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More Mirrors in the Classroom: Using Urban Childrens Literature to Increase Literacy is the first book in the Kids Like Us series. It includes research summaries, guidelines for text selection, and a step-by-step guide to increasing the cultural relevance of literacy instruction with urban childrens literature.

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More Mirrors in the Classroom: Using Urban Childrens Literature to Increase Literacy is the first book in the Kids Like Us series. It includes research summaries, guidelines for text selection, and a step-by-step guide to increasing the cultural relevance of literacy instruction with urban childrens literature.

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This resource text contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. Organized around the same format, each section includes a plot summary, explores themes and literary concepts, and provides reading and vocabulary lists.

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These dynamic literature-based activities will help teachers and school librarians energize the entire science curriculum and implement national standards. Chapters cover: Life Science, Space Science, Earth Science, Physical Science, and the Human Body for students in grades K-4.

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Based on 30 quality works of children's literature, each chapter includes information on appropriate vocabulary, concepts, applications, and a wide variety of activities, including hands-on and inquiry-based topics, games, puzzles, word searches, and so on.

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These dynamic literature-based activities will help you energize the social studies curriculum and implement national (and many of state) standards.

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Written for children reading at first and second grade levels, this readers theatre book uses Mother Goose rhymes as its basis, making it especially valuable to teachers and librarians working on building fluency skills in their beginning readers.

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Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers can thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant aspect of the texts. Each chapter provides practical activities for students to engage with loss through writing, projects, and prompts.

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Moving Beyond Personal Loss to Societal Grieving considers how secondary English language arts teachers can thoughtfully teach pieces of literature in their classrooms in which large-scale deaths are a significant aspect of the texts. Each chapter provides practical activities for students to engage with loss through writing, projects, and prompts.

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Arguing technicism fixates on methods and techniques at the expense of larger social issues in education, this book advocates a critical and liberal approach to teacher education through examples from the authors studies with critical teacher education within the limiting space of Turkeys standardized technicist teacher education curricula.

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Includes literature-based activities that help you energize the entire social studies curriculum and implement US national (and state) standards.

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Unlike most readers theatre titles, the 36 scripts in this book introduce young readers to classic authors like Louisa May Alcott and Mark Twain while they have fun and improve their reading fluency.

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Born during the turbulent years of the 1960s, multicultural education has attempted to help students acquire a more sophisticated understanding of the pluralistic populations of the United States.

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Introduce your students to other countries and cultures through the traditional folk and fairy tales in these engaging readers theatre scripts. Valuable as supplements to multicultural units, these scripts actively involve students in the subject, and they promote oral reading and presentation skills.

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If you're searching for research activities or multicultural topics for a diverse student population, this is the book for you. Cultural searches are related to Hispanics, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, and other U.S. immigrant groups.

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Multiple Perspectives on Mathematics Teaching and Learning offers a collection of chapters that take a new look at mathematics education.

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Multiple Perspectives on Mathematics Teaching and Learning offers a collection of chapters that take a new look at mathematics education.

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This book fully addresses the richness and uniqueness of the music education in the Caribbean and Latin America.

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This book fully addresses the richness and uniqueness of the music education in the Caribbean and Latin America.

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Arranged by subject area and topics within disciplines, the annotations describe the works and provide information on format and media, musical arrangement, individual song titles (for recorded material), and grade appropriateness in addition to standard bibliographic information.

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How do children learn, or learn about, music How do national cultures and education systems affect children's musical learning This book combines information, analysis and evaluation from 15 countries to answer these questions, providing a global perspective on musical education and development.

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This authoritative volume puts the schooling of Native American children in the broader context of the country's educational agenda and demonstrates how Native American learning continues to be a challenge to minority education in the United States.