California Math Triumphs is an intensive intervention resource for students who are two or more years below grade level. The series provides step-by-step intervention, vocabulary support, and data-driven decision making to help students succeed in high school mathematics. Designed to support students needing the most intensive intervention, Math Triumphs: Place Value and Basic Number Skills helps build mastery of the foundational skills from prior grades that are prerequisites to the current grade level. Uniquely scaffolded practice problems provide support by breaking down each skill into the simplest understanding.
In The Plain English Approach to Business Writing, Edward Bailey--who spent twenty years working in the bastions of bureaucratese--offers readers a powerful new communications tool. Now there's help for anyone who's ever fallen prey to businessese, academese, legalese, or any other "ese" when faced with a blank memo pad.
Focuses on listening and speaking skills for students who have studied grammar but lack confidence in speaking. Pronunciation Focus in each unit provides practical pointers for students. This new edition features all new photographs and illustrations. Revised units now have more speaking activities. New vocabulary support helps students to complete the tasks. NEW Student Audio CD in the Student Book provides students with listening practice outside the classroom.
Character Education: A Book Guide for Teachers, Librarians, and Parents
This book provides a fresh way of teaching children the importance of values and good character. It is a gold mine for educators and parents looking for material they can use in discussions regarding character traits they want to help young citizens develop. Grades K-5 (adaptable for higher grades).
Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say
Fourteen-year-old Eric is plagued by thoughts that germs on his hands could be making his family sick. Kelly, age 8, feels distressed if she can't count her pencils in multiples of four. No one wants to get rid of OCD more than they do--that's why Talking Back to OCD puts the power to beat obsessions and compulsions in their hands. This uniquely designed volume is really two books in one. The first portion of each chapter teaches children and adolescents skills they can use to take charge of the illness.
