Reading-Writing Connections: From Theory to Practice

Reading-Writing Connections: From Theory to Practiceis an extraordinary language arts methods text that enables elementary and middle school teachers to create classroom environments where all students can become lifelong readers and writers. Focusing on developmentally appropriate methods and materials, this remarkably readable book empowers a new generation of teachers to integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking in K-8 classrooms. Heller's highly accessible writing style makes this book suitable as a primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in language arts, reading, writing, and literacy

 

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Times Creative English for Primary Schools

Times Creative English is filled with interesting language skills activities specially put together for primary schools. Students will enjoy earning new vocabulary,  improving their comprehension skills and gaining nformation about things around them through a variety of word puzzles, quizzes and exercises. The book meets the need of students looking for stimulating written exercises.

Identification of Learning Disabilities: Research To Practice

Identification of Learning Disabilities: Research to Practice is the remarkable product of a learning disabilities summit conference convened by the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) in August 2001 and the activities following that summit. Both the conference and this book were seen as important preludes to congressional reauthorization of the historic Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) scheduled for 2002 and subsequent decision making surrounding implementation.

Emotional Literacy at the Heart of the School Ethos

Ideal for teachers, psychologists and lecturers wishing to implement a practical, whole-school training program to help practitioners nurture children's emotional development. Many exercises included.

Transferring Learning to Behavior: Using the Four Levels to Improve Performance

Since its creation in 1959, Donald Kirkpatrick's four-level model for evaluating training programs - reaction, learning, behavior, and results - has become the most widely used approach to training evaluation in the corporate, government, and academic worlds. However, trainers today are feeling increased pressure to prove whether instruction is worth its cost. And calculating and presenting results (Step 4) becomes tricky when, despite training, workers aren't fulfilling Step 3: applying what they've learned to their behavior. This book takes on this age-old challenge, first examining why learned concepts don't make it into practice, then offering solutions that will work in the real world.