Language, Culture, and Teaching: Critical Perspectives (Language, Culture, and Teaching Series)
Distinguished multiculturalist Sonia Nieto speaks directly to current and future teachers in this thoughtful integration of a selection of her key writings with creative pedagogical features. Offering information, insights, and motivation to teach students of diverse cultural, racial, and linguistic backgrounds, this text is intended for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level students and professional development courses.
This math activities book is designed as a resource for helping preschoolers learn about numbers. Each book features 101 teaching ideas related to the theme of its title. The skill-building activities in this book invite children to explore numbers, number recognition and counting. Both cooperative and individual learning are encouraged through the hands-on developmentally appropriate activities. These activities have been correlated to state standards and span multiple curriculum areas including math, language development, science, art, and music.
A photocopiable resource book of vocabulary activities. This resource book of vocabulary practice activities enables teachers to teach vocabulary communicatively in the classroom. The book provides a variety of stimulating activities which require learners to actively use the target vocabulary. It develops learning skills, helping learners to become more efficient in organising, storing and remembering new vocabulary. It is easy to use with clear teacher's notes on the left hand pages and facing photocopiable worksheets on the right.
SmartHelp for Good ‘n’ Angry Kids provides the reader with an innovative tool for determining a child’s individual learning strengths, and for pairing this information with specific, carefully crafted activities that teach the child about anger and its appropriate expression.
The author offers a brief overview of U.S. history from the Louisiana Purchase to the Census Bureau's 1890 declaration that the frontier was "closed," giving readers an idea of the people and the times, including mapping, the wagon trains, the hardships, the railroad, and home life. Each chapter comprises a general discussion, numerous illustrations, sidebars documenting important people and topics, a glossary of specialized terms, and one or two activities related to the chapter's theme.