Gifts from the Heart: Simple ways to make your family's Christmas more meaningful!
Are you overwhelmed by the frantic commercialism of our modern Christmas? Do you long for a more meaningful celebration? Gifts from the Heart contains hundreds of simple ideas that will help you create a warmer, more loving celebration focused on sharing and giving. Parents, grandparents, early childhood educators, teachers, and youth group leaders will love the imaginative ideas in this book.
The best way to understand text is to think and talk about it. This NEW professional guide defines what purposeful talk is, why it is important, and how it increases comprehension. Students will be empowered to have meaningful discussions about texts as they implement the effective strategies modeled in this book. Research-based strategies promote building meaningful conversations with students Model lessons from real classrooms demonstrate how to utilize these effective approaches to get students thinking and talking about text Support is provided for teachers to design lessons and think through essential instructional elements that will ensure successful implementation and gradually release responsibility to students
When designing, architects are responding to and creating a relationship between identity, culture and architectural style. This book discusses whether the extent of the use of glass facades has increased, or indeed enhanced, the creation of meaningful place-making, thereby creating a cultural identity of 'place'.
