Creative Comprehension for Elementary Schools is a four-level comprehension series that contains a variety of passages for elementary English classes. The passages cover a wide variety of topics that appeal to young learners and are designed to make reading an enjoyable experience. These passages are exploited with a range of exercise types that focus on the development of reading and writing skills at the elementary level.
JOURNEYS is a totally new K-5 core reading program designed to meet the diverse needs of all students. It includes all the key issues you expect in terms of reading instruction - from comprehension to vocabulary instruction that provides key steps to help students acquire, practice and apply a variety of vocabulary to build readers and writers.
Practical Handbook of School Psychology: Effective Practices for the 21st Century
Bringing together leading authorities, this state-of-the-science handbook delves into all aspects of problem-solving-based school psychology practice. Thirty-four focused chapters present data-based methods for assessment, analysis, intervention, and evaluation, with special attention given to working in a response-to-intervention framework. Tools and guidelines are provided for promoting success in key academic domains: reading, writing, and math. Social-emotional and behavioral skills are thoroughly addressed in chapters ..
Reading Metaphysics: Selected Texts with Interactive Commentary
This collection brings together key contemporary texts in metaphysics and features an interactive commentary which helps readers engage the texts critically and to use them to develop their own views. * Each text is followed by a detailed commentary, setting it in context * Includes questions designed to help readers think hard about what the author is saying and why, to think of objections, and to formulate his or her own views
Exploring the dialogue between psychoanalytic and literary discourses, the authors examine the models of plot, character, and ways of reading which each of these discourses has developed in interpreting Shakespeare. Since Freud's writings on Oedipus and Hamlet, Shakespearean tragedy has been paradigmatic for psychoanalytic theory and criticism. The authors trace the dialogue between psychoanalytic and literary discourses by examining the models of plot, character, and ways of reading which each tradition has developed through its interpretation of Shakespeare.
