Once upon a Time: Fairy Tales in the Library and Language Arts Classroom for Grades 3-6
Use fairy tales in the library and classroom to increase students proficiency in story structure, reading comprehension, writing, and speaking skills, and to foster collaboration with teachers. ·Teach core language arts skills using familiar fairy tales in AASL, IRA/NCTE standards-based, ready-to-use lessons. ·Use materials standard to every library to teach the curriculum, inspire a love of fairy tales, and include English Language Learners (ELL) in meaningful ways. ·Involve students in standards-based learning while they enjoy the charm and intrigue of their favorite fairy tales.
Great care and pride have been taken at each stage of development for Georgia and the American Experience. The textbook is written in a narrative style, richly illustrated, and meets ALL state's standards. All books in the My State History series are arranged in chapters and sections with core skills emphasized in every chapter. Readers will find the textbook is filled with images that create interest and teach. Exercises and activities included in the book are designed to further engage students.
Reading age for native speakers: Middle School students
Challenging the Classroom Standard Through Museum-based Education: School in the Park
School in the Park is an innovative museum-based educational effort to engage students in their community during the school day. Since 1999 several hundred students have been educated each year in museums and the zoo in San Diego. This is more than a field trip, it is changing the way that education is provided. Challenging the Classroom Standard Through Museum-Based Education: School in the Park presents the experience of School in the Park from the perspective of different disciplines oral language, reading, writing, social studies, math, science, and the arts—to determine how students are learning content within museums and the zoo.
A comprehensive and attractively presented 4-colour textbook of surgery aimed primarily at medical students but also of use to junior doctors and surgical technicians. The book has two key features: firstly, it provides students with coverage of every aspect of surgery; secondly, it has been designed and written to be the 'surgical companion' to Kumar & Clark's Clinical Medicine. This new edition will also offer an online version to all purchasers of the book - the first surgical textbook in the UK to make an electronic version available.
This is the first book of a three-level listening and speaking course that has a functional syllabus focusing on everyday language. Students listen to dialogues in the context of common, real-life settings and scenarios, practicing key functional expressions and descriptive language. Students learn to introduce themselves, describe people, things and activities, provide and ask for information, make small talk, ask for and give opinions, make suggestions, etc.
