"Wherever you live, whoever you are, friends are important, all kinds of friends." In the spirit of her classic book, All Kinds of Families, Norma Simon leads us through a celebration of friendship--school friends, family friends, grownup friends, even pet friends! Simple, reassuring and thoughtful, children will recognize themselves--and their friends--on every page.
Building Literacy Through Classroom Discussion: Research-Based Strategies for Developing Critical Readers and Thoughtful Writers in Middle School
Want to help students achieve greater depth of reading, writing, and understanding? This book shows teachers how to facilitate discussions where students share rich, defensible interpretations of literature and solid, reasoned, understandings of any concepts under study.
This book is to be used for home reading with parents and kids starting from very young age. English text is supplemented with Russian translation for the covenience and use of native Russian speakers. It lets plan the studies of a kid depending on their level of English. Family itself is topical and familiar for every kid, moreover it is backed up with concise sentences, bright anf thoughtful pictures and known characters of English from Birth Series, it provides some excellent material for independent work with this very text at home.
Reliable and straightforward, this text has helped thousands of students learn to write well. Jean Wyrick's rhetorically organized STEPS TO WRITING WELL WITH ADDITIONAL READINGS is known for its student-friendly tone and the clear way it presents the basics of essay writing in an easy-to-follow progression of useful lessons and activities. Through straightforward advice and thoughtful assignments, the text gives students the practice they need to approach writing well-constructed essays with confidence.
Education Reconfigured: Culture, Encounter, and Change
Martin’s new educational paradigm reveals that education is too important to be left solely to the professionals; that it is one of the great forces in human society and, as such, deserves the attention and demands the vigilance of every thoughtful person.
