Download or read book Guppies in Tuxedos written by Marvin Terban and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2008-08-18 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trace the origins of more than 100 eponymous words—words derived from the names of people and places. What food was first cooked up in Hamburg, Germany? Hamburgers What country is named after the Italian sailor Amerigo Vespucci? America What do you call people and places whose names become words? Eponyms! Meet the people and places behind more than 100 eponymous words and read the fascinating stories of why words were created for them. What would be the meaning of a word named after you?
Download or read book Guppies in Tuxedos Funny Eponyms written by Marvin Terban and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the origins of more than 100 eponymous words--words derived from the names of people or places. For example "sandwich" is an eponymous word from the eponym, Earl of Sandwich, the man who invented sandwiches.
Download or read book Literacy Assessment and Intervention for Classroom Teachers written by Beverly DeVries and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourth edition of this comprehensive resource helps future and practicing teachers recognize and assess literacy problems, while providing practical, effective intervention strategies to help every student succeed. The author thoroughly explores the major components of literacy, providing an overview of pertinent research, suggested methods and tools for diagnosis and assessment, intervention strategies and activities, and technology applications to increase students' skills. Discussions throughout focus on the needs of English learners, offering appropriate instructional strategies and tailored teaching ideas to help both teachers and their students. Several valuable appendices include assessment tools, instructions and visuals for creating and implementing the book's more than 150 instructional strategies and activities, and other resources.
Download or read book Literacy Assessment and Intervention for Classroom Teachers written by Beverly A. DeVries and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth edition of this comprehensive resource helps future and practicing teachers recognize and assess literacy problems, while providing practical, effective intervention strategies to help every student succeed. DeVries thoroughly explores the major components of literacy, offering an overview of pertinent research, suggested methods and tools for diagnosis and assessment, intervention strategies and activities, and technology applications to increase students' skills. Updated to reflect the needs of teachers in increasingly diverse classrooms, the fifth edition addresses scaffolding for English language learners, and offers appropriate instructional strategies and tailored teaching ideas to help both teachers and their students. Several valuable appendices include assessment tools, instructions and visuals for creating and implementing the book's more than 150 instructional strategies and activities, and other resources. New to the Fifth Edition: Up-to-date and in line with ILA, CCSS, and most state and district literacy standards, this edition also addresses the important shifts and evolution of these standards. New chapter on Language Development, Speaking, and Listening covers early literacy, assessment, and interventions. New intervention strategies and activities are featured in all chapters and highlight a stronger technology component. Updated Companion Website with additional tools, resources, and examples of teachers using assessment strategies.
Download or read book Spelling Gr 5 A Complete Strategy Based Program written by and published by On The Mark Press. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Your Foot s on My Feet written by Marvin Terban and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the plural of 90 irregular nouns, such as mouse and mice, in humorous rhymes and tongue twisters.
Download or read book Stretching Students Vocabulary written by Karen D'Angelo Bromley and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents more than seventy strategies for building third- through eighth-grade students' vocabularies using sound, context, structure, and word investigation, and includes reproducibles and related Web addresses.
Download or read book Mad as a Wet Hen written by Marvin Terban and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1987 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrates and explains over 100 common English idioms, in categories including animals, body parts, and colors.
Download or read book Bringing Words to Life written by Isabel L. Beck and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2002-03-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exciting and engaging vocabulary instruction can set students on the path to a lifelong fascination with words. This book provides a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. The authors emphasize instruction that offers rich information about words and their uses and enhances students' language comprehension and production. Teachers are guided in selecting words for instruction; developing student-friendly explanations of new words; creating meaningful learning activities; and getting students involved in thinking about, using, and noticing new words both within and outside the classroom. Many concrete examples, sample classroom dialogues, and exercises for teachers bring the material to life. Helpful appendices include suggestions for trade books that help children enlarge their vocabulary and/or have fun with different aspects of words.
Download or read book Vocabulary Instruction for Academic Success written by Hallie Kay Yopp and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on current research , this user-friendly resource provides vocabulary development strategies that are grouped together according to purpose. Key features of the book include an explanation on how students acquire and develop their vocabularies, the academic necessity of a wide vocabulary, and important approaches on how best to help students build their vocabularies. Practical ideas, tips, and easy-to-implement strategies for vocabulary instruction include how to foster wide reading to build vocabulary; create a word-friendly environment; select specific words to be taught; and use literature to teach specific words.
Download or read book Too Hot to Hoot written by Marvin Terban and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2008-01-21 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of progressively harder to guess palindrome riddles.
Download or read book Punching the Clock written by Marvin Terban and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1990 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces and explains more than 100 expressions which mean something different than the separate words in the group. For example: raise the roof, hold your horses, and beat around the bush.
Download or read book Mindful of Words written by Kathy Ganske and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This treasured resource for upper-elementary and middle school teachers--now in a revised second edition with a new lesson-planning framework--presents ready-to-use activities to advance students' spelling and vocabulary knowledge, including academic vocabulary. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume provides over 120 reproducible word sorts, organized by spelling stages, plus additional reproducible forms, word lists, and activities in the appendices. Kathy Ganske's research-based approach emphasizes cognitive engagement, discussion, and active learning. The book features firsthand tips from experienced teachers, strategies for building morphological awareness, "Did You Know?" sections with absorbing stories about specific words, discussions of idioms, and literature suggestions. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible appendix materials. New to This Edition *Chapter on researcher perspectives--noted scholars translate cutting-edge findings into practical teaching ideas. *Greatly expanded content on academic vocabulary, including Ganske's SAIL (survey, analyze, interpret, link) framework for instruction and a reproducible SAIL lesson guide. *Increased attention to English learners, with two new appendices on Spanish–English vocabulary connections. *Word sort activities feature updated instructions and many new examples. See also Ganske's Word Journeys, Second Edition: Assessment-Guided Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction, which provides a comprehensive framework for assessing and building word knowledge, and Word Sorts and More, Second Edition: Sound, Pattern, and Meaning Explorations K–3, which presents word study activities for the primary grades.
Download or read book Reading Assessment and Instruction for All Learners written by Jeanne Shay Schumm and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2017-02-13 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Weaving together the latest knowledge and best practices for teaching children to read, this indispensable text and professional resource provides a complete guide to differentiated instruction for diverse learners. Uniquely integrative, the book places the needs of English language learners and students with disabilities front and center instead of treating them as special topics. Accessible chapters on each of the core components of literacy clearly demonstrate how to link formal and informal assessment to evidence-based instruction. Special features include Research Briefs, Tech Tips, Internet Resources, Reflection and Action Questions, and dozens of reproducible student activities and assessment tools.
Download or read book Easy Mini Lessons for Building Vocabulary written by Laura Robb and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocabulary-building exercises for grades 4 through 8.
Download or read book Funny You Should Ask written by Marvin Terban and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1992 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abundant cache of ideas for using words and wordplay to create engaging riddles and jokes.
Download or read book School Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
