Download or read book The Exploding Frog and Other Fables from Aesop written by Aesop and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Exploding Frog and Other Fables from Aesop written by John B. McFarland and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and illustrations retell thirty-nine of Aesop's fables.
Download or read book StoryCraft written by Martha Seif Simpson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While storytelling is a great favorite of preschoolers, many elementary age children are more drawn to crafts and other activities. StoryCraft is an award-winning library program that combines storytelling with crafts in an exciting and engaging activity for children in first through third grades. Each one-hour program includes storytelling, a craft, movement, activities, music, and discussion. This collection of StoryCraft programs presents 50 fun and educational theme-based sessions. Each includes suggestions for promotion, music, crafts, activities, and stories. The sessions also include bibliographies to help direct young readers toward additional reading, as well as diagrams, detailed instructions, and supply lists for the crafts. The themes range from a Jungle Safari to Math Mayhem to a Western Roundup, all encouraging children to enjoy reading in a variety of ways. Each session has plenty of suggestions, so that the program can be customized. Helpful Hints for implementing the program can help any librarian, volunteer, or parent turn a ho-hum storytime into a dazzling StoryCraft time.
Download or read book Fabulous Fables written by Linda K Garrity and published by Good Year Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive guide contains the texts of 33 important fables from the Western and Eastern traditions, explains the concepts behind the fables, and suggests teaching strategies to use with youngsters. A wide variety of enrichment activities, games, and reproducible sheets extend the fables through drama, writing, arts, and crafts. Includes a detailed bibliography of books and fable collections for further reading. Grades 2-4. Illustrated.
Download or read book Good Books Matter written by Larry Swartz and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research on the features that make children's books appealing and appropriate, this valuable teacher resource offers guidance on selecting books, strategies for specific grade levels, suggestions for extension, and tips for assessment. This teacher-friendly book is organized around the major genres — traditional literature, picture books, nonfiction, poetry, and multicultural texts — that will inspire young readers. Throughout the book, teachers will find suggestions for using literature to implement shared reading, reading aloud, and response strategies with emergent, developing, and independent readers. This comprehensive book is rooted in the belief that educators must consider and offer a wide range of choice to ensure that students read "good" books. It argues that the choices children make about what they read should be governed by their interests and desire to learn; not by a grade or reading level.
Download or read book The Isherwood Century written by James J. Berg and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best known for Goodbye to Berlin -- the inspiration for the Tony and Oscar award-winning musical Cabaret -- Christopher Isherwood has always been considered both a literary and a gay pioneer. That is truer now than ever. Readers of his plays, novels, and diaries continue to discover Isherwood's lasting contribution to twentieth-century culture, literature, autobiographical fiction, and memoir, to gay rights, and to twentieth-century culture.
Download or read book Bookpeople written by Sharron L. McElmeel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1992-06-15 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen units focus on authors who speak about their ethnic heritage through their books and those who write or illustrate multicultural materials. Each unit includes a full-size photograph and a brief biography containing bits of background information that will fascinate students. Activities that reinforce the multicultural theme and bibliographies of related books and films are also featured. Ideal for the media center and the integrated curriculum. Grades 1-6.
Download or read book The Queer Encyclopedia of Music Dance and Musical Theater written by Claude Summers and published by Cleis Press Start. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aficionados of music, dance, opera, and musical theater will relish this volume featuring over 200 articles showcasing composers, singers, musicians, dancers, and choreographers across eras and styles. Read about Hildegard of Bingen, whose Symphonia expressed both spiritual and physical desire for the Virgin Mary, and George Frideric Handel, who not only created roles for castrati but was behind the Venetian opera's preoccupations with gender ambiguity. Discover Alban Berg’s Lulu, opera’s first openly lesbian character. And don’t forget Kiss Me Kate, the hit 1948 Broadway musical: written by Cole Porter, married though openly gay; directed by John C. Wilson, Noël Coward's ex-lover; and featuring Harold Lang, who had affairs with Leonard Bernstein and Gore Vidal. No single volume has ever achieved the breadth of this scholarly yet eminently readable compendium. It includes overviews of genres as well as fascinating biographical entries on hundreds of figures such as Peter Tchaikovsky, Maurice Ravel, Sergei Diaghilev, Bessie Smith, Aaron Copland, Stephen Sondheim, Alvin Ailey, Rufus Wainwright, and Ani DiFranco.
Download or read book Letters to J D Salinger written by Chris Kubica and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite J. D. Salinger’s many silences—from the publication of The Catcher in the Rye to his absence from the public eye after 1965 to his death in 2010—the unforgettable characters of his novel and short stories continue to speak to generations of readers and writers. Letters to J. D. Salinger includes more than 150 personal letters addressed to Salinger from well-known writers, editors, critics, journalists, and other luminaries, as well as from students, teachers, and readers around the world, some of whom had just discovered Salinger for the first time. Their voices testify to the lasting impression Salinger’s ideas and emotions have made on so many diverse lives.
Download or read book Book Links written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Twice Upon a Time written by Judy Sierra and published by [Bronx, NY] : H.W. Wilson. This book was released on 1989 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of twenty traditional folktales for use with children between the ages of eight and twelve with instructions of how to do creative dramatics and storytelling for each story.
Download or read book Reason to Read written by Cathy Collins Block and published by Innovative Learning. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivate students in grades 4-8 to transfer reading/comprehension, metacognition, and thinking skills to their daily lives. All of the lessons in this resource book combine explicit strategic instruction with a choice of objectives, activities, and literature.
Download or read book Children s Literature in the Elementary School written by Charlotte S. Huck and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1997 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Book Review Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Fifty Fables of La Fontaine written by Jean de La Fontaine and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents fifty verse fables by seventeenth-century poet Jean de La Fontaine in side-by-side French and English.