Download or read book U S History Through Children s Literature written by Wanda Miller and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-03-15 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allow students to step back in time to experience the thoughts, feelings, dilemmas, and actions of people from history. For each history topic, Miller suggests two titles-one for use with the entire class and one for use with small reading groups. Summaries of the books, author information, activities, and topics for discussion are supplemented with vocabulary lists and ideas for research topics and further reading. This integrated approach makes history meaningful to students and helps them retain historical details and facts.

Download or read book War Comes to Willy Freeman written by James Lincoln Collier and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Willy Freeman's life changes forever when she witnesses her father's death at the hands of the Redcoats and returns home to find that the British have taken her mother as a prisoner to New York City. Willy, disguised as a boy, begins her long search for her mother and luckily finds a haven at the famous Fraunces Tavern. But even with the help of Sam Fraunces and her fellow worker, Horace, Willy knows that to be black, female, and free leaves her open to danger at every turn. What will tomorrow bring?

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Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.

Download or read book Focus on U S History written by Kathy Sammis and published by Walch Publishing. This book was released on 1997 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproducible student activities cover The Revolutionary War, its effects on society, and the evolution of American government.

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Download or read book Teaching Reading written by Rachel L. McCormack and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elementary teachers of reading have one essential goal?to prepare diverse children to be independent, strategic readers in real life. This innovative text helps preservice and inservice teachers achieve this goal by providing knowledge and research-based strategies for teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, all aspects of comprehension, and writing in response to literature. Special features include sample lessons and photographs of literacy-rich classrooms. Uniquely interactive, the text is complete with pencil-and-paper exercises and reproducibles that facilitate learning, making it ideal for course use. Readers are invited to respond to reflection questions, design lessons, and start constructing a professional teaching portfolio.

Download or read book Child Sized History written by Sara L. Schwebel and published by Vanderbilt University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classroom canon of young adult novels in historical context

Download or read book Teaching to Complexity A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content Area Texts written by Cappiello, Mary Ann and published by Shell Education. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As an important tool for instruction and text selection, Teaching to Text Complexity helps teachers learn to evaluate children's and young adult literature and informational text for quality and complexity to support rigorous literacy and content learning. In addition, this timely resource explores how instructional purpose shapes not only the kinds of curricular texts used, but also considers their complexity relative to readers. By offering a framework for text selection, this book helps teachers more deeply understand text complexity in today's standards as well as its importance when building and using text sets in the classroom and reading for different purposes.

Download or read book African American Connecticut written by Frank Andrews Stone and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three hundred years of black affairs in Connecticut are examined in this book. It explains and discusses the changing racial demographics, evolving race relations and civil rights, as well as current issues and possibilities.

Download or read book Great Books for Girls written by Kathleen Odean and published by Random House Digital, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evaluates fiction and nonfiction books featuring girls and women in positive roles, ranking each entry by reading level.

Download or read book Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts Grades 3 5 written by Lesley Mandel Morrow and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 2012-11-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly every state has independently adopted the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), making this practical guide an indispensable resource for grades 3-5 teachers and teachers-in-training. Leading authorities explain each of the English language arts (ELA) standards and vividly show how to implement them. The book is filled with grade-specific classroom vignettes, instructional strategies and activities, sample lesson plans, and discussion questions. Chapters cover the major ELA strands: reading (literature, informational texts, and foundational skills); writing; speaking and listening; and language. Issues of assessment and technology integration are also explored. An appendix includes thematic units for each grade level demonstrating ways to embed CCSS/ELA standards into content-area instruction. See also Teaching with the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, PreK-2.

Download or read book Sequences written by Susan Roman and published by Chicago : American Library Association. This book was released on 1985 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Literary Practices As Social Acts written by Cynthia Lewis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines how the social and cultural contexts of classroom and community shape four classroom practices involving literature - read aloud, peer-led literature discussions, teacher-led literature discussions, & independent reading.

Download or read book Creating and Managing the Literate Classroom written by Suzanne I. Barchers and published by Libraries Unlimited. This book was released on 1990 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grade level: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, p, e, i, t.

Download or read book Childrens Catalog written by H.W. Wilson Company and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1st ed. includes an index to v. 28-36 of St. Nicholas.

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