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This book provides a detailed and comprehensive design of a new second language literacy pedagogy and the results of implementing this pedagogy in different contexts in order to demonstrate that it is possible to address some long-standing second language (L2) curriculum and literacy development challenges. The author clearly explains the theory behind Vygotskian Sociocultural Theory of Mind and Systemic Functional Linguistics and how they can inform...
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Popular media has become a common means by which students understand both the present and the past. Consequently, more teachers are using various forms of popular culture as pedagogical tools in the history classroom. With their emphasis on issues such as drug and alcohol abuse, sex, race, gender, and violence, social problem films, or "message movies," offer a compelling look at the eras in which they were made. In order to facilitate the use of...
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Do social and emotional challenges impact your work with children and young people?
Such challenges can no longer be treated as simply the difficulties of individual children. They are systemic. Young people's meaningful participation is now recognised as a strong foundation for thriving, engaged and inclusive communities - and key to wellbeing and learning. Yet there is still a way to go to take children's authentic participation from a 'good idea'...
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Blackline masters for use with junior high school students with special needs. The sheets give students the tools to be able to talk about and understand language development. The activities will help students to deconstruct language, and through this, to improve their own use of language. Students will practise: building sentences; identifying the subject and predicate of sentences; picking out verbs; getting the tense right; writing adjectives,...
2105) The Homeschooling Parent Teaches Math! Bringing Math to the Math-Averse (Parents and Kids Both!)
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We all worry about our kids learning math. Even if the kids are in school, there's always a concern.Sometimes it's about the kid's concern… sometimes it's about their teacher's concern (parent-teacher or otherwise).But a lot of the time it's about US.It's about our own math-phobias – those 'fears, dislikes, or aversions' that we picked up from our own math experiences and that we inadvertently pass on to our kids. We don't want them to be afraid...
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***This book was created with the listener in mind. Purchase the audiobook version of this book for the best and most effective learning experience!***Learning Spanish can be a daunting experience. Most people start learning a new language in formal classes or try by stalking apps to learn how to speak in Spanish without any positive results.
Through this book you will learn Conversational Spanish Dialogues For Beginners through lessons that will...
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This slim and focused guide to understanding and analyzing perspective in drawing was written by T. Heaton Cooper, a longtime instructor at the Cleveland School of Art. It consists of 50 examples: every left-hand page features a graphic representation of the written descriptions on the opposite page, providing an improved understanding of the concepts via visual examples. Discussions and directions on foreshortening and shadows in relation to perspective...
2108) Copperplate Calligraphy
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There is no need for copper or plates to achieve the distinctive calligraphic script of eighteenth-century Europe: just a pen, ink, and this comprehensive workbook will do. Master calligrapher Dick Jackson explains the basic strokes for almost all letters of the copperplate alphabet. Simple instructions and examples introduce the swirls, flourishes, strikings, and thick and thin strokes that make copperplate calligraphy a source of pleasure for the...
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Raising, teaching or mentoring boys? Create a Success Mindset, build Self Confidence, raise Self Esteem and teach the most important Life Skills by focusing on the ONE thing that drives all other results.
Developed over 27 years with over 3,000 boys at a unique summer camp, this effective approach has more than 60 years of results to prove it works and strategies to use right now in everyday situations. Effective even when, time and opportunity are...
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The Atlas of rural protocols in the American Midwest and the Argentine Pampas is structured along eight systems of organization: transport and infrastructure, land subdivision, agricultural production, water management, storage and maintenance, human habitation, animal management, land management. Each of these systems possesses a number of organizational types, material components, normative relationships, and spectra of performance, which become...
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L'immersion française est née dans les années 1960 dans une école primaire en banlieue de Montréal afin de répondre aux besoins des enfants anglophones appelés à vivre dans le nouveau contexte francophone du Québec. Si elle s'est rapidement répandue dans les établissements primaires et secondaires à travers le Canada, en revanche elle est aujourd'hui encore pratiquement inexistante au niveau universitaire. Graham Fraser, le Commissaire...
2112) Let's Talk Sex & STDs
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There comes a time when every person has to learn about sex; typically, students learn within their middle school years about sex education. Unfortunately, by then they have been, influenced by others with the wrong information, or have heard rumors that are mostly untrue. Let's Talk Sex and STDs: The Student Edition is here to lay all of the misleading information and stories to rest and provide easy to understand facts and guidelines about sex.
This...
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In July 2011, the ASQ Education Division held its first Advancing the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Agenda in Education, the Workplace, and Society Conference at the University of Wisconsin–Stout. This publication is a selection of papers and workshops from this groundbreaking conference. The ideas presented here will help other educators and policy makers to develop their own innovative high-impact ideas for inspiring...
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Souhaiteriez-vous pouvoir relire votre travail et vos courriels deux fois plus vite qu'auparavant? Pensez au temps que vous pourriez sauver...
Découvrez les secrets des professionnels pour lire plus vite que quiconque!
Avec des décennies de stratégies testées, cet ebook vous montrera le moyen le plus rapide et le plus efficace d'augmenter votre vitesse de lecture jusqu'à 2 fois plus vite en quelques heures! Vous apprendrez comment améliorer...
2115) Super Hammy Is Cooking
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Look at Super Hammy, he is an amazing cook! Super Hammy cooks spaghetti!
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By equipping teachers with the tools they need to communicate effectively with colleagues, parents, and administrators, this handbook prepares them to deal successfully with and understand the dynamics of a variety of work-related situations. Especially helpful for those new to the field, this guide teaches the skills to build effective communication, tailor messages to fit their recipients, and interact with difficult people and under pressure. Using...
2117) The W Book
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“The W Book” is a collection of 52 poems, all beginning with the letter W. The Wish, The Wager, The Wart, The Witch. You name it. Poetry that is based on selected Words that all begin with the 23rd letter of the alphabet-W! One poem for each Week of the year. (Or are there 53? Count them to be sure, my dear.) Word play at its best, for those who love a good bit of Wit and Whimsy in their lives. But don't be fooled. Some of the poems are serious,...
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Early childhood educators have the power to help all children learn to respect themselves and others. Creating Diversity-Rich Environments for Young Children is an easy-to-use guide that shows how early childhood professionals can create a positive and inclusive environment for children of all cultures.
The newest addition in the Redleaf Press Quick Guide series includes elements of the National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC)...
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Best-selling author Randi Stone brings together a collection of best classroom practices by award-winning teachers from schools throughout the United States to inspire new and experienced middle school teachers with time-tested ideas.
Best Practices for Middle School Classrooms is packed with ready-to-go lessons and units written by teachers who have used these ideas successfully in their own classrooms. Each lesson or strategy includes recommended...
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Leadership takes on a tone of urgency when we are struggling for justice. At the same time, the right to lead — the agency to embrace a leadership identity — can also feel more distant when we are marginalized by the dominant society. For bilingual education teachers working with immigrant communities, the development of critical consciousness, pride in the cultural and linguistic resources of the bilingual community, the vocabulary to name and...