Author: E.D. Hirsch, Jr.
Publisher: Delta
Published: 2009-10-14
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0307567214
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The invaluable grade-by-grade guide (kindergarten—sixth) is designed to help parents and teachers select some of the best books for children. Books to Build On recommends: • for kindergartners, lively collections of poetry and stories, such as The Children’s Aesop, and imaginative alphabet books such as Bill Martin, Jr.’s Chicka Chicka Boom Boom and Lucy Micklewait’s I Spy: An Alphabet in Art • for first graders, fine books on the fine arts, such as Ann Hayes’s Meet the Orchestra, the hands-on guide My First Music Book, and the thought-provoking Come Look with Me series of art books for children • for second graders, books that open doors to world cultures and history, such as Leonard Everett Fisher’s The Great Wall of China and Marcia Willaims’s humorous Greek Myths for Young Children • for third graders, books that bring to life the wonders of ancient Rome, such as Living in Ancient Rome, and fascinating books about astronomy, such as Seymour Simon’s Our Solar System • for fourth graders, engaging books on history, including Jean Fritz’s Shh! We're Writing the Constitution, and many books on Africa, including the stunningly illustrated story of Sundiata: Lion King of Mali • for fifth graders, a version of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream that retains much of the original language but condenses the play for reading or performance by young students, and Michael McCurdy’s Escape from Slavery: The Boyhood of Frederick Douglass • for sixth graders, an eloquent retelling of the Iliad and the Odyssey, and the well-written American history series, A History of US . . . and many, many more!
Author: Tracey Williams
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2016-10-29
Total Pages: 471
ISBN-13: 1491798025
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Offering a one-of-a kind teaching resource for Texas history teachers, The Big Resource Guide to Teaching and Learning Texas History, by author and teacher Tracey Williams, includes everything to make Texas history come alive in the classroom. The teaching units are aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and contain activities, assignments, and assessments to help instructors teach the state curriculum. The Big Resource Guide to Teaching and Learning Texas History covers all major topics in Texas history and offers a graphic organizer to help students record the important details of the topics. This resource includes essential Texas history vocabulary, cross-curricular vocabulary, and end-of-chapter assessments. This guide helps prepare students for assessments, and it also aligns with English language arts, offering reading and writing activities. An engaging resource, it allows students to collaborate with their peers, be creative, investigate subject matter, solve problems, and have fun while learning.
Author: Richard Dean Kellough
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching is a practical, comprehensive, and concise methods book designed to engage readers in "hands-on" and "minds-on" learning about effective teaching. A four-part organization covers an orientation to elementary school teaching and learning; planning for instruction; strategies, aids, media, and resources for effective instruction; assessment and professional development. A new chapter on elementary school children discusses their development and their diversity -- and specific strategies for working with them.
Author: Angela L. Carrasquillo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-15
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1135524378
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First Published in 1994. Educators will welcome this cohesive and comprehensive volume on the research and practice of teaching English as a second language (TESOL). The author, director of the TESOL program at Fordham University Graduate School of Education, provides a holistic view of the field-its practical and philosophical considerations. Of particular interest is the coverage of such new research areas as ESL literacy, cultural literacy, thinking in a second language (TSL), and pragmatic writing.
Author: Richard Dean Kellough
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780130984135
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Practical and thorough, this engaging resource guide truly practices what it preaches: hands-on, activities-rich, research-based, performance-driven teaching. Coverage integrates the best ideas from a broad spectrum of instructional approaches into an eclectic teaching model that the author characterizes as "multilevel instruction." This is truly one of the most comprehensive books on the market today, made even better in this latest edition. Coverage includes the relationship among curriculum standards, assessment, and high-stakes testing, what's need to establish and maintain a supportive learning environment, and updated information on outstanding school programs. For professionals in the field of teaching.
Author: Richard D. Kellough
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780137050178
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Practical and thorough, this engaging resource guide truly practices what it preaches: hands-on, activities-rich, research-based, performance-driven teaching. With its hallmark practicality, A Resource Guide for Teaching K-12 uses case studies, sample units with lessons, opportunities for practice and feedback, and activities to equip future teachers with numerous examples of best practices, current research findings, and proven teaching strategies. This is truly one of the most comprehensive texts on the market today, made even better with its organization designed around the decision-making phases of instruction.
Author: Richard Dean Kellough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780023625619
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This concise resource guide uses an engaging writing style that helps readers learn, practice, discuss, implement, and evaluate a broad spectrum of effective teaching skills and strategies. The central strength is its practical approach, which is supported by numerous hand-on activities, opportunities for practice, case studies, and sample lessons. Offers an active learning approach incorporating numerous exercises throughout the book. Provides more than 100 ideas for motivating lessons, interdisciplinary teaching, transcultural studies, community service learning, and student projects. Covers best practices and exemplary school programs. Includes instructional scenarios and classroom vignettes. For educators and school administrators.
Author: Kimberly Rena Sheffield-Gibbons
Publisher:
Published: 2001-06
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 9780759632882
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Entertaining rhythmic expressions to comfort the mind, body and soul. Reflections that assist in living a sacred life. Guaranteed you will find spiritual evolvement of the divine mind
Author: Patricia L. Roberts
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
Published: 2010-03-24
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780137039463
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Resource Guide for Elementary School Teaching is a practical, comprehensive, and concise methods text designed to engage readers in “hands-on” and “minds-on” learning about effective teaching. Each chapter contains an abundance of application exercises on perforated pages that provide opportunities to practice what is learned and to reflect on the progress teachers are making toward their professional competence. Its rich, practical, timely topics include planning, class management (including culturally responsive classrooms), teaching strategies, integrated technology/media, assessment, and more. The user-friendly format presents readers with a valuable resource that transcends its use in college coursework alone by offering strategies that can be easily applied in elementary classrooms, and its practical approach provides hands-on activities, exercises, and strategies for student teaching and field experiences.