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Offers teachers a new way to energize the teaching of writing while also meeting Common Core State Standards. The author draws on his unique background in education and media to provide this all-in-one resource to help teachers use the versatility of scriptwriting to motivate students and support literacy skills across the disciplines.

Examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities using data from 47 countries around the globe. This work compares and contrasts the United States with two high-achieving countries - Japan and Australia - that have implemented very different approaches to improving teacher quality.

Focuses on the personal experience of teachers and the practical realities of teaching, revealing how our nation's educators grapple with issues of race, class, gender in their daily lives. This title is suitable for progressive thinkers and those interested in how social justice theories translate to the real world.

Traces America's faith in the capacity of public education to solve various economic, and political problems civil from before the civil war up to the No Child Left Behind legislation. This book discusses how this faith in education makes it difficult for Americans to think realistically about the capacities and limitations of public schooling.

Formative and design experiments represent a methodology suited for educational research in general and literacy research in particular. This work addresses questions like what is the origin of formative and design experiments and how do they compare to other approaches to investigating interventions in classrooms?

A guide to behavior management for teachers, parents, and other caregivers. Starting with infancy, this work explains that typical daily routines are prime opportunities for parents and childcare providers to introduce limits to very young children. It also takes a look at ways to guide the behavior of preschoolers and kindergartners.

This work is about a group of experienced K-12 teachers who took teacher research to another level. Their story is not only about teachers working together to improve their own teaching, but also about their research reverberated throughout their schools.

A set of stories about how something as simple as ordinary talk among teachers can become a powerful medium for teacher learning and professional development. It draws on the work of eight groups of teachers in the US and Israel who met in conversation over a period of four to five years.

Essays discuss works by Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Audre Lorde, as well as Afro-American women's fiction, poetry, and biographies in general, and the place of African American women in literature. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Each book contains a total of 60 short reading selections (fiction and nonfiction) followed by eight multiple choice questions. Scoring will help estimate your student's reading level, reading comprehension, and test-taking ability. The Instructional Benefits of McCall-Crabbs: Supplement basal reading programs Motivate and challenge even the most reluctant readers Allow for individualization with different grade level books Monitor reading progress over time Provide a graded informal reading inventory Practice test-taking skills Provide "power-work," progressively timed or untimed Oral reading practice Useful in adult education, ESL, and special education Book A: Grades 2-4Book B: Grades 3-5Book C: Grades 4-6Book D: Grades 5-7Book E: Grades 6-8Book F: Grades 7-12Teachers' Manual/Answer Key is for all books in the series.Student Answer Sheet is available as a free download.

Offers strategies for planning and presenting vocabulary instruction and for monitoring children's word learning progress, along with helpful appendices that provide specific guidance on which words to teach. Each chapter includes ideas to support home-school connections, recognising the important role parents play in children's vocabulary development.

Examines how teaching media in high school English and social studies classrooms can address major challenges in our educational system. The authors argue that, in addition to providing underserved youth with access to 21st-century learning technologies, critical media education will help improve academic literacy achievement in city schools.

Brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of hip-hop based education in science, social studies, college composition, teacher education, and other fields.

This resource for secondary school ELA and ELL teachers brings together compelling insights into student experiences, current research, and strategies for building an inclusive writing curriculum. It expands the current conversation on the literacy needs of adolescent English learners by focusing on their writing approaches, their texts, and their needs as student writers.