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Have you ever wanted to think of a way for your students to remember world capitals or the rivers in a certain region? Ebbesmeyer's book, Teaching Global Literacy Using Mnemonics, will help you do that and teach the national geography standards as well The book is divided into sections by continents. Each section has a short introduction, suggested annotated reading lists of picture and chapter books to motivate student interest in that geographic area and a mnemonic sentence, rhyme, or story that will help students remember the makeup of the country or continent discussed. The mnemonics differ from the usual, in that they are directly connected to the region, people, or culture being studied. There is a simple map of the region and activities tied to the national standards for geography.Activities focus on ideas to integrate global studies with all other areas of the curriculum and on ways to motivate teachers and students to extend the lessons and create their own ideas.

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The Handy 5 is an effective five-step model that provides a framework for planning learning activities to accommodate frequent and systematic evaluation for the benefit of students' success. ... Read more

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In this comprehensive book you'll receive guidance in helping special education students in grades 3-5 meet the content standards produced by the National Council of Teachers of English and the International Reading Association (1996). With simple and fun ways to promote books, and activities that are both instructionally and emotionally appropriate for students with reading disabilities. This book can also serve as a companion teaching manual to the works of renowned and loved author, Roald Dahl, helping students with genre and author studies. Selections include The Magic Finger and Fantastic Mr. Fox.

· Includes plans for adapting good literature to any classroom setting

· Organized through Bloom's Taxonomy

· Great for teaching reading comprehension strategies and to prepare special needs students for standardized reading tests

· Excellent for use as a college textbook to teach how to modify regular education material for special needs students

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Help children learn coping skills through literature! Includes meaningful lessons and resources to help students deal with special emotional issues.·This book answers the often repeated question, "Is there a children's book I can read in my classroom to give children insight into significant life events?" ·Literature ideas and activities help students cope with real-life situations, such as bullying, that interfere with school·This book will assist educators in guiding and nurturing children's special issues and concerns with outstanding, ready-to-go reading and writing lessons·Includes research-based teaching tips for educators on how to help children deal with their emotions·Provides stimulating, pedagogically sound lessons any teacher or librarian could use to smooth troubled classroom relations and eventsEvery school library needs a copy of this book to share with students and teachers. This professional resource for K-6 educators and parents uses literature with identifiable characters to help children who are facing challenges in their lives. This book contains resources related to classroom situations like bullying, peer acceptance, peer pressure, and being different as well as family situations such as death, divorce, adoption, and sibling rivalry. Use these standards-based reading and writing lessons to address real-life sensitive issues affecting today's students. ... Read more

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Kids Have Problems... How Will You Respond?
A peer dies, a divorce happens, or a child finds out that they were adopted.How will you react?What books will you pull off of your classroom library shelf?Can you use it as a teachable moment and if so, do you have the right activities and lesson extensions prepared?Teaching with Books that Heal is a powerful resource for teaching difficult subjects to children.As a former Assistant Principal at a school for children with emotional and behavioral needs, I would have loved to have had this on hand for my teachers grappling with students' complicated issues that arise in the classroom.Get this book so that you can be prepared to meet your students' needs.

Dr. Shellie Hipsky, Assistant Professor, Robert Morris University and author of Differentiated Literacy and Language Arts Strategies for the Elementary Classroom
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Media Center Discovery is a handy guide for you to use with your elementary and middle school students. They will learn to use the media center and develop the skills needed to access and use print, nonprint, and electronic library materials. The book contains an array of fun-filled and informative activities that support language arts and social studies courses in grades 5—8. Your students will learn by doing the book’s activities, which are designed to foster critical thinking skills, literacy skills, and research ethics. The lessons presented in this easy-to-use book can be used in any sequence, and each activity is followed with an assessment or evaluation.

For quick access and easy use the book is organized into eleven sections:

Getting to Know Your Library Media Center: Mapping the Library Media Center • Print and Electronic Card Catalogs Using Reference Resources: The Parts of a Reference Book • Table of Contents • Index • Glossary • Bibliography

General Information: Almanac • Dictionary • Thesaurus • Encyclopedia • Record Books

Geography: Atlas • Maps • Gazetteer

Biography and Quotations

Current Information: Periodicals • Newspapers • Magazines • Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature • Vertical Files • Outside the LMC

Dewey-Decimal Classification System

Fiction: Books • Genres • Folklore, Myths, and Legends • Fables, Tall Tales, and Folk Tales • Poetry • Award Winners • Book Reports • Copyright

Electronic Materials: Videotapes, CDs, DVDs, and Audiotapes • Microfiche

Computers and the Internet: Search Engines • The Internet • Electronic Reference Software • Word Processing • Production Software

Writing and Publishing: Organization Systems of LMC • Self-Organization • Topic Generation • Note Taking • Prewriting • Basic Outlining • Timeline • Draft Writing • Publishing ... Read more

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This book was published 5 years ago, but even then I doubt that many school librarians were still devoting lesson time to understanding (print) card catalogs, The Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature, and vertical files.
The title says there are 180 ready-to-use activities, but I'll only be using a handful, and I guess creating my own activities for the 21st century learner. ... Read more

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In past years, teaching children about conservation and environmental issues might have been an optional side topic to complement an earth science curriculum, but in today's educational climate, "being green" is a subject with great relevance and importance.

This book combines a wide variety of techniques to help students understand environmental issues and gain the skills needed to take action. The children's literature and classroom activities suggested in Think Green, Take Action: Books and Activities for Kids are appropriate for elementary school students from grades three through seven, covering three major environmental issues: endangered species, resource depletion, and pollution. After students have a grasp of the causes of these environmental problems, the final chapter presents ways to take easy action that can create ripples of change across the world. Educators in museums and nature centers, home-schooled children, and their parents comprise an appropriate secondary audience for this instructive text.

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A broad range of activities-bulletin board games, exhibits, contests, mini-lessons, and more. ... Read more

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Designed around the new IRA/NCTE Standards, (reading, writing, representing, viewing, speaking, and listening) these 60 stimulating activities applicable to a variety of novels create opportunities for students to develop their skills as readers, writers, and speakers. Three sections center on reading and writing activity projects (e.g., essays, news stories, letters), visual display projects (e.g., charts, posters, bookmarks), and speaking and listening activities. ... Read more

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What A Novel Idea!
I found this book extremely helpful!I am a college student that has been doing some teaching for the past few semesters.I have used numerous books that would help plan lessons to be taught.This book was the most helpfuland interesting.It offers may fun and interesting comprehensionactivities that are easily taught to many different ages of students.Thestrategies in this book can be used when teaching a book or story that thestudents may be reading."What A Novel Idea" is an excellentresource that I would recommend to any teacher that is looking for new andfun activities to help monitor their students' comprehension of a text. ... Read more

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This book takes the library media specialist and teacher, working as full teaching partners, into the 21st century. It is practical and realistic for every library program, addressing the need for collaboration and explaining how to make it happen. It incorporates information literacy, content standards, and technology into multi-disciplinary lessons which are inquiry-based and interactive. It presents a strong case for a sound library program philosophy that can be shared with all constituents.

This resource completely defines and demystifies collaboration. Inside the book, educators will find both the process and products for standards-based, versatile units planned and delivered collaboratively by the library media specialist and classroom teacher to positively impact student achievement. Updated book lists, Web sites, and professional resources are provided for effective program implementation.

Ultimately, this book is the ‘what’, the ‘why’, the ‘who’ and the ‘how to’ of collaboration for the K-12 library program. Educators can use this book in any venue or recommend it to up-and-coming library media specialists who want a head start in the new age of collaboration. ... Read more

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A superb educational resource
Now in its second edition, The Standards-Based Integrated Library is an educator's and librarian's guide to creating and molding a school library program in step with classroom curriculums. Placing student achievement as top priority, The Standards-Based Integrated Library offers ways for the library media specialist and the classroom teacher to work as partners, and offers sample multi-disciplinary lessons that are both inquiry-based and interactive. Listed lessons are described with objectives, standards addressed, a suggested time frame, straightforward procedure, and more. A superb educational resource for home schoolers as well as public and school librarians. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services, published by Auslib Press Party Ltd. on March 1, 2002. The length of the article is 928 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Children are our future ... right?(Brief Article)
Author: Alan Bundy
Publication: Australasian Public Libraries and Information Services (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 2002
Publisher: Auslib Press Party Ltd.
Volume: 15Issue: 1Page: 3(2)

Article Type: Brief Article

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This dissertation examines predictable links among motives, three types of activity levels: selectivity, involvement, and utility, which could influence evaluations of news use: affinity, dependency, and satisfaction. A survey on respondents at a university campus community was conducted for data collection. A total of 414 analyzable responses were used for analysis.The results found that frequent Web news users had affinity with, dependency on, and satisfaction with Web news. Exciting entertainment and personal/social utility motives play determining roles in predicting positives evaluations of Web news. Two activity levels: cognitive involvement and utility of Web news use, were important mediating factors between Web news motives and evaluations. ... Read more

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This set of four books is part of a series that combines vital curriculum support with the versatility and time-saving benefits of photocopiable material. Each book covers a specific area of the curriculum through worthwhile activities designed to develop skills and understanding. Each of the English books provides a collection of lively activities designed to support the programmes of study for the English curriculum . The activities can be used either as part of structured English sessions or as individual learning aids for specific language skills. ... Read more

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Become computer savvy while learning English at the same time! This innovative course combines language learning with training in basic computer skills and word processing appropriate for most versions of Microsoft Word (Windows 95 and later). Its illustrated, easy-to-read computer instructions make it very accessible to high beginner ESL students.

The 8 units include Learning About the Mouse, Desktop, and The Future Tense; Learning the Keyboard and Gerunds/Infinitives; Learning About Windows and the Past Tense; Learning the File Menu and the Present Perfect; and Learning the Format Menu and the Passive.

Most activities are communicative and designed for students to work in pairs. There are also speaking, listening, pronunciation, and writing tasks. Each unit ends with a dialogue between students who regularly practice in the computer lab. The characters find themselves discussing provocative topics such as bringing up children in a new country and balancing work and study.

The book is available with an optional disk that includes activities, projects, and letter templates that students can apply to what they have learned. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Australian Library Journal, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 9038 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Thinking pop literacies, or why John Howard should read more.
Author: Tara Brabazon
Publication: The Australian Library Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 55Issue: 4Page: 285(16)

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The best of middle school teaching is "learning by doing" and is interdisciplinary. This book ties it all together and offers a complete, innovative program, from vision, through planning, implementation, and assessment. The program is accomplished through the collaboration of the school library media specialist and the language arts teacher. Senator outlines ways in which they can collaboratively plan, teach, and assess units which use language arts as tools. She includes specific instructional programs, suggestions for staff development, examples of questions, organizers, and units for grades six through eight, ideas for creating schedules, and methods of working together to develop materials for instruction. ... Read more

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Informative and Practical
School media centers should support the curriculum. Ideally, teachers and school media specialists should collaborate to make the best use of all the resources in the school media center. However, too often both groups workin isolation, failing to capitalize on the potential benefits studentswould reap from their collaboration. This book is a great starting pointfor anyone seeking to establish greater collaboration between language artsteachers and school media specialists.Senator outlines a program whichincludes school media specialists and language arts teachers planning,teaching, and assessing together, rather than in isolation. In addition todescribing the program, Senator provides many useful sample resource unitsthat can be used immediately by teachers and school media specialists.Thebook primarily focuses on the middle school level, but Senator alsoincludes a chapter on how to adapt the program to elementary and secondarylevels. Overall, it is a wonderful idea source! Teachers, librarians, andmost importantly, students, should benefit from the use of a program likeSenator's. ... Read more