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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $14.88
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Manufacturer: Crown
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Peg Tyre
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Publisher: Crown
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371.8210973
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Publication Date: 2008-09-09
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Reading Level: 320
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Description: From the moment they step into the classroom, boys begin to struggle. They get expelled from preschool nearly five times more often than girls; in elementary school, they’re diagnosed with learning disorders four times as often. By eighth grade huge numbers are reading below basic level. And by high school, they’re heavily outnumbered in AP classes and, save for the realm of athletics, show indifference to most extracurricular activities. Perhaps most alarmingly, boys now account for less than 43 percent of those enrolled in college, and the gap widens every semester!
The imbalance in higher education isn’t just a “boy problem,” though. Boys’ decreasing college attendance is bad news for girls, too, because admissions officers seeking balanced student bodies pass over girls in favor of boys. The growing gender imbalance in education portends massive shifts for the next generation: how much they make and whom they marry.
Interviewing hundreds of parents, kids, teachers, and experts, award-winning journalist Peg Tyre drills below the eye-catching statistics to examine how the educational system is failing our sons. She explores the convergence of culprits, from the emphasis on high-stress academics in preschool and kindergarten, when most boys just can’t tolerate sitting still, to the outright banning of recess, from the demands of No Child Left Behind, with its rigid emphasis on test-taking, to the boy-unfriendly modern curriculum with its focus on writing about “feelings” and its purging of “high-action” reading material, from the rise of video gaming and schools’ unease with technology to the lack of male teachers as role models.
But this passionate, clearheaded book isn’t an exercise in finger-pointing. Tyre, the mother of two sons, offers notes from the front lines—the testimony of teachers and other school officials who are trying new techniques to motivate boys to learn again, one classroom at a time. The Trouble with Boys gives parents, educators, and anyone concerned about the state of education a manifesto for change—one we must undertake right away lest school be-come, for millions of boys, unalterably a “girl thing.”
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Price: $30.00
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Sale: $26.95
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Manufacturer: Stenhouse Publishers
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stephanie Harvey::Anne Goudvis
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Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 372.47
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Publication Date: 2007-05-30
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Reading Level: 339
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $10.97
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Manufacturer: Love & Logic Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Jim Fay::David Funk
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Publisher: Love & Logic Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371
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Publication Date: 1995-03-01
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Reading Level: 399
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Description: Teachers often find themselves facing a variety of classroom situations never covered in initial training. This valuable resource helps teachers increase skills, enhance professional development and maximise classroom learning time. Discover why Love and Logic works in the school environment and understand the psychological reasons for its effectiveness. Jim Fay and David Funk's truly positive approach and time-tested ideas and strategies will empower teachers to effectively manage classroom dynamics while bringing the joy back to teaching.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $7.19
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Manufacturer: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert J. Marzano::Debra Pickering::Jane E. Pollock
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Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371.102
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Publication Date: 2001-01
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Reading Level: 178
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Description: What works in education? How do we know? How can teachers find out? How can educational research find its way into the classroom? How can we apply it to help our individual students? Questions like these arise in most schools, and busy educators often don't have time to find the answers. Robert J. Marzano, Debra J. Pickering, and Jane E. Pollock have examined decades of research findings to distill the results into nine broad teaching strategies that have positive effects on student learning: * Identifying similarities and differences.
* Summarizing and note taking.
* Reinforcing effort and providing recognition.
* Homework and practice.
* Nonlinguistic representations.
* Cooperative learning.
* Setting objectives and providing feedback.
* Generating and testing hypotheses.
* Questions, cues, and advance organizers. This list is not new. But what is surprising is finding out what a big difference it makes, for example, when students learn how to take good notes, work in groups, and use graphic organizers. The authors provide statistical effect sizes and show how these translate into percentile gains for students, for each strategy. And each chapter presents extended classroom examples of teachers and students in action; models of successful instruction; and many "frames," rubrics, organizers, and charts to help teachers plan and implement the strategies.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $14.83
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marcia Invernizzi::Francine Johnston::Donald R. Bear::Shane R. Templeton
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 428.13
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Publication Date: 2008-04-14
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Reading Level: 160
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Description: This supplemental book expands and enriches the practical, research-based and classroom proven way to study words with students, specifically Word Pattern spelling. Notes for the Teacher, Organizational tips, and follow-up activities all assist teachers and future teachers to begin using word sorts with minimal preparation and to easily reinforce previous word sort skills as students learn and build new ones. Designed for use as part of a reading curriculum where word pattern spelling is covered, topics provide step-by-step instructions on how to introduce and guide students through the sorting lesson. The free Words Their Way CD-ROM supplement is loaded with extra pdf files of games, word sorts, word lists, and game boards providing ready to print activities for new teachers. The Companion Website provides a resource for additional spelling inventories for grades 1-3, resources for using word sorts with ELL learners, and links to related word study websites. Designed for use as part of a reading curriculum where word pattern spelling is covered.
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Price: $22.00
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Sale: $17.00
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Manufacturer: The Guilford Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Isabel L. Beck::Margaret G. McKeown::Linda Kucan
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Publisher: The Guilford Press
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Edition: 1
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Dewey Decimal Number: 428.1071
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Publication Date: 2002-03-20
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Reading Level: 148
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Description: Exciting and engaging vocabulary instruction can set students on the path to a lifelong fascination with words. This book provides a research-based framework and practical strategies for vocabulary development with children from the earliest grades through high school. The authors emphasize instruction that offers rich information about words and their uses and enhances students' language comprehension and production. Teachers are guided in selecting words for instruction; developing student-friendly explanations of new words; creating meaningful learning activities; and getting students involved in thinking about, using, and noticing new words both within and outside the classroom. Many concrete examples, sample classroom dialogues, and exercises for teachers bring the material to life. Helpful appendices include suggestions for trade books that help children enlarge their vocabulary and/or have fun with different aspects of words.
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Price: $76.80
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Sale: $59.95
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Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Lynne T. Diaz-Rico::Kathryn Z. Weed
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Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Edition: 3
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Dewey Decimal Number: 428.007173
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Publication Date: 2005-07-21
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Reading Level: 408
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Description: The third edition of this popular handbook brings together theories, ideas, and resources for promoting crosscultural awareness, language development, and academic progress for English learners. It ties together culture and language in a comprehensive format and delves deeply into the educational challenges faced by classroom teachers. Written specifically for the mainstream teacher, the guide clearly shows the effects of cultural differences on learning and presents an excellent treatment of cultural diversity and learning styles. It comes at a time when more than two million students nationwide with limited English proficiency fill our classrooms -- a time when today's teachers desperately need practical, effective resources to help these students succeed in school.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $13.07
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francine Johnston::Donald R. Bear::Marcia Invernizzi::Shane R. Templeton
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 372.632
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Publication Date: 2008-04-18
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students. Broaden your word study understanding and instruction with this expanded word sorting tool for week by week implementation with Letter Name-Alphabetic spellers (Grades K - 3). This stage-specific companion volume to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provides a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in the letter name-alphabetic stage of spelling. This second edition boasts *Literature Connections making links between features being studies and valuable children's literature *Targeted Learners sections that clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction *Spell Checks and other Assessments available more frequently throughout *High Frequency Words receive special attention Responses from the field! A strength of each chapter is the Notes for the Teacher section that introduces each set of sorts. This reminds teachers about developmental appropriateness and pacing variations based on learner needs.Clearly the gradual release of responsibility model of guided instruction is promoted and reinforced throughout the text. Barbara Pettegrew, Otterbein College Chapter layout is excellent. Format is designed to include anything that might be needed for the lesson, and each takes you step by step through the process being taught, allowing time for students to internalize and firm up the skills and strategies. Susan K. McCloskey, California State University, Fresno Meet the Authors *Francine Johnston is Associate Professor in the School of Education at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where she teaches reading, language arts, and children's literature. A former first-grade teacher and reading specialist. *Marcia Invernizzi is Director of the McGuffey Reading Center at the University of Virginia exploring developmental universals in non-English orthographies. A former English and reading teacher, Marcia works with children experiencing difficulties learning to read and write in intervention programs such as Virginia's Early Intervention Reading Initiative and Book Buddies *Donald Bear is Director of the E.L.Cord Foundation Center for Learning and Literacy at the University of Nevada, Reno, assessing and teaching students who experience difficulties learning to read and write. A former preschool and elementary teacher, Donald currently researches literacy development with a special interest in students who speak languages other than English, and he partners with schools and districts to consider assessment and literacy instruction. *Shane Templeton is Foundation Professor of Literacy Studies at the University of Nevada, Reno. A former classroom teacher at the primary and secondary levels, he researches the development of orthographic and vocabulary knowledge.
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Price: $19.99
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Sale: $15.29
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Francine Johnston::Marcia Invernizzi::Donald R. Bear::Shane R. Templeton
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 2
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Dewey Decimal Number: 428.13
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Publication Date: 2008-04-26
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Reading Level: 144
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Description: Words Their Way companion volumes, 2e We believe that the hands-on word sorting approach to word study is invaluable to you and your students. These stage-specific companion volumes to Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction provide a complete curriculum of reproducible sorts and detailed directions for the teacher working with students in each stage of spelling development, from emergent through derivational relations. NEW! All second editions boast *Literature Connections making links between features being studies and valuable children's literature *Targeted Learners sections that clarify which students will benefit most from the instruction *Spell Checks and other Assessments available more frequently throughout *High Frequency Words receive special attention This collection of word sorting activities is for students who are in the syllables and affixes stage of spelling development, typically intermediate or advanced readers and writers (Grades 3 to 8). These students are ready to study multi-syllabic words--beginning with consonant doubling, plural endings and moving through the study of basic prefixes and suffixes.The sorts in this collection present 24 words each week, selected according to their frequency of occurrence in reading materials and allowing students to discover spelling generalizations or to compare syllable juncture features and patterns.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $6.86
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Manufacturer: Collins
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Mardy Grothe
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Publisher: Collins
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Dewey Decimal Number: 082
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Publication Date: 2004-03
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true. See also oxymoron, paradox. examples: "Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
Victor Hugo "To lead the people, walk behind them."
Lao-tzu "You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap."
Dolly Parton You won't find the word "oxymoronica" in any dictionary (at least not yet) because Dr. Mardy Grothe introduces it to readers in this delightful collection of 1,400 of the most provocative quotations of all time. From ancient thinkers like Confucius, Aristotle, and Saint Augustine to great writers like Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, and G. B. Shaw to modern social observers like Woody Allen and Lily Tomlin, Oxymoronica celebrates the power and beauty of paradoxical thinking. All areas of human activity are explored, including love, sex and romance, politics, the arts, the literary life, and, of course, marriage and family life. The wise and witty observations in this book are as highly entertaining as they are intellectually nourishing and are sure to grab the attention of language lovers everywhere.
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