Author: Bruno Blumenfield
Publisher: Princeton Review
ISBN: 9780679783763
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Reading Smart Junior is The Princeton Review's contribution to helping kids with their struggles with some of those less desirable reading assignments. They accomplish this by looking at tough books as an interesting challenge. The Smart Junior gang is dispatched on a mission to the Land of Fiction where they encounter chapters from all sorts of texts, including Oliver Twist, Huck Finn and the March Sisters. Following each chapter there will be a short passage from the book as well as a series of questions designed to help the reader look at reading as a wealth of themes, instead of just a jumble of characters and events. Includes loads of helpful glossaries, vocabulary and comprehensive exercises to help readers remember words and ideas. After this book, kids might even enjoy reading assignments in school!
Becoming a Star Reader
Author: Bruno Blumenfield
Publisher: Princeton Review
ISBN: 9780679783763
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Reading Smart Junior is The Princeton Review's contribution to helping kids with their struggles with some of those less desirable reading assignments. They accomplish this by looking at tough books as an interesting challenge. The Smart Junior gang is dispatched on a mission to the Land of Fiction where they encounter chapters from all sorts of texts, including Oliver Twist, Huck Finn and the March Sisters. Following each chapter there will be a short passage from the book as well as a series of questions designed to help the reader look at reading as a wealth of themes, instead of just a jumble of characters and events. Includes loads of helpful glossaries, vocabulary and comprehensive exercises to help readers remember words and ideas. After this book, kids might even enjoy reading assignments in school!
Publisher: Princeton Review
ISBN: 9780679783763
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Reading Smart Junior is The Princeton Review's contribution to helping kids with their struggles with some of those less desirable reading assignments. They accomplish this by looking at tough books as an interesting challenge. The Smart Junior gang is dispatched on a mission to the Land of Fiction where they encounter chapters from all sorts of texts, including Oliver Twist, Huck Finn and the March Sisters. Following each chapter there will be a short passage from the book as well as a series of questions designed to help the reader look at reading as a wealth of themes, instead of just a jumble of characters and events. Includes loads of helpful glossaries, vocabulary and comprehensive exercises to help readers remember words and ideas. After this book, kids might even enjoy reading assignments in school!
Raising a Rock-Star Reader
Author: Amy Mascott
Publisher: Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780545806176
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the creators of the popular education blogs Teach Mama and No Time for Flash Cards comes a must-have parents' guide for raising lifelong readers and learners. A great way to help your students' time-crunched parents take an active role in their child's learning, this book is filled with fun, quick activities for building children's oral lang
Publisher: Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9780545806176
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the creators of the popular education blogs Teach Mama and No Time for Flash Cards comes a must-have parents' guide for raising lifelong readers and learners. A great way to help your students' time-crunched parents take an active role in their child's learning, this book is filled with fun, quick activities for building children's oral lang
Book Love
Author: Penny Kittle
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325042954
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes why secondary students don't read, and offers teachers practical advice and strategies for developing depth, stamina, and passion in adolescent readers.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9780325042954
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Describes why secondary students don't read, and offers teachers practical advice and strategies for developing depth, stamina, and passion in adolescent readers.
Pinwheel Days
Author: Ellen Tarlow
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417770632
Category : Donkeys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. In four separate stories, Pinwheel the donkey learns about friendship when his loneliness ends after meeting his "echo," a lovely picnic stems from a mistake, his rubbing on a tree seems to break it, and his best dream ever comes true.
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9781417770632
Category : Donkeys
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
For use in schools and libraries only. In four separate stories, Pinwheel the donkey learns about friendship when his loneliness ends after meeting his "echo," a lovely picnic stems from a mistake, his rubbing on a tree seems to break it, and his best dream ever comes true.
Setting the Stage for Rock-star Readers
Author: Amy Mascott
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9781338285611
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Features fun, developmentally appropriate activities that build oral language and early reading and writing skills.
Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources
ISBN: 9781338285611
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Features fun, developmentally appropriate activities that build oral language and early reading and writing skills.
Star Readers: from out of the east
Author: D.A. Nygaard
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483420094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Ancient star readers are amazed by a conjunction of wandering and royal stars, and connect the mysterious event with a long-ago prophesy by an exalted member of their order. Their quest to uncover this mystery becomes a dangerous marathon into a slave empire. Deceit surrounds them and a frightening entity haunts them. The journey carries the star readers through storms, battles, crossroads and palaces before finally leading them to a one-room mud hut in an insignificant village. Darker questions then confront them. Meres, a young man of noble birth, and Jenu, a servant-healer, are swept up in this quest, and it changes their destiny. What they witness will change the world. An innovative re-telling of the journey of the wise men to Bethlehem. Respectful of the ancient text and historically accurate, Star Readers offers a logical rationale behind one of the world's most mesmerizing stories.
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1483420094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Ancient star readers are amazed by a conjunction of wandering and royal stars, and connect the mysterious event with a long-ago prophesy by an exalted member of their order. Their quest to uncover this mystery becomes a dangerous marathon into a slave empire. Deceit surrounds them and a frightening entity haunts them. The journey carries the star readers through storms, battles, crossroads and palaces before finally leading them to a one-room mud hut in an insignificant village. Darker questions then confront them. Meres, a young man of noble birth, and Jenu, a servant-healer, are swept up in this quest, and it changes their destiny. What they witness will change the world. An innovative re-telling of the journey of the wise men to Bethlehem. Respectful of the ancient text and historically accurate, Star Readers offers a logical rationale behind one of the world's most mesmerizing stories.
Stardom and Celebrity
Author: Sean Redmond
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446202380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Acts as a concise introduction to the study of both contemporary and historical stardom and celebrity. Collecting together in one source companion an easily accessible range of readings surrounding stardom and celebrity culture, this book is a worthwhile addition to any library." - Kerry Gough, Birmingham City University "Absolutely wonderful. The inclusion of seminal works and more recent works makes this a very valuable read." - Beschara Karam, University of South Africa "An engaging and often insightful book." - Media International Australia This book brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of stardom and celebrity studies, while crucially combining and situating these within the context of new essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today's fame culture. From Max Weber, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes to Catherine Lumby, Chris Rojek and Graeme Turner. At the core of the collection is a desire to map out a unique historical trajectory - both in terms of the development of fame, as well as the historical development of the field.
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1446202380
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 401
Book Description
"Acts as a concise introduction to the study of both contemporary and historical stardom and celebrity. Collecting together in one source companion an easily accessible range of readings surrounding stardom and celebrity culture, this book is a worthwhile addition to any library." - Kerry Gough, Birmingham City University "Absolutely wonderful. The inclusion of seminal works and more recent works makes this a very valuable read." - Beschara Karam, University of South Africa "An engaging and often insightful book." - Media International Australia This book brings together some of the seminal interventions which have structured the development of stardom and celebrity studies, while crucially combining and situating these within the context of new essays which address the contemporary, cross-media and international landscape of today's fame culture. From Max Weber, Walter Benjamin and Roland Barthes to Catherine Lumby, Chris Rojek and Graeme Turner. At the core of the collection is a desire to map out a unique historical trajectory - both in terms of the development of fame, as well as the historical development of the field.
Becoming: Adapted for Young Readers
Author: Michelle Obama
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0593303768
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michelle Obama’s worldwide bestselling memoir, Becoming, is now adapted for young readers. Michelle Robinson was born on the South Side of Chicago. From her modest beginnings, she would become Michelle Obama, the inspiring and powerful First Lady of the United States, when her husband, Barack Obama, was elected the forty-fourth president. They would be the first Black First Family in the White House and serve the country for two terms. Growing up, Michelle and her older brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family’s upstairs apartment in her great-aunt’s house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love and energy into their children. Michelle’s beloved dad taught his kids to work hard, keep their word, and remember to laugh. Her mom showed them how to think for themselves, use their voice, and be unafraid. But life soon took her far from home. With determination, carefully made plans, and the desire to achieve, Michelle was eager to expand the sphere of her life from her schooling in Chicago. She went to Princeton University, where she learned what it felt like to be the only Black woman in the room. She then went to Harvard Law School, and after graduating returned to Chicago and became a high-powered lawyer. Her plans changed, however, when she met and fell in love with Barack Obama. From her early years of marriage, and the struggle to balance being a working woman, a wife, and the mom of two daughters, Michelle Obama details the shift she made to political life and what her family endured as a result of her husband’s fast-moving political career and campaign for the presidency. She shares the glamour of ball gowns and world travel, and the difficulties of comforting families after tragedies. She managed to be there for her daughters’ swim competitions and attend plays at their schools without catching the spotlight, while defining and championing numerous initiatives, especially those geared toward kids, during her time as First Lady. Most important, this volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama’s life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what do you want to become?
Publisher: Delacorte Press
ISBN: 0593303768
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Michelle Obama’s worldwide bestselling memoir, Becoming, is now adapted for young readers. Michelle Robinson was born on the South Side of Chicago. From her modest beginnings, she would become Michelle Obama, the inspiring and powerful First Lady of the United States, when her husband, Barack Obama, was elected the forty-fourth president. They would be the first Black First Family in the White House and serve the country for two terms. Growing up, Michelle and her older brother, Craig, shared a bedroom in their family’s upstairs apartment in her great-aunt’s house. Her parents, Fraser and Marian, poured their love and energy into their children. Michelle’s beloved dad taught his kids to work hard, keep their word, and remember to laugh. Her mom showed them how to think for themselves, use their voice, and be unafraid. But life soon took her far from home. With determination, carefully made plans, and the desire to achieve, Michelle was eager to expand the sphere of her life from her schooling in Chicago. She went to Princeton University, where she learned what it felt like to be the only Black woman in the room. She then went to Harvard Law School, and after graduating returned to Chicago and became a high-powered lawyer. Her plans changed, however, when she met and fell in love with Barack Obama. From her early years of marriage, and the struggle to balance being a working woman, a wife, and the mom of two daughters, Michelle Obama details the shift she made to political life and what her family endured as a result of her husband’s fast-moving political career and campaign for the presidency. She shares the glamour of ball gowns and world travel, and the difficulties of comforting families after tragedies. She managed to be there for her daughters’ swim competitions and attend plays at their schools without catching the spotlight, while defining and championing numerous initiatives, especially those geared toward kids, during her time as First Lady. Most important, this volume for young people is an honest and fascinating account of Michelle Obama’s life led by example. She shares her views on how all young people can help themselves as well as help others, no matter their status in life. She asks readers to realize that no one is perfect, and that the process of becoming is what matters, as finding yourself is ever evolving. In telling her story with boldness, she asks young readers: Who are you, and what do you want to become?
Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book)
Author: Julie Falatko
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698154940
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Snappsy the alligator is having a normal day when a pesky narrator steps in to spice up the story. Is Snappsy reading a book ... or is he making CRAFTY plans? Is Snappsy on his way to the grocery store ... or is he PROWLING the forest for defenseless birds and fuzzy bunnies? Is Snappsy innocently shopping for a party ... or is he OBSESSED with snack foods that start with the letter P? What's the truth? Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) is an irreverent look at storytelling, friendship, and creative differences, perfect for fans of Mo Willems.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0698154940
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Snappsy the alligator is having a normal day when a pesky narrator steps in to spice up the story. Is Snappsy reading a book ... or is he making CRAFTY plans? Is Snappsy on his way to the grocery store ... or is he PROWLING the forest for defenseless birds and fuzzy bunnies? Is Snappsy innocently shopping for a party ... or is he OBSESSED with snack foods that start with the letter P? What's the truth? Snappsy the Alligator (Did Not Ask to Be in This Book) is an irreverent look at storytelling, friendship, and creative differences, perfect for fans of Mo Willems.
Becoming a Teacher
Author: Melinda D. Anderson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1982139900
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
An illuminating guide to a career as a teacher written by acclaimed journalist Melinda D. Anderson and based on the real-life experiences of a master teacher—essential reading for anyone considering a path to this profession that changes lives. Go behind the scenes and be mentored by the best in the business to find out what it’s really like, and what it really takes, to become a teacher. Educators are the bedrock of a healthy society, and the exceptional ones have a lasting impact. The best teachers surpass mere instruction to cultivate and empower students beyond school. In LaQuisha Hall’s classroom, students are “scholars,” young ladies are “queens,” and young men are “kings.” The Baltimore high school English teacher’s pioneering approach to literacy has earned her teacher of the year accolades, and has established her as a visionary mentor to the young black men and women of Baltimore. Acclaimed education writer Melinda D. Anderson shadows Mrs. Hall to reveal how this rewarding profession changes lives. Learn about Hall’s path to prominence, from the challenging realities of her rookie year to her place of excellence in the classroom. Learn from Hall’s inspiring approach and confront the critical issues of race, identity, and equity in education. Here is how the job is performed at the highest level.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1982139900
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
An illuminating guide to a career as a teacher written by acclaimed journalist Melinda D. Anderson and based on the real-life experiences of a master teacher—essential reading for anyone considering a path to this profession that changes lives. Go behind the scenes and be mentored by the best in the business to find out what it’s really like, and what it really takes, to become a teacher. Educators are the bedrock of a healthy society, and the exceptional ones have a lasting impact. The best teachers surpass mere instruction to cultivate and empower students beyond school. In LaQuisha Hall’s classroom, students are “scholars,” young ladies are “queens,” and young men are “kings.” The Baltimore high school English teacher’s pioneering approach to literacy has earned her teacher of the year accolades, and has established her as a visionary mentor to the young black men and women of Baltimore. Acclaimed education writer Melinda D. Anderson shadows Mrs. Hall to reveal how this rewarding profession changes lives. Learn about Hall’s path to prominence, from the challenging realities of her rookie year to her place of excellence in the classroom. Learn from Hall’s inspiring approach and confront the critical issues of race, identity, and equity in education. Here is how the job is performed at the highest level.