August 22nd, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: About, Business, Every, Guide, Know, Legal, Literacy, Manager, Should
Product Description
The Business Guide to Legal Literacy bridges the gap between law and business by translating legalese into language that makes business sense and offers a new way to think about the law¾as a useful business tool. The book is filled with dozens of real-life examples that illustrate a step-by-step process for avoiding lawsuits and transforming potential business legal problems that threaten growth and profitability into opportunities for
· Building stronger business relationships
· Delivering sustainable shareholder value
· Improving competitive advantage
· Embedding compliance into the corporate culture to achieve organizational excellence
This much-needed resource makes the connection…
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August 19th, 2010
Category: Literacy Skills
Tags: Americans, Every, illiterate, Know, nearly
“Illiteracy on the rise in America”
By Larry Roberts
14 October, 1998
“According to a recent US government report, The State of Literacy in America, released by the National Institute for Literacy (NIL), there has been a significant growth in illiteracy in America. Over 90 million US adults, nearly one out of two, are functionally illiterate or near illiterate, without the minimum skills required in a modern society.
The report is a devastating portrait of the social conditions in capitalist America, the country generally portrayed as the most advanced in the world. Out of 191 million adults in the US, as many as 44…
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August 6th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Activities, Child, Early, Ensures, Every, Fast, Literacy, poems, Program, Readers, Reading, Reproducible, ResearchBased, SendHome, Start, Success
Product Description
This simple, research-proven early intervention program builds reading proficiency, word recognition, and overall comprehension. Ten minutes each night, parents and children engage in repeated, guided reading of poems just right for early readers, then do a quick, skill-building activity. Plus, 30 stickers, tips on involving families, and reproducible family letters, certificates, bookmarks, and reading logs!
Fast Start For Early Readers: A Research-Based, Send-Home Literacy Program With 60 Reproducible Poems and Activities That Ensures Reading Success for Every Child
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August 1st, 2010
Category: Articles
Tags: Child, Every, Occur, Readiness, Reading, same
Reading readiness occurs only when a child is truly ready to learn how to read. Although learning oral language comes naturally to humans, learning to read does not. We must be taught how to read.
Keep in mind that every child is different. Reading readiness varies greatly from one person to the next, and one teaching method may not work for every child. What worked for Steve may not work for Johnny, and what works for Johnny may not work for Amy.
There is no set age at which all children are ready, either. Do not worry if your child seems to…
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May 19th, 2010
Category: Articles
Tags: Baby, Every, Information, Know, Mother, Read, Should, Teach
Is it possible to teach baby to read starting from birth? Not exactly. A baby’s brain is at it’s most active during the first three years of life, therefore it is possible to teach a baby pr-reading skills straight from birth. These pr-reading skills are vital, to allow your child to read well later in life.
So how do you teach baby to read? Games and music are the main pre-reading activities along with certain other methods. Whilst these methods are not considered early reading activities, they are in fact vital to your child’s ability to read.
Teachers are only too aware…
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May 18th, 2010
Category: Articles
Tags: Baby, Every, Information, Mother, Read, Should, Teach
How is it possible to teach baby to read at such at such an early stage in life? It’s not, well not exactly. Your baby’s brain is at it’s most involved during the first three years of it’s life. This will allow your baby to be taught pre-reading skills at the beginning of it’s life. Pr-reading skills are critical, to permit your child to read well later on in life.
To teach baby to read, the main pe-reading activities include music and games as well as certain other techniques. Such methods are not considered early reading activities, but they are in…
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April 18th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: English, Every, Know, Literate, Needs, Person, Reader.
- ISBN13: 9780195077292
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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Product Description
In this sequel to the best-selling The American Reader, mother-and-son team Diane and Michael Ravitch have gathered together the best and most memorable poems, essays, songs, and orations in English history, capturing in one compact volume writings that have shaped not only England, but democratic culture around the globe.
Here are words that changed the world, words that inspired revolutions as well as lovers, dreamers, and singers, words that every educated person once knew–and should know today. Framed by two inspiring speeches–Queen Elizabeth before the invasion of the Spanish Armada and Winston Churchill during…
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March 10th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Academic, at, College, ESL, Every, Guide, Know, learning strategies, Should, Student, Success, University
Product Description
This book teaches English language learners about language learning and classroom expectations. It is a compilation of advice, experiences, suggestions, strategies, and learning theories collected over many years of teaching this population.
What Every ESL Student Should Know was written to help English language learners be successful in community college and college classrooms—specifically, how to prepare students for expectations and behavior within the classroom and how to help them to be good students, how to participate in class, what to expect from the class, and what to do to learn English. Learning strategies and language theories are presented in brief.
This text…
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February 17th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Educators, Every, Guide, High, Information, information literacy, information literacy standards for student learning, Know, Literacy, Needs, School, senior
Product Description
Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title provides practical help in preparing students to be active lifelong learners and efficient seekers and users of information. It provides a comparison of the AASL Information Literacy Standards for Student Learning to the ACRL information literacy standards, including specific lessons to teach these standards; check lists to make sure students know, understand, and can demonstrate their use; and formative and summative assessment ideas to assure that the students are information literacy ready for college.
Serving as a text/resource book for teachers of high school students, this title…
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