March 15th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Anyone, Guide, Nononsense, Read, Teach
- ISBN13: 9781604021486
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Illiteracy is expanding worldwide, despite sophisticated teaching methods, heightened awareness of the importance of literacy, and the spread of computers and Internet usage. The population of nonreaders includes adults who cannot decipher instructions, rent agreements, contracts, the warnings on medications, or even the simple books their children bring home from school. Proper instruction can not only help children still in school, but it can also help the school dropouts and adults who need and want help in breaking the barriers to literacy. The methods described in Teach Anyone to Read:…
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March 13th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, English, Grades, Guide, Materials, ReadytoUse, Survival, Teachers, Techniques
- ISBN13: 9780130456816
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
For both new and experienced English teachers, grades 7 through 12, here is a unique time-saver and problem-solver packed with tested techniques and materials to assist you in virtually every aspect of your job, from dealing with discipline problems and handling paperwork, to teaching the writing process. Included are 175 easy-to-use strategies, lessons, and checklists for effective classroom management, and over 50 reproducible samples that you can adopt immediately for planning, evaluation, or assignments. The Guide helps you create a classroom that reflects the excitement for learning that every English teacher…
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March 10th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Birth, Building, Caregivers, Children, Guide, Literacy, Love, Teachers, Through
Product Description
This book offers practical suggestions for implementing effective, research-based teaching practices in child-care settings.
Building Literacy With Love: A Guide for Teachers and Caregivers of Children Birth Through Age 5
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March 10th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Academic, at, College, Every, Guide, Know, 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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March 7th, 2010
Category: ESL Articles
Tags: at, b.a programme guide, Book, Counselors’, Development, English, Guide, Hand, Programme, r words, Subject, ycm time table of exam of ba 2nd year 2010, YCMOU, ycmou ba courses, ycmou fyba subjects in 2010
1. Introduction -:
Education is crucial to socio economic development of the individual as well as of the society. The perceived cost benefits of mass distance education have attracted the focus of educational planners. The global economic instability has made the efficiency with which educational resources are used as a fundamental consideration in both developed and developing countries. From a government perceptive, distance education appears to offer certain benefit.
Distance Education promotes the universal access to education. It is an equitable access to education. It accesses to the disadvantaged individuals who cannot attend conventional school of higher educational institutions, to previously disadvantaged people…
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March 7th, 2010
Category: Information Literacy VIDEOS
Tags: at, Guide, information literacy, Students, Tutorial, Wikipedia
Description: The educational goals and objectives for this tutorial are based on the ACRL Literacy Competency Standards. Standard Three specifies: “The information literate student evaluates information and its sources critically and incorporates selected information into his or her knowledge base and value system.” One of the performance indicators for Standard Three is: “The information literate student articulates and applies initial criteria for evaluating both the information and its sources.” The educational outcome for this tutorial is that the student will examine and compare “information from various sources in order to evaluate reliability, validity, accuracy, authority, timeliness, and point of view…
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March 3rd, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Allusions, at, Biblical, biblical allusions news stories, Essential, Everyday, Guide, Life, Literacy, Literature, r words
Product Description
*Examines 750 common Biblical references and what they’ve come to represent in today’s culture through art, literature, song and common phrases
*User friendly format–arranged alphabetically (from Aaron’s rod to Zion)
What do we mean when we call a woman a Jezebel? What exactly was a scapegoat? Why was a fast-and-furious driver called Jehu? In a more literate (and Bible-conscious) age, most people knew the source of these and hundreds of other names, phrases, and images. Artists and writers could assume their audiences would understand references to biblical people and events. Today, some of those meanings are lost. This book…
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March 1st, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Authoritative, EasytoUse, Edition, English, Guide, Meetings, Plain, Readable, Robert's, Rules, Running
- ISBN13: 9780060787790
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A revised edition of the bestselling Robert’s Rules in Plain English, which still stands as the most concise, most-user friendly guide to parliamentary procedure on the market today.
If you’ve ever had to run a meeting according to parliamentary procedures, you know just how difficult it is to keep track of all the rules, much less follow them. Figuring out what to say and how to say it seems an impossible task.
Robert’s Rules in Plain English, 2nd edition, is the solution to that problem. Not only does it provide you…
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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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February 15th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Argumentative, at, citizens, Civic, Critical, Guide, Literacy, Reading, Rhetoric, Writing
Product Description
This innovative textbook, for first-year English and more advanced composition and critical thinking courses, addresses the need for college students to develop critical reading, writing, and thinking skills for self-defense in the contentious arena of American civic rhetoric. In a groundbreaking reconception of composition theory, it presents a comprehensive critical perspective on American public discourse and practical methods for its analysis.
Exercises following the text sections and readings help students understand the ideological positions and rhetorical patterns that underlie opposing viewpoints in current controversies—such as the growing inequality of wealth in America and its impact on the finances of…
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