March 13th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Change, Growth, Learning, Literacy, Schools, Stories, Teachers, Urban
Product Description
Many children in urban communities struggle with reading and writing despite your efforts to implement best literacy practices. This book will help preservice teachers, classroom teachers, and teacher educators bridge cultural gaps to help these children achieve in literacy. Enrich your own cultural understandings as you learn about how the experiences of preservice teachers in urban communities prepared them for the responsibility that comes with teaching in these settings. Ultimately, you’ll gain insights about becoming culturally sensitive as you read these real-life stories of teacher growth.
Learning to Be Literacy Teachers in Urban Schools: Stories of Growth and Change
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March 10th, 2010
Category: Articles
Tags: Courses, English, experiential, Learn, Learning, MaltaAn, Technology
Learn English courses in Malta
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Recent research has shown that learning a foreign language can help you to improve your overall intelligence. So, isn’t this a great reason to enroll for a learn English course! The ability to speak English can also give your career a major fillip. Moreover, the opportunity to learn English in Malta can prove to be a really exciting experience with activities like SCUBA diving!
Learning English requires familiarization with the basic concepts of the language. Hence the English courses in Malta are designed…
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March 10th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: American, English, Everyday, Expressions, Idiomatic, Learning, StepbyStep, Workbook
- ISBN13: 9780870117565
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
[The following excerpt from the Introductiion gives a clear idea of the book's contents.]
Idiomatic expressions give English its color and vitality. They are indispensable to the daily speech of the people and to the language of newspapers and books, television and movies. Whenever you hear a phrase whose meaning cannot be understood even if you know the definitions of the separate words involved, you have probably encountered an idiom. Mastering idioms requires a great deal of listening, studying, practice, and usage. You cannot ignore this part of the language:…
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March 7th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Classroom, Digital, Learning, Literacies, Practices, Social
- ISBN13: 9781847870384
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Digital technologies are an everyday part of life for students and this book explores the ways in which they can be used in schools. The authors provide insight into the research on digital technologies, stressing its relevance for schools, and suggest ways to develop new, more relevant pedagogies, particularly for social learning, literacy, and literate practices. With a practical focus, the examples and issues explored in this book will help you to analyze your own practice and to carry out your own small-scale research projects.
Digital Literacies: Social Learning and Classroom Practices…
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March 5th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, Childhood, Development, Early, emergent, Language, Learning, Literacy, Promoting
- ISBN13: 9781606233009
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
This concise, accessible book explores the connection between language acquisition and emergent literacy skills, and how this sets the stage for later literacy development. Chapters address formative early experiences such as speaking and listening, being read to, and talking about print concepts and the alphabet. Written for early childhood professionals, reading specialists, and speech–language pathologists, the book describes effective assessment and instructional approaches for fostering language learning and emergent literacy in typically developing children and those at risk for language delays. Vivid case examples illustrate specific ways to collaborate with…
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March 2nd, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Accelerating, at, Book, English, ESL, Foresman, Grade, Language, Learning, Scott, Student
Product Description
Scott Foresman ESL for grades 6-8 is a content-based, grade-level program that actually accelerates English language learning. It teaches students the academic language and content they need to achieve success in the mainstream classroom.
Scott Foresman ESL Student Book, Grade 6: Accelerating English Language Learning
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February 27th, 2010
Category: Children Literacy
Tags: at, Children, Concepts, Education, homeschool, john taylor gatto, Learning, mess, Public, simplest, System
roots of public schooling ( common school movement, horace mann and complusory schooling-one reason for public schooling being mass education would create a better democracy, ) to the downfall of public schooling? How have these supposed good intentions lead to the absolute downfall of this system? My thought is that these intentions couldn’t have been so very pure if we are where we are today. Literacy was way higher in colonial America where homeschooling was generally the manner of teaching. Your opinion and insight are much appreciated.
Please no simple minded one word answers. Democrats, are you kidding me? Please no…
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February 26th, 2010
Category: English Lesson Plans
Tags: at, Center, Conservation, Costa, costa rica, ESL, Learning, Rica, Sarapiqui, TEFL, Volunteer
The SCLCs mission is to link communities and conservation through education and ecotourism in the Sarapiquí region of Costa Ricas northern lowlands. The SCLC focuses its efforts in four areas environmental education, community development, conservation, and tourism in order to help form future environmental leaders, raise the organizational capacity of local communities, promote sustainable land use, and offer tourism that serves as a source of support for sustainable development in the area. Our programs serve hundreds of local people and thousands of ecotourists each year. This region is the 6th poorest county in all of Costa Rica. Tourism is a…
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February 24th, 2010
Category: Literacy Articles
Tags: Activity, at, Children’s, early childhood literacy newspaper articles, Learning, Minds, Preschool, preschool learning concepts, stimulating, stimulating children to learn
It is important for those who work with preschoolers to choose a preschool learning activity carefully. Teaching preschoolers is a rewarding experience and young children are like pliable putty in their preschool teacherâs hands. Those who teach children, especially preschoolers, experience one of the finest joys that life has to offer. If you have ever watched a young childâs eyes widen in amazement as they see a new creature emerge before their sight – as with a science-based preschool learning activity, then you understand the true rewards of teaching children.
Choosing the best preschool learning activity for young children will enhance…
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February 21st, 2010
Category: ESL Articles
Tags: at, Easier, Language, Learning, Rescue, Rhymes, scholarly journals on rhymes for preschools, Vocabulary, Want
Learning a foreign language can be enjoyable – but exasperating. Anything you can do to accelerate learning or make language acquisition more enjoyable is a valuable weapon in your learning arsenal. Kathy Steinemann shares a helpful and unique approach to this challenge.
Take a look at the following two sections of text:
Version 1
The sky is blue today. I’m sitting on the beach. A bully kicks sand in my face. Too bad for him! Here come my bodyguards!
Version 2
One, two, a sky so blue. Three, four, a sandy shore. Five, six, a bully kicks. Seven, eight, he’s sealed his fate. Nine, ten,…
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