July 31st, 2010
Category: Literacy Articles
Tags: Bedtime, Benefits, Early, Kids, Reading, Stories
For most parents, snuggling up with their pre-school kids for a bedtime story is an eagerly-awaited and enjoyable event. It’s a rare chance for parents and children to relax together while developing an early appreciation of language and literacy through the magical world of books. But parents don’t have to wait until the toddler years before they make books a daily part of family life.
Many expectant moms read to their bumps because they know that their babies can hear – and recognise – their voice while they’re still in the womb. This is believed to help the bonding process after…
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June 27th, 2010
Category: Children Literacy
Tags: About, atheists, Biblical, Children, Literacy, point, Stories, Teach
I am an atheist, but I am also a realist. And realistically, I live in a very theistic world.
My question is, when and how do I teach my children the stories of the Bible so that they don’t believe them as literal or spiritual truth (many are still good morality tales), but so that they do understand the cultural references that surround them in this society?
We see things all the time in movies, books, plays, songs, etc that are Biblical references and that that are enhanced by the knowledge of the stories they are taken from (say the USS Samson…
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June 18th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: Breakthroughs, Grades, Literacy, Stories, Strategies, Success, teacher
- ISBN13: 9780470371824
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Teachers share advice on creating successful literacy classrooms for all students, including those who struggle
This much-needed resource is filled with lively and inspiring stories from teachers who overcame challenges with underperforming and struggling learners-many of them special needs students-to make significant breakthroughs in reading and writing instruction. The teachers reveal their trials, errors, and triumphs in how they discovered particular instructional strategies or incorporated modeling and motivational techniques that best addressed students’ learning needs and opened a path to success. Compelling and absorbing, the book includes unusual and often surprising…
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March 13th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, 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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January 19th, 2010
Category: Books
Tags: at, atheist, Bible, Biblical, Essential, Everyone, Know, Literacy, Needs, Stories
- ISBN13: 9780061718625
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Whether watching political candidates quote Jesus or tracking court cases on how the stories of Adam and Eve should be taught in schools, we are surrounded by the legacy of the Bible in our contemporary world. Every person needs to know the core Bible stories—those biblical stories that have cultural, historical, or literary significance—that lie at the foundation of Western civilization. Professor Timothy Beal argues that without knowing these core stories, we cannot fully participate in the popular, political, and especially spiritual worlds that surround us.
Have you ever been told…
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January 19th, 2010
Category: Literacy Articles
Tags: at, Autism, autism social stories, Classroom, def, Literacy, Social, social stories, social stories articles, social stories autism, Stories, www.autismsocialstories.com
Autistic children and adults have deficits in social cognition, which means they lack the ability to think in terms that are appropriate where social interactions are necessary.
This is explained using the “theory of mind” or the ability to mind read. A normally developing child will have the ability to read facial expression and body language and will make the assumption as to what another person is thinking or feeling. With autism this ability is missing.
This can however be addressed using something called “social skills stories”. The social skills story gives the autistic child a means to understand the thoughts feelings…
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December 18th, 2009
Category: Books
Tags: About, at, Britain, Commoners, English, Extraordinary, From, Great, Heroes, History, Knaves, Knights, Made, People, Queens, Rebels, Stories, tales, Treasury, True
- ISBN13: 9780316067577
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
A feast for history lovers–the whole colorful parade of English history brilliantly captured in a single volume.
From ancient times to the present day, the story of England has been laced with drama, intrigue, courage, and passion. In GREAT TALES FROM ENGLISH HISTORY, Robert Lacey recounts the remarkable episodes that shaped a nation as only a great storyteller can: by combining impeccable accuracy with the timeless drama that has made these tales live for centuries.
This new paperback edition is encyclopedic in scope, gathering together all of Robert Lacey’s great tales previously…
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