Thứ Sáu, 15 tháng 9, 2017

Creating Childrens Art Games for Emotional Support by Vicky Barber

Game playing is a highly effective way of engaging children and has long been acknowledged as an important means of psychological therapy. This book offers an abundance of fun games that help children to confront personal problems and issues in a light-hearted yet meaningful way.
 
 
These are games with a difference, as they must be constructed before they can be played. The creation aspect involves collaboration and cooperation within a team, and instils an empowering sense of ownership in the creators. By the time the game is ready to be played, children are confident, thoroughly engaged and ready to explore issues in a supportive environment.
 
 
Each game has been tried and tested by the author, and is proven to really work. This book is an essential tool for therapists, counsellors, social workers, youth workers and teachers supporting children and young people.

Cooperative Learning in The Classroom Putting it Into Practice

This guide provides a step-by-step approach for implementing cooperative learning, covers the key factors that make this method work, and provides guidelines for measuring the program's effectiveness.


Computer-Enhanced and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning Emerging Issues and Trends

As the field of Information and Communication Technologies rapidly expands, the applications to language learning continue to grow. Computer-Enhanced and Mobile-Assisted Language Learning: Emerging Issues and Trends compiles the latest research into computer-enhanced language learning, as well as the integration of mobile devices into new language acquisition.
 
 
Though new information is constantly coming out as technologies continue to evolve, this important new follow-up publication will be distributed worldwide among academic and professional institutions and will be instrumental in providing researchers, scholars, students, and professionals access to the latest knowledge related to research on computer-enhanced and mobile assisted language learning.
 

Comprehensive Read and Comprehend Reproducible Workbook Grade 2-3 - Stick Out Your Neck Series

Drawing Conclusions: Each of these twenty pages contains a poem, a group of sentences and three paragraphs. Reading levels range from 2.1 to 3.9. The directions on each page instruct students to read each passage, draw a conclusion from it and then underline the best answer from four listed.
 
 
Vocabulary Development: Each of these twenty pages contains an interesting story with six multiple choice questions. Questions 1·3 deal with definitions. Question 4 deals with pronoun referents and questions 5 and 6 deal with synonyms and antonyms. Reading levels of the stories range from 2.2 to 3.9 and appear in order from easiest to the most difficult.
 
 
Sequencing: On each of these twenty pages, the students will be putting many different
things in their proper sequence, such as: cartoons, words in a sentence, phrases in a
sentence, events in a story, steps in a recipe and more. The stories on pages 51·60 are written for reading levels from 2.5 to 3.8. This is presented in an effective learning order beginning with pages that require little or no reading and progressing to stories.
 
 
Main Idea: These twenty pages approach the skill of finding the main idea from the basic concept of categorizing and progressing to finding the main idea of a paragraph. Some of the activities included are: categorizing lists of words, finding the main idea of a list of words, matching poems and paragraphs to the correct titles, underlining topic sentences and more. Reading levels of the paragraphs and short stories range from 2.3 to 3.9
 
 
Following Directions: Each of these twenty pages contains simple directions for the student to read and follow. The students will also be working with these skill areas: addition and subtraction, fractions, alphabetical order, long and short vowel sounds, suffixes, plurals and more. It is not necessary to present them in any specific order.
 

Commonsense Methods for Children with Special Educational Needs 6th Edition

In addition, the book includes a new chapter offering a description and critique of mainstream teaching methods, with particular reference to their suitability for specific purposes and their efficacy in addressing students’ special needs.


In all cases the practical advice the author gives is embedded within a clear theoretical context supported by current research and classroom practice. Offering practical advice on a wide range of suitable intervention methods, this is essential reading for practising teachers and student teachers worldwide.


Collins Guide to Letter Writing by P H Rivers

Contents
PART 1
 
Anyone Can Write 9
Develop a Style 16
Add to your Word Armoury 25
Hackneyed Expressions 30
Write it Correctly 36
Write it Clearly 51
Spelling Made Easier 62
Mistakes People Make 75
Psychology in Business 90
Business Letter Technique 98
Letters that Sell 103
Routine Business Letters 113
Win that Job 118
Be Yourself 127
Formal Private Letters 133
Informal Private Letters 143
Forms of Address 156
 
PART 2
Examples of Letters 177


Challenges Galore Vocabulary Building Puzzles Grades 5-8+

Since students enjoy solving puzzles and decoding messages, many of the challenges provide the students with an opportunity to do this. Blank templates will be provided for some of the activities to give students the tools they'll need to create their own challenges to share with their classmates.
 
 
Most of the challenges have from six to eight activity sheets. As students tackle the first or second sheet, strategies are being developed and the students acquire an understanding of what is expected in each challenge.
 
 
Similarly, when the activity is taken up, the students may also learn strategies that fellow classmates used to get the answers to some of the questions.
 
 
As a result, each subsequent challenge becomes that much easier.