Thứ Năm, 9 tháng 11, 2017

Lift and Look Science Mini-Books and Manipulatives Grades K-2

Lift, look, and read! Science is simple and fun with these easy-to-make reproducible mini-books and manipulatives that are perfect for young learners. Includes Butterfly Pop-Up Book, What-Lives-in-a Pond?

Lift & Look, Inside-a-Tooth Flap Book, Changing Moon Wheel, and more! Comes complete with background information, easy how-to’s, step-by-step lessons, and "Explore More!" extension activities! 


Language Teaching Research and Language Pedagogy by Rod Ellis

This book examines current research centered on the second language classroom and the implications of this research for both the teaching and learning of foreign languages. It offers illuminating insights into the important relationship between research and teaching, and the inherent complexities of the teaching and learning of foreign languages in classroom settings.
 
 
Offers an accessible overview of a range of research on instruction and learning in the L2 classroom
Bridges the relationship between research, teachers, and learners
 
 
Helps evolve the practice of dedicated current language teachers with research findings that suggest best practices for language teaching


Intercultural Language Teaching and Learning

This wide-ranging survey of issues in intercultural language teaching and learning covers everything from core concepts to program evaluation, and advocates a fluid, responsive approach to teaching language that reflects its central role in fostering intercultural understanding.


Includes coverage of theoretical issues defining language, culture, and communication, as well as practice–driven issues such as classroom interactions, technologies, programs, and language assessment Examines systematically the components of language teaching: language itself, meaning, culture, learning, communicating, and assessments, and puts them in social and cultural context Features numerous examples throughout, drawn from various languages, international contexts, and frameworks Incorporates a decade of in–depth research and detailed documentation from the authors’ collaborative work with practicing teachers Provides a much–needed addition to the sparse literature on intercultural aspects of language education

In the Loop - A Reference Guide to American English Idioms 2nd Edition

In The Loop is a reference guide to American English idioms. It will not only help students learn the meaning of American idioms, but also give them an understanding of the history, culture, values, and beliefs these idioms reflect.


In addition to the idioms themselves, the book contains lists of idioms by theme, some ready-to-use classroom activities, and an index that identifies the original listing and any cross-references to the idiom.


In Defense of Reading Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century

Written by influential scholar-critic and award-winning Daniel R. Schwarz, In Defense of Reading: Teaching Literature in the Twenty-First Century is a passionate and joyful defense of the pleasures of reading. This stimulating book provides valuable insights for teachers and students on why we read and how we read when we embark on the odyssey of reading.
 
 
 - Provides valuable insights into why and how we read
 
 - Addresses issues and problems in the contemporary university and offers insights into the future
 
 - Explores the life of the mind, the rewards and joys of committed teaching, and the relationship between teaching and scholarship in the contemporary university
 
 - Draws on the author's forty years of teaching experience
 
 - Following his long term commitment to close reading and historicism, Schwarz shows how the best literary criticism must both respect text and context
 
 - Contains insightful and important readings of a broad range of texts, including those by Joyce, Woolf, Conrad, Forster, Gordimer, and Spiegelman's Maus
 

Storytown Spelling Practice Book Grade 3

StoryTown is a K-6 Reading/Language Arts program with a 2+2 then Review instructional design for skill and strategy development, plus differentiated instruction that meets the needs of all students.
 
 
Spelling Practice Book for students, grade 2, includes assignments, answers and recommendations


Handbook of Resilience in Children 2nd Edition

The second edition of the Handbook of Resilience in Children updates and expands on its original focus of resilience in children who overcome adversity to include its development in those not considered at risk, leading to better outcomes for all children across the lifespan.
 
 
Expert contributors examine resilience in relation to environmental stressors, as a phenomenon in child and adolescent disorders, and as a means toward positive adaptation into adulthood. New and revised chapters explore strategies for developing resilience in the family, the therapist’s office, and the school as well as its nurturance in caregivers and teachers.