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Presents a brief look at the life of Pocahontas.
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This book presents fresh, innovative, practical, classroom-tested "best practices" to help students proactively develop stronger literacy skills through dynamic listening, reciting, reading, and writing Author Keith Polette provides teachers with the precise tools they need to help their students develop stronger literacy skills. Unlike other texts, this book articulates the benefits and the processes that teachers need to help their students make important gains in reading, reciting, and writing. The mix of theory and practice in this book provides teachers with the why and how of teaching literacy. It emphasizes the important connection of student recitation (or reading aloud) and writing. Polette demonstrates that reciting, reading, and writing are intimately linked and shows that by helping students improve in one area they can improve in the others. Read and Write It Out Loud presents a lively narrative, clear organization, exceptional pedagogy and special features that bring reading aloud to life in your classroom..
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Written as a springboard to teaching grammar, this book is designed to help teachers of grades 4--8 teach students to use the sixteen essential grammatical elements (seven parts of speech, six phrases, and three clauses) in their writing. Exercises, strategies, and examples provide a guide for the teacher about how students can learn, expand, and transfer the grammar skills acquired to their own writing. The book is organized so that teachers can either pick and choose lessons that are tailored to meet their students' specific needs, or they can teach the material in a clear and effective scope and sequence from beginning to end. Teachers Rave about Keith Polette's New Way to Teach Writing! "I like the writing exercises that are incorporated right from the start and the interesting approach to getting students to develop their understanding in their own words. I also would recommend the book to other teachers because it has universal appeal for any teacher trying to improve their own understanding of grammar and writing or who is looking for another good resource for their students." --Lona Garrison, Gwinnett County Public Schools, GA "I think this book is done very well. Teachers could use this book as a reference tool in the classroom." --Deedra Murray, Edyth J. Hayes Middle School, KY Take a look inside: *Focuses on one grammatical element at a time to assist teachers in building on students' prior knowledge. *Addresses such topics as sentence building, combining, and imitation, writer's voice, word play, poetry, editing, and guided or process writing..
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Polette offers suggestions for creative reproduction, elaboration, rearrangements and transformations of text to help children connect reading content to their own experiences. An excellent resource for teachers of the gifted, these books and activities can be used in any classroom or media center..
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The desert Southwest is the unlikely setting for this humorous variation on the classic fairy tale, Jack and the Beanstalk This bilingual book is presented as embedded text with the story told mostly in English and a sprinkling of Spanish throughout. The book ends with keyword vocabulary page to jumpstart language learning. Dusty desert feel is captured in deep pastel colored illustrations. English only and Spanish only versions coming Fall 2008..
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Did you know A famous French chef created her greatest recipe BEFORE she learned to cook! The first airmail letters went by train. McDonald's opened its first restaurant as a barbecue stand. The best way to prevent a toothache is to wear a dead mole around your neck. These and many other wacky but true facts serve as springboards to research about people, places, food, animals, and historical events. Students are asked to create poems, games, quizzes and other products in lieu of traditional written reports in this new book of ideas keyed to standards in writing, reading comprehension and information literacy. Based on one of Nancy Polette's most popular workshops (Research Without Copying), this book will appeal to school librarians and teachers in grades 4-8. Extensive bibliographies of recommended resources add to the usability of this title..
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Enjoy this twisted fairy tell in a humorous retelling of the classic Jack and the Beanstalk The desert Southwest is an unexpected backdrop filled with prickly pears and a giant that helps Paco to find his father. This is the English only version. It is also available in Spanish only and bilingual editions..
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Presents a brief look at the life of Mae Jemison.
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A book that every children's librarian will love, this series of games and quizzes (cryptograms, word searches, scavenger hunts, plays, and much more) will encourage reading, reading competitions, and games. Covering all types of children's literature from Mother Goose to the Classics to the Award winners, this is a hands-on book made up of reproducible game and quiz pages that will be easily and often used in school and public library programming. The quizzes can be easily adapted to Battle of the Books programs and other library- and classroom-based literature competition programs..
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