Human Heritage: A World History's unique storytelling approach makes world history accessible for every student. Easy-to-read text and eye-catching images invite students to explore the history of the world and its people.
Reading age for native speakers: Middle School students
An excellent resource for all teachers. There are lots of ideas to help activate students background knowledge. There are ideas to teach context clues, words walls, prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
This is a great book that explains how students learn new words and build their vocabulary. It gives you strategies that will allow students to hold onto what they learn and begin to use new vocabulary in their everyday language. Excellent for professional development.
This dictionary is one of a series designed for use in schools. It is intended for students of astronomy, but we hope that it will also be helpful to other science students and to anyone interested in the subject.
This fifth edition has been extensively revised and extended and now contains over 3700 headwords covering the terminology of modern astronomy. A totally new feature of this edition is the inclusion of over 1500 pronunciations for terms that are not in everyday use. A number of appendixes have been included containing useful astronomical data. There is also a list of Web sites and a bibliography. A guide to using the dictionary has also been added to this latest version of the book.
In Literacy Strategies for Grades 4–12: Reinforcing the Threads of Reading, Karen Tankersley provides a multiplicity of practical, research-based reading strategies tailored specifically for use with older students. These students may no longer have a reading class as part of the school day, but they are still developing their reading skills—and every teacher contributes to that effort.
Tankersley here focuses on the six foundational "threads" necessary for effective reading—phonemic awareness, phonics and decoding, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and higher-order thinking—only this time with a focus on the last four threads, which are especially pertinent to the higher grades.
The activities that transpire within the classroom either help or hinder students' learning. Any meaningful discussion of educational renewal, therefore, must focus explicitly and directly on the classroom, and on the teaching and learning that occur within it. This book presents a case for the development of classrooms in which students are encouraged to construct deep understandings of important concepts.
