Advance vital reading comprehension skills through a balance of appealing nonfiction and fiction titles, focus on strategies and skills critical for reading comprehension, and nonfiction features such as indexes, glossaries, tables of contents, and captions.
Provides multiple thematic reading selections for each comprehension skill, allowing students to build content knowledge while giving teachers the framework for scaffolded instruction.
Other people change their names when they become famous. Many famous actors have changed their names. They may believe that their name is too ordinary. They want a name that sounds more exciting. Martial arts star Jet Li's original name ...
Explains to educators the neuropsychological functions of the brain during learning and how the brain and learning are affected by health, stress, and teaching approaches. Also suggests how the information...
Making Connections Level 4 Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions for each activity type as well as a complete answer key.
A textbook for enhancing academic reading skills among students of English.
Filled with fun, exciting, poignant tales of mother-daughter travel, this unique celebration of a special relationship follows mothers and daughters on trips to Africa, Canada, Asia, and other locales. Original.
Making Connections Second edition Level 2 Student's Book introduces fundamental reading skills and strategies such as identifying main ideas, interpreting information in charts and graphs, and preparing for reading tests.
Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson. Cazden, C. B. (1998). Classroom discourse: The language of teaching and learning. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann. Chapman, E. (2003). Assessing student engagement rates. College Park, MD: ERIC Clearinghouse ...
These essays are "a series of exercises en route to a new psychology of adolescence and of women...[and] part of a process that they also describe: of changing a tradition by including girls' voices, of listening to girls and asking again ...
This book documents those first links that students make between content they learn in their classrooms and their prior experiences.