Support current educational initiatives with a ready-to-use tool that will help you with selection, motivation, and skill building relative to titles published within the last five years. • Helps librarians promote new fiction and nonfiction to teens and to build literacy • Supports the new national and state standards through learning extensions • Offers read-alikes for titles popular with teens • Features skill-building exercises • Includes selection criteria that speak to appropriateness and appeal
At the heart of Enhancing Adolescents' Motivation for Science is a collection of research-proven strategies on how best to motivate students in science-and once students are motivated, scientific literacy soon follows.
"This treasure-trove of inventive, concrete ideas offers a gift to our profession." Roland Barth, Educator "...the book to turn to when you are working with teens, when you desperately need help, when seeking solace.
This insightful book shows educators how to: Infuse reading assignments with significance and meaning Present choices that encourage students to take charge of their learning Tap into adolescents′ social natures through group activities ...
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Taking the Lead on Adolescent Literacy presents a concrete, user-friendly, and practical guide to developing, implementing, and monitoring a schoolwide or county-wide literacy action plan.
how Sal feels after her mother has died in Sharon Creech's Walk Two Moons. Or, oh, I just thought of this—it could be a visual of Miracle, in Dancing on the Edge, by Han Nolan—someone who has lost her sense of self, doesn't even know if ...
Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents Jeffrey D. Wilhelm ... Teaching Transnational Youth— Literacy and Education in a Changing World ALLISON SKERRETT Uncommonly Good Ideas— Teaching Writing in the Common Core Era ...
Greenwillow , 1979 . Kiesel , Stanley . Skinny Malinky Leads the War for Kidness . Lodestar , 1984 . The War between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids . Dutton , 1980 . Kililea , M. Karen . Prentice - Hall , 1962. Dell , 1983 .
More than simply a vital collection development tool, this book can help librarians help young adults grow into the kind of independent readers and thinkers who will flourish at college.
New to This Edition *Chapters on new topics: building multicultural classrooms, Black girls’ digital literacies, issues of equity and access, and creating inclusive writing communities. *New chapters on core topics: academic language, ...