It?s Thanksgiving week, 1989. We?re in Big Piney and Little Piney, two hollows near the town of Garnet in the Blue Ridge Mountains. A handful of mismatched folks ? some country people, some far-flung, fancy people ? discover they have one thing in common: someone they know is sick, real sick, dying sick. August Early has never set foot in a hospital before. Maggie Dulé packs a bag despite her vow never to return to the Pineys again. Burnice Kling, R.N., is fixing to ?fire? her patient, a ?cantankerous old cauliflower of a woman? and mother to an estranged daughter named Maggie. Meanwhile, Cadence Greevey passes among them unnoticed. She?s only 14, and has got a mama who?s ailing with no one at home to help. Their paths cross at a local hospice called Solace. Suddenly, they?re caregivers, bedside improvisers, doing all they can to beat back death or hurry him on about his business.
This edition of DreamTime is specifically written for the folks reading aloud to children who may not be called Mom or Dad, but who are taking care of children just the same. They may be Gramma or Grampa, Uncle or Cousin, friend or guardian or helper -- anyone who is putting a beloved child to bed at night. This edition permits them to customize the verse to reflect who they are. The DreamTime cycle of rhyming poems and lots of child-POV illustrations tells the REAL story of bedtime. Forget oopy-goopy lullabies! This book tells the story of "Wayfaring Dream Explorers and the Folks Who Love Them." We begin at day's end, when it's all we can do to get jammies on and lights turned off. But once intrepid sleepers set sail, adventures unfold. Dream Buccaneers set off for the wilds of DreamTime, leaving their timid grown-ups behind to wait for coming dawn. The cycle of poems concludes with the promise of a gentle welcome into morning as the dream explorers return to greet the day. Fun bedtime reading includes a glossary to reinforce both the playful and literary aspects of the verse. If you're a Mom or a Dad, look for your own versions: "DreamTime" or "DreamTime for Dads." Happy reading! Happy dreaming!
This edition of DreamTime is the original version, specifically written for Moms to read aloud to their children. The DreamTime cycle of rhyming poems and lots of child-POV illustrations tells the REAL story of bedtime. Forget oopy-goopy lullabies! This book tells the story of "Wayfaring Dream Explorers and the Folks Who Love Them." We begin at day's end, when it's all we can do to get jammies on and lights turned off. But once intrepid sleepers set sail, adventures unfold. Dream Buccaneers set off for the wilds of DreamTime, leaving their timid grown-ups behind to wait for coming dawn. The cycle of poems concludes with the promise of a gentle welcome into morning as the dream explorers return to greet the day. Fun bedtime reading includes a glossary to reinforce both the playful and literary aspects of the verse. If you're a Dad or another caretaker, look for your own versions: "DreamTime for Dads" or "DreamTime for You." Happy reading! Happy dreaming!
Once upon a lullaby, children everywhere fall asleep in the arms of those who love them. Their sleeping goes lightly. Their waking comes gently. Once upon a lullaby, bedtime is a beautiful time for children everywhere-a balmy drifting into dreams, safe in the arms of those who love them. ONCE UPON A LULLABY invokes just such a mood. Light and gentle, these lyrical verses invite Baby to sleep, charmed by a bookful of fun, full-color, child's-eye-view illustrations. These poems were originally written as lyrics to a collection of songs recorded by soprano, Jenni Samuelson and pianist, Steven Thomas. Gorgeous melodies and lilting piano lines reinforce the sweetness of the verse. Readers can look for the companion recording of "Once Upon a Lullaby: Beautiful Songs for Bedtime" at www.ideasexpressed.org.
This edition of DreamTime is specifically written for Dads to read aloud to their children. The DreamTime cycle of rhyming poems and child-POV illustrations tells the REAL story of bedtime. Forget oopy-goopy lullabies! This book tells the story of "Wayfaring Dream Explorers and the Folks Who Love Them." We begin at day's end, when it's all we can do to get jammies on and lights turned off. But once intrepid sleepers set sail, adventures unfold. Dream Buccaneers set off for the wilds of DreamTime, leaving their timid grown-ups behind to wait for coming dawn. The cycle of poems concludes with the promise of a gentle welcome into morning as all dream explorers return to greet the day. Fun bedtime reading includes a glossary of new and wacky words. Happy reading! Happy dreaming!
Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. Adopting a critical inquiry approach, it demonstrates how the Standards’ highest and best intentions for student success can be implemented from a critical, culturally relevant perspective firmly grounded in current literacy learning theory and research. It provides specific examples of teachers using the critical inquiry curriculum framework of identifying problems and issues, adopting alternative perspectives, and entertaining change in their classrooms to illustrate how the Standards can not only be addressed but also surpassed through engaging instruction. The Second Edition provides new material on adopting a critical inquiry approach to enhance student engagement and critical thinking planning instruction to effectively implement the CCSS in the classroom fostering critical response to literary and informational texts using YA literature and literature by authors of color integrating drama activities into literature and speaking/listening instruction teaching informational, explanatory, argumentative, and narrative writing working with ELL students to address the language Standards using digital tools and apps to respond to and create digital texts employing formative assessment to provide supportive feedback preparing students for the PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments using the book’s wiki site http://englishccss.pbworks.com for further resources
Dyslexia: Theories, Assessment and Support offers a broad perspective on dyslexia, providing a range of views from theory to practice which help explain the continued controversy surrounding the condition. Offering a framework on which to understand the concept of dyslexia, the book considers procedures that can both identify the condition and help support those with it. With a focus on self-concept, the authors highlight ways to positively influence both literacy acquisition and individual well-being. This book is ideal reading for those taking courses on dyslexia or literacy learning difficulties within education, psychology and related disciplines. It will be of great interest to specialist teachers, special education staff, educational psychologists and those in related occupations.
Completely revised and updated, this seventh edition of a well-received desk reference offers in one volume a comprehensive review of United States (US) copyright, patent, and trademark laws. Like its previous editions, the book’s thorough and sophisticated treatment of this complex material escapes the cumbersome overelaboration of a multivolume treatise on the one hand and a superficial “nutshell” on the other hand. Maintaining the systematic structure that makes it easy for users to zero in on any particular matter, the new edition incorporates the changes that have entered into force since the sixth edition and expertly examines their effects. The three major categories of copyright, patent, and trademark are covered in turn—along with a fourth part on chip protection—with detailed but concise examination and analysis of such issues and topics as the following and much more: subject matter of protection; conditions of protection; registration procedures; scope of exclusive rights; transfer of interests; fair use; rights in unregistered marks; protection of computer software, code, and databases; remedies and defenses; and procedural issues in infringement actions. The authors examine significant case law, updated for this edition, in the course of their analysis. With its detailed citations and readily accessible and complete subject coverage, this latest edition is sure to retain its usefulness as a quick reference or desk book for intellectual property practitioners, in-house counsel, patent agents, academics, and librarians, as well as for anyone interested in understanding US intellectual property law.
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