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The Shaping of Thought

A Teacher's Guide to Metacognitive Mapping and Critical Thinking in Response to Literature

By: Frank T. Lyman,Charlene Lopez,Arlene Mindus

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The Shaping of Thought

A Teacher's Guide to Metacognitive Mapping and Critical Thinking in Response to Literature

By: Frank T. Lyman,Charlene Lopez,Arlene Mindus

The Shaping of Thought: A Teacher’s Guide to Metacognitive Mapping and CriticalThinking in Response to Literature provides a strategic and structured approach to the use of cognitive mapping in response to literature. The allied metacognitive strategy of ThinkTrix, incorporating seven basic thinking types, or mind actions, has emerged from elementary student-created cognitive maps known as ThinkLinks, a student friendly term. Students had labeled their thinking on the ThinkLinks and from the hundreds of work samples, the seven types of thinking were identified. Placed in a matrix with focal points, the thinking types became the ThinkTrix. Originally thought to be cues for teacher questioning, students soon took on the mind actions for their own questioning, responding, and mapping. The book offers a procedural and exemplified guide to metacognitive mapping and is built upon the central purpose of student-generated connections between life and literature. Once teachers and students have adopted or adapted the suggested framework and strategies in The Shaping of Thought, they will always have visual andaware representation of thinking as a learning tool. Problem solving, decision making, inquiring, and creating will have joined with an indispensible means to lifetime learning and to the goal of constructing what Jerome Bruner called “structures of knowledge”. Along with a teaching strategy, the book includes strong philosophical underpinnings with “The Kaleidoscope of Learning”, teacher/student tools, numerous activities, and samples of student work. Taken seriously, the Guide will deepen the understanding of literature and life in the direction of the “Big Ideas”, as envisioned by McTighe and Wiggins and by so many teachers.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1475830335

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9781475830330

The Quilt Before the Storm

By: Arlene Sachitano

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The Quilt Before the Storm

By: Arlene Sachitano

A storm is bearing down on Foggy Point, Washington, promising strong winds, flooding and power outages. Harriet Truman and the Loose Threads quilt group are sewing flannel rag quilts and making plastic tarps from grocery bags for the denizens of a local homeless camp. Then one of the homeless men is strangled, and a few days later a second man is also murdered. Were they victims of a serial killer, or of someone closer to home? With the detectives of the Foggy Point Police department trapped on the wrong side of a rock slide that isolates the community, and dead bodies at the homeless camp, it’s up to Harriet and the Threads to figure out who is killing people and why—before they become the next victims.

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228

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Zumaya Enigma

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193484148X

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9781934841488

A Love So Strong and When Love Comes Home

An Anthology

By: Arlene James

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A Love So Strong and When Love Comes Home

An Anthology

By: Arlene James

Family and togetherness go hand in hand in Arlene James's heartwarming stories. A Love So Strong As a pastor, Marcus Wheeler knows it's his duty to help Nicole Archer and her little brother. Yet the more he comes to know the siblings, the more duty gives way to care. And before long, care just might turn into love. When Love Comes Home The return of her long-missing son is all Paige Ellis could want—until she runs into the problems that come with him. It seems that making Paige's dreams come true will take help. Attorney Grady Jones brought her son home…can he bring this family a happy ending?

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508

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Harlequin

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1459219937

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9781459219939

Let It Be Written

By: Arlene Hill

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Let It Be Written

By: Arlene Hill

Summer events, as recorded by various members of the Bradshaw family and cousin, Leon Frank, through letters and journals; demonstrating different viewpoints.

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184

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Lulu.com

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1329041968

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9781329041967

Make Quilts Not War

By: Arlene Sachitano

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Make Quilts Not War

By: Arlene Sachitano

It’s wintertime in Foggy Point, Washington, and tourists are as scarce as gold-plated thimbles at a thrift store. The denizens of the town decide that a colorful 1960s-themed festival is just the event to bring people out and get them moving and, hopefully, spending their money in the community. Clad in bellbottom jeans, granny dresses and afro wigs, the Loose Threads quilt group is excited to participate in the associated quilt display. All, that is, except Jenny Logan, the only member who has an authentic quilt from that era. Reluctantly, she agrees to display and talk about her quilt. A costumed participant is shot in front of Jenny’s quilt. Coincidence? Or is the quilt’s past endangering its owner’s future?

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253

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Zumaya Enigma

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1612711413

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9781612711416

Desert Rose

By: J. Arlene Culiner

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Desert Rose

By: J. Arlene Culiner

Rose Badger is the local flirt, and if the other inhabitants of backwoods Blake’s Folly, Nevada, don’t approve, she couldn’t care less. With a disastrous marriage and a dead-end career far behind her, settling down is the last thing she intends to do. Newcomer Jonah Livingstone is intriguing, but with his complicated life, he’s off limits for anything other than friendship. Besides, Rose has a secret world of her own—one she won’t give up for any man. The last person geologist Jonah Livingstone expected to meet in a semi-ghost town is the sparkling and lovely Rose Badger. But Rose, always surrounded by many admirers, doesn’t seem inclined to choose a favorite. So why fret? Jonah keeps his personal life well hidden…and that's the best way to avoid disappointment.

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200

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The Wild Rose Press Inc

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1509248625

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9781509248629

A Love So Strong

By: Arlene James

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A Love So Strong

By: Arlene James

In need of a wife, Pastor Marcus Wheeler was sure God would send him a good woman—anyone except Nicole Archer. Though she was kind and beautiful, she was far too young and unconventional to be a proper minister's wife. She couldn't possibly be the one for him. But the more time he spent with Nicole, the more he marveled at her strength and spirit. Nicole made juggling school and family responsibilities seem easy, yet Marcus knew he could help ease her burdens—and make her smile. Sometimes God's plan isn't what one expects….

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263

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Steeple Hill

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1459201450

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9781459201453

Sidewalk Tales

A Compilation of 17 Short Stories of the Best Years of My Life

By: Arlene Rogers Wilhite

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Sidewalk Tales

A Compilation of 17 Short Stories of the Best Years of My Life

By: Arlene Rogers Wilhite

Sidewalk Tales is a compilations of seventeen short stories about events that happened in my life and were centered around happening on sidewalks. I always wanted to write about my life story because I felt that I could help someone who might have gone through some of the hardships I did and to share the joys I had as a child and student coming up in the streets and schools of Los Angeles California. This book could have been called porch tales or school tales and even life’s tales; but Side walk Tales came about as I walk along the sidewalks of San Bernardino, California, and stumped my toe on a rock that lie on a sidewalk pane. I noticed names carved in the cement and became interested in what those names meant. Why would anyone write their names in cement, particularly across from the San Bernardino train station? And as my mind began to create stories about those names, I began to wonder about the many times. Something had happened to me on a sidewalk, and I remember saying if only sidewalks could talk (like if the fly on the walk could talk), what stories could be told, and hence the title of my book came to life. What made this slab of cement even more exciting to me is when I mentioned it to one of my step-daughters and found out that she and her sister knew the guys whose names were engraved in that cement. I knew then it was a sign for me to sit down and write my book. I had found my approach because I didn’t want to write an autobiography or a wellness book, but I wanted to write about my life in a way that was for anyone to understand and with the hopes that it would heal someone. This book has been healing for me as a writer who experienced growth from each story held deep within me, but I knew it was only through telling my stories would that my healing would come, a self-healing with a spiritual guidance of some sort; and I hope that it is a portal to someone else’s wellness for whatever reason is needed.

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Page Publishing Inc

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168456011X

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The Shaping of Thought

A Teacher's Guide to Metacognitive Mapping and Critical Thinking in Response to Literature

By: Frank T. Lyman,Charlene Lopez,Arlene Mindus

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A Teacher's Guide to Metacognitive Mapping and Critical Thinking in Response to Literature

By: Frank T. Lyman,Charlene Lopez,Arlene Mindus

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Rowman & Littlefield

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The Shaping of Thought

The Shaping of Thought

The Quilt Before the Storm

The Quilt Before the Storm

A Love So Strong and When Love Comes Home

A Love So Strong and When Love Comes Home

Let It Be Written

Let It Be Written

Make Quilts Not War

Make Quilts Not War

Desert Rose

Desert Rose

A Love So Strong

A Love So Strong

Sidewalk Tales

Sidewalk Tales

The Shaping of Thought

The Shaping of Thought

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