Charles Raschka's Books

Teaching Children's Literature

It's Critical!

By: Christine Leland,Mitzi Lewison,Jerome Charles Harste

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Teaching Children's Literature

It's Critical!

By: Christine Leland,Mitzi Lewison,Jerome Charles Harste

Offers a fresh perspective on how to implement childrens literature across the curriculum in ways that are both effective and purposeful. It invites multiple ways of engaging with literature that extend beyond the genre and elements approach and also addresses potential problems or issues that teachers may confront.

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250

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Routledge

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ISBN 10

0415508665

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9780415508667

What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests

(From Someone Who Has Written Them)

By: Charles Fuhrken

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What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests

(From Someone Who Has Written Them)

By: Charles Fuhrken

When he was a student struggling to concentrate on dreadfully boring passages of standardized reading tests, Charles Fuhrken remembers thinking to himself, 'Who writes this stuff?' He had no idea that one day it would be him. ' Fuhrken has spent years working as a writer for several major testing companies, and he believes that what he's learned about testing could be very usefuleven liberatingfor teachers interested in teaching effective reading strategies as well as preparing students for reading tests. In What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests (From Someone Who Has Written Them), Fuhrken' takes the mystery out of reading tests. He explains how reading tests are created, how standards are interpreted and assessed, and how students can apply their knowledge of reading to standardized tests.' ' What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests sets the record straight about the myths and realities of tests and offers extensive, practical strategies that help students perform well on test day. This ready to use, easy to understand resource provides a wealth of information about reading tests, including high-quality preparation materials; samples of the most frequently assessed reading standards; and more than thirty engaging, core-reading activities. ' Tests require a special kind of savvy, a kind of critical thinking and knowledge-application that is not always a part of classroom reading experiences. That's why teachers need to provide students with sound, specific information about reading tests. Only then can students feel prepared and confident on test day.

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273

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Taylor & Francis

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ISBN 10

1003840604

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9781003840602

Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature

By: Miriam G. Martinez,Junko Yokota,Charles Temple

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Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature

By: Miriam G. Martinez,Junko Yokota,Charles Temple

Much of teachers’ attention these days is focused on having students read closely to ferret out the author’s intended meaning and the devices used to convey that meaning. But we cannot forget to guide students to have moving engagements with literature, because they need to make strong personal connections to books of merit if they are to become the next generation of readers: literate people with awareness of and concern for the diversity of human beings around them and in different times and places. Fortunately, guiding both students’ personal engagement with literature and their close reading to appreciate the author’s message and craft are not incompatible goals. This book enthusiastically and intelligently addresses both imperatives, first surveying what is gained when students are immersed in literature; then celebrating and explicating the main features of literature students need to understand to broaden their tastes and deepen their engagement, at the same time they meet external standards; then presenting a host of active methods for exploring all major genres of children’s books; and finally presenting suggestions for interdisciplinary teaching units grounded in literature. Created by noted leaders in the fields of children’s literature and literacy, the book is enlivened by recurring features such as suggested reading lists, issues for discussion, links to technology, and annotations of exemplary books.

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231

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Rowman & Littlefield

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ISBN 10

1475821522

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9781475821529

Essential Play Therapy Techniques

Time-tested Approaches

By: Charles E. Schaefer,Donna Cangelosi

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Essential Play Therapy Techniques

Time-tested Approaches

By: Charles E. Schaefer,Donna Cangelosi

Highly practical and user friendly, this book presents 58 play therapy techniques that belong in every child clinician's toolbox. The expert authors draw from multiple theoretical orientations to showcase powerful, well-established approaches applicable to a broad range of childhood problems. Activities, needed materials, and variations of each technique are succinctly described. Of critical importance for today's evidence-based practitioner, each chapter also includes a historical perspective on the technique at hand, a rationale explaining its therapeutic power, and a review of relevant empirical findings. The book enables readers to determine which strategies are appropriate for a particular child or group and rapidly incorporate them into practice.

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295

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Guilford Publications

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ISBN 10

1462524494

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9781462524495

Feline Clinical Parasitology

By: Dwight D. Bowman,Charles M. Hendrix,David S. Lindsay,Stephen C. Barr

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Feline Clinical Parasitology

By: Dwight D. Bowman,Charles M. Hendrix,David S. Lindsay,Stephen C. Barr

Although there are books available dealing with canine parasitology, there is at present no book detailing parasites that offers clinical information specific to felines. Cats differ significantly from dogs in their parasitic infections and infestations. Although dogs and cats do share a few parasites, the vast majority of the parasites of these pets are specific to either cats or dogs, not to both. This must-have reference offers an in-depth examination of feline parasites. Topics covered include parasite identification, history, geographic distribution, pathogeneisis, epidemiology, zoonosis, diagnosis, treatment, control, and prevention. Because of the immense worldwide popularity of cats and due to the amount of travel undertaken by cats and their owners, the authors have produced a book that is international in scope. Consequently, this exhaustive reference has strong appeal to practitioners and veterinary parasitologists in North America and around the world.

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482

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470376597

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9780470376591

Dictionary for a Better World

Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z

By: Irene Latham,Charles Waters

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Dictionary for a Better World

Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z

By: Irene Latham,Charles Waters

How can we make the world a better place? This inspiring resource for middle-grade readers is organized as a dictionary; each entry presents a word related to creating a better world, such as ally, empathy, or respect. For each word, there is a poem, a quote from an inspiring person, a personal anecdote from the authors, and a "try it" prompt for an activity. This second poetic collaboration from Irene Latham and Charles Waters builds upon themes of diversity and inclusiveness from their previous book Can I Touch Your Hair? Poems of Race, Mistakes, and Friendship. Illustrations from Iranian-British artist Mehrdokht Amini offer readers a rich visual experience. "Latham and Waters's personal stories are plainspoken and relatable . . . and the suggested actions, accessible. . . The approach creates multiple pathways for engagement. Extensive supplementary materials include an index of poetic forms."—starred, Publishers Weekly

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123

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Millbrook Press

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ISBN 10

1541590805

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9781541590809

Children's Books in Children's Hands

An Introduction to Their Literature

By: Charles A. Temple

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Children's Books in Children's Hands

An Introduction to Their Literature

By: Charles A. Temple

Offers a comprehensive approach to teaching children's literature by providing appropriate depth, and using full-color illustrations from outstanding children's books. Unlike books that simply describe a great many children's books, this book takes the reader inside the workings of children's literature, focusing on ways literature elicits responses from young readers, genre by genre and book by book.

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610

Publisher

Prentice Hall

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ISBN 10

0205169953

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9780205169955

Book's by Charles Raschka

Teaching Children's Literature

Teaching Children's Literature

What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests

What Every Elementary Teacher Needs to Know About Reading Tests

Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature

Thinking and Learning through Children's Literature

Essential Play Therapy Techniques

Essential Play Therapy Techniques

Feline Clinical Parasitology

Feline Clinical Parasitology

Dictionary for a Better World

Dictionary for a Better World

Children's Books in Children's Hands

Children's Books in Children's Hands

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