This book offers middle and high school teachers useful suggestions and strategies for cultivating literacy in their classrooms, focusing primarily on the key skills of reading and writing. It discusses the nature of standards-based education and emphasizes the power and importance of good literature in the ELA curriculum. Included are detailed approaches to reading and writing with simple strategies for teaching close reading of complex text, as well as textual evidence and elaboration. A variety of sample performance tasks are included for commonly taught works of American and world literature as well as a variety of strategies to strengthen students reading and writing skills needed for success in college and the workplace. This book is a practical handbook for teachers, who can easily find appropriate strategies to use in their classrooms and begin implementing them right away. It is a useful collection of tips with suggestions and instructions for implementing effective and engaging literacy strategies and performance tasks.
Literacy for Learning: A Handbook of Teaching Strategies for Middle and High School Teachers is a collection of proven, effective teaching strategies to promote content area literacy and help teachers incorporate literacy learning as a means of improving learning in all subject areas. The book presents a concise overview of content area literacy research and a rationale for teachers in all subject areas. Those who teach, or are about to teach, middle and high school students, will find a variety of engaging strategies for improving student comprehension and retention of content material. Numerous examples of how the strategies can be used across the curriculum are included. 122 strategies in all are included, plus tips and suggestions for their use. This valuable, handy, and easy-to-use resource contains strategies for teaching reading, writing, and vocabulary. Each section contains numerous strategies for use across the curriculum. An additional section focuses on ways to incorporate technology and multi-media resources into teaching to promote learning. Each strategy presented includes learning objectives, Common Core State Standards connections, a concise overview, and simple, easy-to-follow instructions for implementing the strategies. Teachers can pick up this book and immediately begin using the strategies in their own classrooms. With the implementation of Common Core State Standards, it will become more important than ever for every teacher to be a literacy teacher. This book should find widespread acceptance as a handy tool to help all teachers achieve this goal.
Historians of the long eighteenth century have recently recognised that this period is central both to the history of cultural production and consumption and to the history of national and regional identity. Yet no book has, as yet, directly engaged with these two areas of interest at the same time. By uniting interest in the history of culture with the history of regional identity, Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830 is of crucial importance to a wide range of historians and intervenes in a number of highly important historical and conceptual debates in a timely and provocative way. The book makes a substantial contribution to eighteenth-century studies. Not only do these essays demonstrate that in thinking about cultural production and consumption in the eighteenth century there are important continuities as well as changes that need to be considered, but also they complicate the commonplace assumption of metropolitan-led cultural change and cultural innovation. Rather than the usual model of centre-periphery diffusion, a number of contributions show that cultural change in the provinces was happening at the same time as in, or in some cases even before, London. The essays also indicate the complex relationship between cultural consumption and social status, with some cultural forms being more inclusive than others.
For the first time in history, a new path to cancer prevention for those over 40 years of age is disclosed. The common denominator and other bioactive compounds of three different medicinal mushrooms from Japan, China and the Himalayas respected for two millennia have been discovered and Western research into them is presented. They re-arm the immune system which deteriorates as we age preventing some cancers from escaping as they usually do. They also act as a benign chemotherapy without any of the usual side effects killing cancers as they develop. Used in combination with traditional methods of cancer treatment,there is a dramatic drop in side effects of chemotherapy and radiotherapy with increased and prolonged remissions that demand immediate methodologically sound research.Just one bioactive compound has taken up 25% of Japanese Government spending on all anti-cancer agents for over 30 years. We must all re-arm our immune systems now and consider preemptive use.
Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. John F. Kennedy This quote is clear. We are well-advised to pursue success in business with purpose and direction. Business spans a wide range of skills, of which Marketing is the most dominant. This book covers the skills necessary to become successful - whether you are selling products, services, or a derivative of both. It is fascinating to note that the topics covered here by Celebrity Experts(r), most of which are marketing related, include: - Ways to build a business - Use of Social Media - Planning & Strategies for Businesses - Brands & Branding - Determination, Motivation & Commitment - Advertising in the New Economy - Mindset & Passion - The importance of ethics in business These subjects are covered by business icons that include Brian Tracy, Leigh Steinberg, Robert Allen, Ron LeGrand, and Chris Attwood & Janet Bray Attwood, among others. The wealth of business information in this book from Celebrity Experts(r) authors make it a must-read. Winston Churchill said, "Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." However, by sharing the knowledge of these proven business experts you will shorten your journey. They will help you avoid the mistakes they made along the way, and move you towards your goal quicker than you could ever do it on your own. This may truly be... "The Only Business Book You'll Ever Need.
Ever wonderderd what Biometrics are? Do you know how and why biometrics are used? The use of biometric systems and devices for identification and authentication purposes is part of modern day living and is something many people come into contact with on a regular basis. Such systems and devices are used to gain access to a system, such as a secure area. This book contains details of biometric systems and devices used for this purpose, and provides basic general information on how many of them work along with details some of the concerns people have with using these processes.
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