Schools and Instruction Books

This book is filled with quality hints and tips on how to organize a choral program at school! For the beginning teacher, it is an essential guide to help them understand what is needed to be a successful choral teacher and run a successful program at school, or as an extracurricular activity. Adversely, I find the book focuses on after-school choirs too much, but if this is what you need information on, you have a great book. The book has some very interesting suggestions on discipline within the choral group. There are also excellent musical suggestions and an excellent section on how to present choral pieces to a variety of group levels from beginner to advanced.

This is a well done cartooning book. As an amatuer with only a hint of talent at drawing, I gained a great deal fromt this book. It helps you to see the simple shapes that most cartoons start from and how to build upon it. It is more geared toward the teen audience, but adults and even young children could gain much from it. The directions are simple to follow and there are tons of examples and illustrations. Even a non-artist like me was able to turn out some impressive cartoons. This would be a great book for anyone interested in drawing and/or cartooning.

The Civil War is a period of history that many students arefascinated in. This book has pages of connons, soldiers, horses,towers, architecture, ships, artillery, trains and everything else that played a part in this time period. It is easy and well explained and gives one the confidence to grab pencil, paper and supplies and begin! A lovely gift and a must for classrooms!

As an adult Historian I actually enjoyed reading this book, finding it a great resource on a topic most history books only touch base on. Not so here and though it's an excellent book for children, adults might enjoy it if you're not into heavy reading as it's works well for a handy resource, too. Though not a thick book by most accounts, it does however cover information on various crats used during the earliest Colonial era in America, ranging from the tools and techniques used by such tradesmen like coopers, joiners, woodworders to masons, sawyers, bricklawyers, builders, metalworkers.

Bernardine S. Stevens includes sections about silversmiths, blacksmiths, farriers, and leather workers, and papermakers, printers, bookbinders, and more. Stevens didn't leave out the knowlege shared by Native Americans either, and how they assisted early settlers - something I found of interest while researching my family history. His thoughtful writing skills would be an easy read for any child, yet older adults might find this book substantial, or even one new to genealogy. As an American, I love my country as this book actually helped me understand about traditional skills this countries pioneer settlers brought with them which helped them survive in unknown territories which Stevens investiges for the reader. I especially enjoyed the various line art depicting colonial craftspeople working at their trade and there is descriptive parts explaining various roles such as indentured servants and enslaved workers. This part actually helped me comprehend a bit more (in more simplier terms) about this type of labor because my 8th great grandfather was indentured, himself.

I highly recommend this book to anyone wishing their children or even their family members to understand a bit more on the subject of early colonial period trades, and why they should be referred to as skills - they were. The lessons of Native Americans helping pioneers is invaluable as it lead to very foundation of our labor force today - to them they're hard-learned labors were "crafts," like an "art." At the very least, you and your child will walk away with a much higher respect and appreciation about our early pioneer settlers and just how intelligent, and crafty they were.

Fred Herrons latest collection of stories is so extrodinary that there is not a word in the english language to describe it. I shall have to invent one. Scrumptulescent! it is scrumptulescent! I would much rather read Mr. Herron's books then do anything else, even attending my brothers plays! I cannot wait for his follow up book which is tentatively titled "Murder at the Super Bowl"

This book was shown to me by a teacher in my school and found it very useful in teaching Guided Reading. I couldn't wait to purchase one for myself. I gained experience and knowledge through reading these well thought out pages. There are lists and guidelines which help in preparing lesons. Whether you are a first year teacher or a 20 year veteran like myself, this book will aim to please.

This is a great book for anyone interested in educational technology. The author provides a historical look at how computers have been used in schools. Although, the book was written for administrators, it is a good read and valuable resource for researchers, teachers, parents and students. Unfortunately, the book is outdated as it was published in 1994. It is also out of print.

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College-level education holdings will also appreciate the 2nd updated edition of Grace Sammon's CREATING AND SUSTAINING SMALL LEARNING COMMUNITIES: STRATEGIES AND TOOLS FOR TRANSFORMING HIGH SCHOOLS. It's been fully revised to reflect the latest research and practices covering school teams and curriculum, and pairs a cd-rom tool kit with over 30 planning templates with tips on how to create and foster effective school-based teams for better decision-making processes.

I used this texbook in Elementary Reading Methods classes at Illinois State University. I found it to be a practical, reader-friendly textbook that my students enjoyed very much. I especially appreciated the fact that it contained much valuable information about teaching phonics in an integrated way. The phonics content contained in it was very useful.