Schools and Instruction Books

Well done and easy to use. Very informative, concerning both the research side and actual practice in the classroom.

Highly recommended.

This book gives detailed instructions for not only teaching reading and writing effectively, but how to reach EVERY child. Kathryn Au has provided us all with a step-by-step method for creating a readers' and writers' workshop in every classroom. This method will work with all children including ESL and SPED. Literacy Instruction for Today is an essential book for every classroom, including inclusive classrooms. Your children will not want to stop writing. Teachers who have tried this method claim that they can't get their students to stop writing. Not only are there step-by-step instructions for teachers to go by, there are also samples of students' work and teacher logs. Summer is a great time to buy this book. Teachers will then have time to plan their own readers' and writers' workshops for their classrooms in the Fall. Good news:this method is applicable for grades K-12 and beyond.

This book is an excellent resource for aspiring teachers. Wood provides very valuable insight into the world of technology and the ways in which teachers can creatively and thoughtfully integrate it into the Language Arts curriculum framework. The suggestions are clever, fun, and engaging for writing students with various skill levels, and teachers with all experience levels.

This is the book for all teachers who love literature and desire to utilize internet resources with their children, but don't have the time to research hundreds of sites on their own. Karen A. Moran has done a thorough job of finding appropriate sites that relate to 38 different children's books. To name a few, the book includes Charlotte's Web, Night of the Twisters, Hatchet, Cricket in Times Square, Indian in the cupboard, Ribsey, Summer of my German Soldier, and The Watson's go to Burmingham - 1963. For each title, the author lists an average of five different web sites that contain a curriculum connection to the book. The activity suggestions range in grade level ability and are both fresh and creative! Included also are other suggested resources, and professional materials.

A must have for any elementary teacher working with books and computers!

A Living Legacy is a great book for music history lovers. The Juilliard School of music has some wonderful instruments that have great historical backgrounds. This book has wonderful color pictures and the background information that makes these instruments unique. It also includes the Letters and Certificates of Authenticity for each instrument. What a wonderful book!

As a Pastor of Children's Ministries, I frequently give away or recommend books from this series. The series provides parents with information and a strategy for presenting the material to their children. Use the recommendations as a suggestion - your child may need to hear the content sooner, depending on the exposure he/she has had from peers or others.

LUMINIST HORIZONS: THE ART AND COLLECTION OF JAMES A. SUYDAM offers a catalog and history of the works of an American landscapist known for his luminist paintings. Even though his name has been long linked with the movement, his works have, surprisingly, not received extensive scholarly attention until now: LUMINIST HORIZONS not only packs in 200 reproductions, but contrasts his works with contemporaries and surveys American landscape painting of the times. A top pick.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

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an excellent book for the blues/jazz guitarist looking for an escape route from the standard root 6 & 5-type voicings, in this case to a very melodic, frequently dissonent, type of voicing largely built on 2nds. the mind boggles at the voice leading potential in the chords presented. also addresses rhythmic attack within the twelve bar format. requires dexterity. doesn't discuss scales beyond harmonizing them for the purpose of this melodic approach. looks fun to play over though.

highly recommended, as is the minor blues vol.I.

Vermette provides you with real, practical applications for cooperative learning. He demonstrates workable and purposeful ways for teachers to use cooperative learning that works and promotes student learning. Many teachers have students work in groups, but the "learning" part for is not always certain. If you are trying to make cooperative learning an effective tool in your classroom, this book is be essential. Pre-service teachers, veteran teachers and even school administrators will find this book useful.