Personalbibliographien sterreichischer Dichterinnen Und Dichter
by Karl F Stock, Rudolf Heilinger, and Marylene Stock
Comprehensive, innovative, and practical, this text offers educators a powerful approach to teaching writing. Rather than have students perform repetitive exercises, it focuses on engaging students in grappling with words and experiences to make meaning. Such topics as the paradigm shift from product to process; an overview of the writing process; teaching prewriting and how to shape writing; examining genres; collaborative learning; classroom management strategies; grammar within the writing pr...
Popular Series Fiction for Middle School and Teen Readers
by Rebecca L. Thomas and Catherine Barr
Young readers enjoy the delightfully consistent cast of characters and reliable story lines of series fiction. Because of their popularity and appeal, books in series are great vehicles for fostering literacy among all types of readers, including ABE and ESL students. In addition, readers of series fiction are almost always adamant about reading every title in the series-in series order. Yet traditional information sources on YA literature include very little about series fiction. It is rarely r...
This book presents tales of mythical beasts, offering primary sources (e.g., the writings of Herodotus, original fairy tales, poems) within the context of background material and commentary. Discussion questions and activities complete each chapter. Focusing on the phoenix, the griffin, the unicorn, and the dragon, this book combines tales and lore of each, presenting primary sources (e.g., the writings of Herodotus and original fairy tales and poems) within the context of background material...
This indispensable source pulls together hundreds of practical, easy recipes and formulas for classroom, library, and home projects. From paints and salt map mixtures to volcanic action formulas, these kid-tested projects make learning authentic and enjoyable. You've got to have it! This indispensable source pulls together hundreds of practical, easy recipes and formulas for classroom projects. From paints and salt map mixtures to volcanic action formulas, these kid-tested projects make learn...
This book helps educators and librarians prepare students to succeed in University Interscholastic League (UIL) Chess Puzzle. Children and Chess: A Guide for Educators is the first book to show the connection between accepted educational theories and chess. It features lesson plans teachers can use immediately, and from which they can learn the basics of the game. Since the plans meet academic goals through chess, teachers also learn that chess can be a part of reading, math, science, and socia...
Selected for their accuracy, authenticity, and appeal, these books span the curriculum in subject matter and will help librarians advise readers making the transition from fiction to nonfiction. McElmeel provides thorough guidelines for choosing and using information books to promote literacy and learning through inquiry. Complete bibliographic information, grade and age levels, and series information are given for each title with suggestions for related resources (both fiction and nonfiction) a...
These in-depth, classroom-tested projects connect information literacy and technology skills with the elementary curriculum while promoting cooperation among teachers and librarians. Students explore such varied topics as architecture, islands, government, money, and advertising through diverse technologies-CD-ROMs, the Internet, e-mail, and videotape production. Each chapter includes an overview of the topic; objectives; detailed instructions; activities for reading, writing, and brainstorming;...
Apply these hands-on activities and fascinating demonstrations to enable students to see and understand how the science of chemistry is involved in the creation of art. Investigate such topics as color integrated with electromagnetic radiation, paints integrated with classes of matter, art forgeries integrated with qualitative analysis, and more. Integrate chemistry and art with hands-on activities and fascinating demonstrations that enable students to see and understand how the science of ch...
Introduce your students to other countries and cultures through the traditional folk and fairy tales in these engaging readers theatre scripts. Representing more than 30 countries and regions, the 40 reproducible scripts are accompanied by presentation suggestions and recommendations for props and delivery. Each has been assessed for readability using the Flesch-Kincaid Readability Scale and is grouped for grades one through five. Valuable as supplements to multicultural units, these scripts act...
For reluctant Internet users, the technologically challenged, and educators with limited time and computer expertise, this book is a must. Kyker offers dozens of simple reproducible activities based on educationally oriented World Wide Web sites. Designed to reinforce curriculum content, these activities emphasize the informational and educational values of the World Wide Web and give students entry-level Internet experience, encouraging them to spend time on each Web page. For all projects ther...
Here's an exciting, alternative approach to teaching first-year television production to high school students. A combination of class instruction and independent video action projects prepares students for a year-end video competition. The projects are based on the concept of thematic mapping and borrow knowledge from other academic subject areas to teach media and visual literacy, broadcast history, video production skills, and multimedia animation. Kenny's exciting, alternative approach to...
Text Editing, Print and the Digital World (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)
Traditional critical editing, defined by the paper and print limitations of the book, is now considered by many to be inadequate for the expression and interpretation of complex works of literature. At the same time, digital developments are permitting us to extend the range of text objects we can reproduce and investigate critically - not just books, but newspapers, draft manuscripts and inscriptions on stone. Some exponents of the benefits of new information technologies argue that in future a...
Readers Theatre for American History (Readers Theatre)
by Anthony D Fredericks
This participatory approach actively engages students in their own American history education. Arranged chronologically, these 24 readers theatre scripts put students in roles of selected historical figures, giving them a you are there perspective on the unfolding of critical milestones, memorable circumstances, and colorful venues that have shaped the American experience. Students can travel with a determined family along the Oregon Trail or to the moon with Neil Armstrong. Other opportunities...
Ready for fun with preschoolers? Ready for over 65 activities that explore educational concepts, reinforce social skills, and engage children in interactive play? Ready for more ready-to-go programs for kids? Gail Benton and Trisha Waichulaitis - authors of the popular Ready-To-Go-Storytimes - are back with more of their fun, popular, and-most important - easy programs. This user-friendly manual and multimedia CD-ROM - graphics, stories, songs, sound effects, and more - gives you everything you...
The Internet for Teachers and School Library Media Specialists (Neal-Schuman Net Guide)
by Edward J. Valauskas and Monica Ertel
A collection of actual, successful examples of Internet programs used on a daily basis in elementary, middle and high schools from across the United States. They provide ideas for teaching mathematics, science, history, literature, music and more. This volume features examples such as: a French class in which students are exploring French periodicals on the Net and then downloading them to practice language skills; an earth science class in which students look at daily weather data from a Gopher...
Where, how, by whom and for what were the first museums of contemporary art created? These are the key questions addressed by J. Pedro Lorente in this new book. In it he explores the concept and history of museums of contemporary art, and the shifting ways in which they have been imagined and presented. Following an introduction that sets out the historiography and considering questions of terminology, the first part of the book then examines the paradigm of the Musee des Artistes Vivants in Pa...
Designed specifically with revision in mind, the "CIM Revision Cards" provide concise, yet fundamental information to assist students in passing the CIM exams as easily as possible. A clear, carefully structured layout aids the learning process and ensures the key points are covered in a succinct and accessible manner. The compact, spiral bound format enables the cards to be carried around easily, the content therefore always being on hand, making them invaluable resources no matter where you ar...
This pioneering volume of essays explores the destruction of great libraries since ancient times and examines the intellectual, political and cultural consequences of the loss of books. Fourteen original studies, introduced by a re-evaluative history of lost libraries, offer the first ever comparative discussion of the greatest catastrophes in book history from Mesopotamia and Alexandria to the dispersal of monastic and monarchical book collections, the Nazi destruction of Jewish libraries, and...
Defining Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities is becoming an increasingly popular focus of academic endeavour. There are now hundreds of Digital Humanities centres worldwide and the subject is taught at both postgraduate and undergraduate level. Yet the term `Digital Humanities' is much debated. This reader brings together, for the first time, in one core volume the essential readings that have emerged in Digital Humanities. We provide a historical overview of how the term `Humanities Computing' developed into the term `D...
SSCS 2015
"Provides a grounding in the philosophical, historical, and legal development of the concept of intellectual freedom by providing current thinking on a range of intellectual freedom concepts, cases, and controversies"--
Histoire Comique Des Etats Et Empires de la Lune Et Du Soleil, (Ed.1858) (Generalites)
by Savinien Cyrano De Bergerac