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This comprehensive full-color teacher resource book makes teaching art to young students a joy, not a hassle. Easy-to-teach, easy-to-follow lessons cover the seven elements of art: line, shape, color, value, texture, form, and space.
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Fundamentals!.......2007-09-30
This book is so simple and concise. I homeschool my (currently) 1st and 3rd grader with this book, and it is laid out so well, it makes teaching the basics of Art so easy! One of those cases where I found exactly what I was looking for and it has been a huge source of help. Great for all ages and easy to plan around, too.
great for homework pages.......2007-09-15
This book is very straight forward and has some great ideas to present the 7 elements to younger kids. The easily reproduceable worksheets which accompany each lesson are excellent for kids and parents to expound on such things as the color wheel at home.
Great book to teach art.......2007-08-29
This is a great book that teaches art to children. The lessons are easy to follow, don't take alot of preparation, and teach the fundamentals of art.
Handy resource.......2007-08-25
I purchased this book for some new ideas for art activities in the college class I teach for elementary education majors. It is nicely arranged by formal art elements with clear, concise directions. While it has worthwhile classroom activities, those concise directions can be a bit thin for most teachers that don't have any art background, unless they are the more motivated type that will do some deeper study into the art elements and principles covered in the National Visual Arts Standards. The one other problem is in the examples pictured in the book, which are obviously done by an adult, and not very imaginative uses of the lessons. Real-live kids would give far better effort than is pictured throughout the text.
Overall, this is a nice resource for the classroom teacher.
How to Teach Art to Children.......2007-08-15
This book is set up in a logical order and has some pretty good ideas. There are some helpful and interesting little blurbs noted about famous artists that I believe students will find interesting. Also, there's a helpful list of simplified definitions on the elements of art. Each section is broken down into experiences for large-group, small-group, individuals, and centers. I teach 5 different grade levels and was hoping the book would break the activities into age-appropriate categories. Nevertheless, I believe this will be a helpful book with some useful ideas.
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This comprehensive, practical resource gives educators at all levels essential information, techniques, and tools for understanding dyslexia and adapting teaching methods in all subject areas to meet the learning style, social, and emotional needs of students who have dyslexia. Special features include over 50 full-page activity sheets that can be photocopied for immediate use and interviews with students and adults who have had personal experience with dyslexia. Organized into twenty sections, information covers everything from ten principles of instruction to teaching reading, handwriting, spelling, writing, math, everyday skills, and even covers the adult with dyslexia.
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Great Book for Professionals.......2007-07-16
Thought this book was very indepth. The work pages for students and teachers seemed like great tools. This book needs to be on the shelf of every reading professional. It can help them explain and re-explain tests to parents and the student. The work pages are great for students of all differing abilities.
Very helpful.......2003-10-03
As a former special education teacher, I am sometimes too aware of little problems. I know my child's self-esteem is affected by this problem however, and this book is very helpful for being me to work with her at home, especially since teachers don't seem to think there is a problem. This book, along with "The Gift of Dyslexia" brought so much practical, usefel information. I took this book out from the library, and will buy it, to use for a longer duration at home.
Practical strategies for dyslexia.......2000-09-16
Ms. Stowe has managed to be both concise and thorough. This book is aimed primarily at teachers of students who have dyslexia, but parents will find it extremely helpful in understanding their child's (their own!) struggles with a confusing and frustrating condition. The interviews with adolescent and adult persons diagnosed with dyslexia bring the more academic aspects of the work to life, and help the reader to identify with the information in the other sections. Unlike those in some other books on the subject, the activities presented actually seem to be as they are described on the cover, "Practical." I especially liked the suggestions for teaching writing and making writing accessible to students on differing levels (word, sentence, paragraph) who might be working within the same group. I wish I'd had this book when my son was younger! I would recommend this book to principals and teachers, to parents of kids in school and parents who homeschool, and to youth and adults who grew up with any of the difficulties described.
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A helpful and quick read.......2007-03-11
We used this book for our book club. It had practical ideas and was the guide for creating a simple information booklet to help parents work with their children.
NOT for dyslexic children.......2004-04-01
I think this book was originally called "How to Teach Your Child to Read" (or, probably, "How I, Bernice Baumer the Great, Taught Your Poor Neglected Child to Read"). The "information" consists of a number of chapters that read like testimonials to her "method." The method, once revealed, has little or nothing to do with Orton-Gillingham, Wilson, or any other MSL technique. The method could in fact be very damaging to children who actually do have dyslexia. The author's attitude could be very damaging to parental confidence, since the author doesn't seem to recognise that dyslexia is any different from a "slow" reader, and posits that dyslexia can be cured in a few "simple" steps. As any parent of a dyslexic child knows, dyslexia is a lifelong disability that can be corrected and dealt with to some extent, but that will never be "cured" or go away entirely.
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Best, Most Useful Book Purchased for tutoring a Dyslexic!!.......2002-04-30
I am tutoring a 7th grader, apparently dyslexic, who has never been taught how to read or given any individual help. At the beginning I was clueless how to improve his reading skills, and was puzzled by the many mistakes he made in decoding. After receiving this book in the mail, I began to understand his problems better, and better yet - how to remedy them! He has since passed his required state reading test (3rd grade level) and is reading in most cases at a 4th grade level, a jump of 4 grades since November. Many thanks to the author, and Amazon for giving me the opportunity to buy it used from the Marketplace, which is the only way I could afford it.
The First Book on Dyslexia to be read by Parents.......1998-07-08
As a parent of a dyslexic child, I've read most of the recommended books on the subject. Of all of them, this is the first one I would recommend to parents who have realized that their child is dyslexic.
The author presents most of the classical techniques in dealing with the dyslexic learning style in an exceptionally clear, concise, and very human style. She uses as a vehicle to do this her own experience in teaching dyslexic children and young adults. After using these techniques with my own daughter, I can say that many are quite helpful.
In the course of describing the learning-to-read process with dyslexic kids, the author also brings some practical thinking to the "phonics vs. whole-word" reading debate. She explains the necessity of phonics for word-attack skills in non-intuitive readers as well as the ultimate necessity of whole-word reading in order to establish fluency and comprehension.
At the end of the book she provides most-used word-lists, phonics charts, writing charts, and pictures. She tells you how to use these materials in applying the techniques previously described.
This book is not revolutionary nor does it promise a panacea for all the issues surrounding the dyslexic learning style. But, I recommend that you make it your first of several on this complex subject.
a good beginning for parents who want to help their dyslexic.......1998-02-13
The book describes "how to" approaches to work with a dyslexic child at home. What the author suggests does not conflict with methodology that might be used in the classroom, but rather it complements any specialized, commercialized multisensory approach used at school. When parents of actual elementary dyslexic students viewed the book, they could actually understand what the author suggested doing. Various activities suggested by the author could be prepared and conducted by parents in a few minutes per day. It's a book well worth reading, by both teachers and parents of dyslexic students.
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The lessons in How to Teach Nonfiction Writing include teacher directions and reproducible forms to guide the development of the following writing forms: narrative, expository, persuasive, research reports, and using graphic components.
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Lessons, Activities and Graphic Organizers that Teach Young Children What Nonfiction Is and How to Write It
Build Informational Writing Skills!
It's never too early for students to begin writing nonfiction, as Jodi Weisbart Mahoney proves in this outstanding book. She demonstrates ways to help students understand fiction versus nonfiction, brainstorm topics, do research, and organize information using a web. From there, Jodi shows how her students use information to create their own nonfiction books. Loaded with lessons, activities, and reproducibles, this is a resource you'll turn to again and again.
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Packed with practice pages, this one-of-a-kind resource helps students read independently and confidently. Students practice nine simple strategies for using context clues to figure out the meanings of unknown words- without the help of an adult or a dictionary! Includes helpful strategy sheets for students and teachers and a reproducible strategy mini-poster.
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experience counts.......2003-11-21
During the fall of 2001 I had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Cortes by telephone about his 30 years of experience in working with the issue of diversity. This book is a reflection of Dr. Cortes' commitment to proactive approaches to the inevitable conflict that results between groups that see/perceive the world differently.
He is an uncommon voice in the all-too-common world of media. His assessment is that diversity is 'informally' taught through popular media in an uncoordinated manner to the detriment of our children is accurate.
His advocacy is hardly limited to his own ethnic background, and his insistence that there must be limits to tolerance is refreshing in current times of political correctness.
This book should be read by educators, parents and media professionals.
Very lucid and revealing..........2000-06-19
Even though as a media literacy teacher of African descent I disagree with some of the conclusions Carlos Cortes makes in his book, I appreciate that he has written it. In a very lucid writing style, especially for an academic, Cortes demonstrates how multicultural issues do indeed exist in mainstream media. He provides in one chapter his example of a media journal he kept in which he records and comments on the multicultural content found in his day-by-day (for a month in this case) encounters with mostly mainstream media. He reads stories about immigration and naturalization, Dr. Laura Schlesinger's observance of Rosh Hashannah, a Latino columnist discussing "the importance of multiethnic role models," the Promise Keepers, Louis Farrahkhan and his call for a national day of atonement, the antibilingual initiative in California, the Million Woman March, Sports Illustrated stories on racism, etc. This is a useful strategy for helping students make conscious use of the media. So often students are led to believe there's nothing there except crime and politics.
Basically, Cortes contends that diversity issues are raised in the media. That media is a source of non-school multicultural learning. But what is needed is an analysis of how young people respond to such media content. He shares some of his grand daughter's responses to movies like The Lion King and Pocahontas. Despite the valid criticism these media presentations received, he sees them as occassions for multicultural awareness. For him, the media and the public school system play similiar roles in providing multicultural education, but they each do it slightly different ways.
He also argues that students need to be taught how to examine media texts in a critical way--not in terms of bashing media, but in making a critical analysis of its presentations. This means that teachers need to bring media into the classroom and not allow it to be the main teacher of diversity issues. For in many ways, he argues, students learn more about diversity issues from the media and society than they do from the classroom.
While I think it's important that he brings this somewhat positive view of mainstream media, I think he should have provided an analysis of what ethnically focused and genered-focused media are doing. In publications like Ms.Magazine, Emerge, Hispanic, ColorLines, and the new Asian American magazines diversity issues and representations are very much present and often provide a very different analysis than mainstream media.
Lastly, I was disappointed that he didn't address the role of corporate media and mergers and how it marginalizes and makes difficult for a true diversity of voices to get heard. While yes diversity issues are addressed, they are often presented in sterotypical ways or from very limited viewpoints. While mainstream media, for example, has covered issues on immigration or bilinqual education, it is usually from a White mainstream point of view. Progressive writers, reporters, and actors in these issues don't get their own shows and columns in mainstream media to express their views.
I'm sure Cortes has read the such critics as Robert W. McChesney (__Rich Media, Poor Democracy__) who show how corporate media and its commercial driven interests help to essentially erode democracy and diversity in this country. I can't understand why he doesn't address this problem in his otherwise useful book.
I nevertheless recommend this book. It's very useful for media literacy teachers K-College. Not too many works on this subject exist and this one is sure to help lead to future research and analysis.
P.S. I also would recommend another work similiar to this one: The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America, by Robert Entman and Andrew and Rojecki.
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How to Reach and Teach All Children Through Balanced Literacy offers you a handbook for teaching literacy to diverse students in grades 3—8. The balanced literacy method combines the best practices of phonics and other skill-based language instruction with the holistic, literature-based approach in order to help you teach reading, writing, and speaking in a clear and approachable format.
This dynamic resource offers an easily accessible research-based approach to balanced literacy that is grounded in the innovative ideas developed by authors Sandra F. Rief and Julie A. Heimburge. The book includes detailed descriptions of what a balanced literacy classroom looks like and shows how to create a program from the ground up or give your existing program a boost. The book can be used across content areas and is filled with reproducible worksheets, activities, and other handy classroom tools. Some topics covered include:
· Shared book experiences
· Reading aloud
· Oral language and vocabulary development
· Guided reading for comprehension
· Modeled writing
· Reading and writing conferences
· Book clubs
· Content area reading and writing
· Ongoing assessments
· Enhancing literacy through technology
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How to Teach Phonics
Leonard C. Duncan
Manufacturer: L. C. D.
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Binding: Spiral-bound
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| Ages 4-8
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ASIN: 0941414256 |
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Teaches ALL elements of phonics. For parents and teachers.
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