alphabetic instruction communities multicultural

books:

Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction (4th Edition) (Words Their Way ...

35 reviews
Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, ...

Prentice Hall, 2007

Very useful for homeschoolers too...
My children attended a public school where this program was used. When I brought them home due to their various LDs/allergies, I balked at the $40 price tag of this book and opted for the less expensive Spectrum Spelling books for their grade level. I found those to be rather annoying because often my children already knew the words. And the ones they didn't know, they would spell correctly on ...

Words Their Way Word Sorts for Syllables and Affixes Spellers (2nd Edition) (Words Their Way Series)

2 reviews
Francine Johnston, Marcia Invernizzi, ...

Prentice Hall, 2008

A Great Tool
This book is very helpful in meeting students' individual spelling needs. It's nice to have the lists prepared for you and short instructional summaries to bring yourself up to speed on word patterns--things you don't even realize you know! The book is well-organized and offers success for all.

The Glory of Their Times : The Story of Baseball Told By the Men Who Played It
Lawrence S. Ritter

Harper Paperbacks, 1992

The voices of the game's distant past continue to reverberate with a distinct freshness in Lawrence S. Ritter's The Glory of Their Times. An oral history of the game in the first two decades of the century, Glory sends out its impressive roster of players to tell their own stories, and what stories they tell--the story of their times as well as of their game; the scorecard includes Rube Marquard, Babe Herman, Stan Coveleski, Smoky Joe Wood, ...

Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health

3 reviews
David Michaels

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

How industry shanghaied science
Conflicts of interest among members of EPA review panels have weakened governmental safety standards on toxic chemicals in the environment and in everyday consumer products. Outrage over long-standing reliance on "science for hire" by the chemical industry has prompted Congress to investigate EPA's procedures for reviewing toxic chemicals, including PBDE flame retardants and bisphenol A. These ...

Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Letter Name - Alphabetic Spellers (2nd Edition) (Words Their Way Series)

5 reviews
Francine Johnston, Donald R. Bear, ...

Prentice Hall, 2008

Letter Name Spellers
This is a great resource for first and second grade teachers. Many of the skills addressed are those encountered in your classroom daily. Great companion to Words Their Way, and to offer a hands on opportunity for phonics, spelling and decoding words.

How the States Got Their Shapes

3 reviews
Mark Stein

Collins, 2008

A fascinating insight into US history
For two generations after its founding as a state in 1848, Wisconsin politicians praised the state for "preserving the Union" through its generous contributions of land to Michigan and Illinos. Under the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 Wisconsin was much larger than the relatively small "mitten" that actually joined the Union. The entire Upper Peninsula was taken from Wisconsin Territory and ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God

2 reviews
Zora Neale Hurston, 1998

Their Eyes Were Watching God
This book is an incredible story of a mulatto woman's amazing journey through life and the journey to discover who she is. Touching and well written, this story is a great read for literary folks interested in modernism.

Words Their Way: Word Sorts for Within Word Pattern Spellers (2nd Edition) (Words Their Way Series)

1 review
Marcia Invernizzi, Francine Johnston, ...

Prentice Hall, 2008

Helpful for teaching spelling in a child-centered way
This book is helpful for offering a plan to teach spelling through word sorts. The steps are included, as are the words for each sort in an easy to copy format. I have found it useful after giving a whole class spelling assessment to teach small groups using these books. This allows me to better reach each child based on what she/he needs to be taught. I recommend this book along with others in ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God

396 reviews
Zora Neale Hurston

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006

Their Eyes Were Watching God
I liked this book. I would laugh and cry reading it, the movie is good, too. Haly Berry is in the movie and I love her movies. You cannot not go wrong getting both the book or seeing the movie.

How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Essential Edition): (Plume Essential Edition)

150 reviews
Julia Alvarez

Plume, 2005

How the Garcia Girls Lost Thier Accent
This is a wonderful Book. The Story of the Four Garcia sisters is told by going back in time from how they came to live in the United States and adapt to this new country to little girls living in Dominican Republic and growing up there, and how they came about to moving to America. Julia Alvarez is an amazing author the book is not only funny, but you can always relate to some part of it. An ...

Italian Villas and Their Gardens: The Original 1904 Edition
Edith Wharton

Rizzoli, 2008

Edith Wharton’s Italian Villas and Their Gardens, a seminal work on garden design, is a testament to the passionate connoisseurship of one of America’s greatest writers. A comprehensive look at the history and character of Italian garden architecture and ornamentation, the book explores more than seventy-five villas, capturing what Wharton calls their "garden-magic" and illuminating the intimate relationship between the house, its ...

Their Eyes Were Watching God (Cliffs Notes)
Megan E. Ash

Cliffs Notes, 2000

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Their Eyes Were Watching God, you discover the work of one of the 20th century's first African-American female authors – Zora Neale ...

Eternity in Their Hearts

37 reviews
Don Richardson

Regal Books, 2006

Jeremiah 29:13
This book proves the mandate God gave us in the Old Testament Jeremiah 29:13 King James Version "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart." The writer has done a great job describing how all cultures no matter how remote have in their history the existence of the one true God. The same cultures call for the arrival of The Redeemer and also a world wide ...

Interred with Their Bones

48 reviews
Jennifer Lee Carrell

Plume, 2008

Good mystery, good history!
It adds a great deal to the feel of a book about historical events if the author is not only a good writer, but has a wide range of knowledge in the era written about. Everyone knows something about Shakespeare, but Carrell is also a good teacher and leads the reader through an experience that allows you to experience history as it was,is, and as it might have been. Many thanks for a fine ...

The Light in Their Eyes: Creating Multicultural Learning Communities (Multicultural Education Series)

6 reviews
Sonia Nieto

Teachers College Press, 1999

AN IMPORTANT BOOK!
In this book, Sonia Nieto clearly makes known to the reader a thorough understanding of what it takes to teach in multicultural contexts. It is very rare for me to be so attached to a book that is embedded heavily in research and educational theories, without putting it down for a few days. Nieto was able to hold my attention with easy, readable language and personal narratives of other ...

They Told Me Their Stories

5 reviews
J. Edward Morris, Cindy McCowan

Dare2Dream, 2006

The Glory cloud! Amazing stories! Very insightful!
I have read a few books and stories about the Azusa Street Revival, and this is my favorite. Such wonderful, insightful stories from the mouths of numerous eyewitnesses! And such inspiring and helpful insights into the man William Seymour. Bartleman's book (Azusa Street) greatly neglects the contributions of this amazing man of God, and none of the other books or accounts go into such detail ...

Learning Their Language: Intuitive Communication with Animals and Nature

18 reviews
Marta Williams

New World Library, 2003

Excellent Learning Tool
I just finished Learning Their Language, and am getting ready to re-read it, highlighter in hand. It is that good, if your goal is to gain expertise in animal communication. I began with Carol Gurney's book, The Language of Animals, which I felt was a good starter book. It sort of primes the reader for this book. Learning Their Language was extremely well written for use as a text book/learning ...

Words Their Way Letter and Picture Sorts for Emergent Spellers (2nd Edition) (Words Their Way Series)

3 reviews
Donald R. Bear, Marcia Invernizzi, ...

Prentice Hall, 2008

A MUST for K-2 teachers.
Like the other Words their Way materials, this volume continues the wonderful tradition of combining excellent teaching ideas with the black line masters so you can use the strategies immediately. This level is especially appropriate for students learning letter/sound relationships. It gives dozens of poems and stories which have sorts to support teaching them. There are old faithfuls such as ...

Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew

172 reviews
Sherrie Eldridge

Delta, 1999

This book has done WONDERS for parents I've counseled
I am a clinical mental health therapist. I've worked with teens and adults, and have encountered quite a few "adoption issues" in counseling. For example, Reactive Attachment Disorder or adult adoptive parents who puzzle why their adult adopted children are hurt and angry. This book, which I have loaned to several parents, seems to have done wonders for their own understandings. Mothers have ...

Three Girls and Their Brother: A Novel

4 reviews
Theresa Rebeck

Shaye Areheart Books, 2008

Great fun!
This was such a fun book and so seemingly believable. If you ever indulge in any sort of celebrity watching, or wonder how pictures of the same "it girls" appear endlessly in magazine after magazine, you realize that there is a whole culture (sub-culture?) feeding our fascination with the famous and fabulous. The way the story is progressed through the points of view from youngest to oldest of ...

search for books
alphabetic, communication, communities, instruction, multicultural

Impressum / about us