 Teacher: The One Who Made the Difference, by Mark Edmundson
Edmundson, professor of English at the University of Virginia, has written a brightly illuminated memoir about his teacher, the remarkable Frank Lears, who specialized in unsettling the settled high-school student during the larger cultural disorders of the late sixties.
|  Leveled Books for Readers, Grades 3-6: A Companion Volume to Guiding Readers and Writers, by Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas
More than 6,000 leveled titles for grades 2-6 are featured, including both fiction and nonfiction-as well as popular series books and short story collections-and genres as diverse as realistic fiction, historical fiction, fantasy, traditional literature, biography, and information books on a variety of content topics. Books are organized by title, by level of difficulty, and by genre to assist teachers not only in providing a range of quality texts in guided reading, but also in making recommendations for independent reading.
|  Creative Resources for the Early Childhood Classroom, by Judy Herr, Yvonne R. Larson, Yvonne Libby-Larson
This text focuses on the growth of the whole child and includes hundreds of activities that make education interesting and challenging for young children. You'll get 67 themes with goals, concepts, vocabulary words, music, finger plays, experiences in mathematics, art, and cooking, resources and much more. An introduction helps teachers use the book more effectively, including discussion of how to use the thematic approach, suggestions for writing parent letters, and criteria for selecting children's books.
|  Reflecting Children's Lives: A Handbook for Planning Child-Centered Curriculum, by Debbie Curtis, Margie Carter (Contributor), Deb Curtis
Learn how to make theme plans, establish times for observation and play, set up schedules, materials, space, and more. Each chapter contains an insightful and touching story by teachers as well as charts, assessment tools, resource lists, and practice sheets. Youll discover activities for both you and the children, and at the same time, chart your own thinking as you consider new possibilities for your curriculum planning.
|  The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home, by Jessie Wise, Susan Wise Bauer
This book will instruct you, step by step, on how to give your child an academically rigorous, comprehensive education from preschool through high school; one that will train him or her to read, to think, to understand, to be well-rounded and curious about learning. Through a language-intensive process that organizes learning around the maturing capacity of the child's mind, your child will receive the complete education that today's overcrowded schools are often unable to provide.
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