The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. Within this social history and ethnography, the voices of eldersNonce wards of the home in the 1930s and 1940sNtell us in sometimes poetic, often comic, usually ironic, and always poignant words what it was really like to grow up in an Oorphanage.O Emerging from this penetrating adventure are principles for the future of effective group care in meeting the needs of the rapidly growing number of abused, forsaken, and...
The Home on Gorham Street looks back to an earlier era of care for orphaned and dependent children of Eastern European Jewish immigrants. ...
In the 1940s, while her sons served in the war, my grandmother, Yetta, sat on the benches in the Bronx, New York, almost every day. Everywhere in the world, people sit together and share ideas, hopes, joy and sorrow. This book presents some events-as I remember them-as if in the minds and out of the mouths of people I knew.
In the 1940s, while her sons served in the war, my grandmother, Yetta, sat on the benches in the Bronx, New York, almost every day. Everywhere in the ...
At the turn of the 1900s they came to America, and began again. Some made fortunes, but most did not. Born here, their children and grandchildren have little understanding of what life offered those brave souls to arrive, build, and grow old in this country. Jakob, a prominent merchant, and Charlie, a poor house painter, sat on the benches in the Bronx, New York in the 1940s with my grandmother Yetta. When the Board of Directors of the department store chain he had built retired him, Jakob fled to his Southern California beach house, and soon wrote a letter inviting Charlie. Their lives were...
At the turn of the 1900s they came to America, and began again. Some made fortunes, but most did not. Born here, their children and grandchildren have...
Ideal for SLPs and reading specialists, this convenient kit contains everything you need to implement the Story Friends(TM) early language and literacy intervention with one child.
Fun, engaging, and effective, Story Friends is a language intervention program for 4- to 6-year-old children at risk for reading difficulties. Through 26 interactive animal-themed storybooks and lively, engaging audio recordings, Story Friends effectively improves oral language and vocabulary development--two of the most important...
Watch a recorded webinar on Story Friends
Ideal for SLPs and reading specialists, this convenient kit contains everything you need to imple...
Ideal for use in a wide variety of early childhood education settings, this convenient kit contains the materials you need to implement the Story Friends(TM) early language and literacy intervention with a small group.
Fun, engaging, and effective, Story Friends is a language intervention program for 4- to 6-year-old children at risk for reading difficulties. Through 26 interactive animal-themed storybooks and lively, engaging audio recordings, Story Friends effectively improves oral language and vocabulary...
Watch a recorded webinar on Story Friends
Ideal for use in a wide variety of early childhood education settings, this convenient kit contai...
Part of the Story Friends(TM) language and literacy intervention program for 4- to 6-year-old children, this storybook set contains 26 full-color illustrated books for use in small-group intervention with children at risk for reading difficulty. Organized around two themes--Jungle Friends and Forest Friends--these durable books are filled with colorful illustrations, likeable characters, rhyming text, and lift flaps that encourage interaction as young children participate in Story Friends.
Fun, engaging, and effective, Story Friends is a language intervention...
Part of the Story Friends(TM) language and literacy intervention program for 4- to 6-year-old children, this storybook set contains 26 full-...
This book is your user-friendly guide to implementing Story Friends(TM), a fun and engaging language intervention program for 4- to 6-year-old children at risk for later reading difficulty. You'll get
An accessible, concise overview of the program and its many benefits
A look at the research behind Story Friends
Complete guidance on setting up your listening center: an area in your classroom where children listen to stories and instruction based on those stories
An easy three-step model for...
Watch a recorded webinar on Story Friends
This book is your user-friendly guide to implementing Story Friends(TM), a fun and engagin...
When young children struggle with phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge, how can you intervene early and prevent later reading difficulties? Get kids on the PAth to Literacy with this highly effective Tier 2 intervention. Developed for children ages 4 to 6 who need help with key early literacy skills, this supplemental curriculum builds phonological awareness and alphabet skills through fun activities that keep children engaged as they learn. Young children will learn how to:
blend and segment words
identify first parts of...
When young children struggle with phonological awareness and alphabet knowledge, how can you intervene early and prevent later readi...
