Using 12 step-by-step strategies, teachers can help students build a rich vocabulary, gain a deep understanding of concepts, and develop organized thinking processes.

Using 12 step-by-step strategies, teachers can help students build a rich vocabulary, gain a deep understanding of concepts, and develop organized thinking processes.

Offering a fun, engaging approach to grammar instruction, this guide includes clear explanations of grammatical terms and practical activities for all students, including English language learners.

Offering a fun, engaging approach to grammar instruction, this guide includes clear explanations of grammatical terms and practical activities for all students, including English language learners.

This book is testimony to the infinite possibilities of how powerful the new genres of 21st century literacy and technology can merge three authors across America to create this model of continuous professional development for DEFINING EXCELLENCE: Culturally Responsive Teaching for 21st Century Learners.

The fairy tales speak about the child's inner pressures in a way the child unconsciously understands...and offers examples of both temporary and permanent solutions to pressing difficulties. They are] not only a form of literature, but are works of art which are fully comprehensible to the child as no other form of art is. . . . This version of Fairy Tales is written by the author as an ABC story where the first sentence begins with the letter A, and ends with the sentence beginning with the letter Z. The effect of this retelling is not only an innovation but develops for the reader the...

Fables in "ABC" Format The literary device used in this book for retelling the fables in "ABC" order requires the writer to open each sentence or the major sentences with a different word and involves the "mental" ability to think both sequentially and creatively. This exciting device brings about a new retelling version, keeping to the original story, yet giving the story a new voice and details. The ABC retellings also serve as a writing model for the students by providing them with an expansive sentence-starting vocabulary modeled by these fables.

Every educator knows that students who have an extensive vocabulary are the school winners. These high vocabulary students pass the "tests" with flying colors. They read well and are likely to write well or certainly are more fluent than those students who have limited vocabularies. One of the issues, however, is how to raise the vocabulary levels of those students who never seem to move beyond the "basics" even when they are given vocabulary lessons. One problem, among several, is the sheer boredom of "going home to study ten vocabulary words and know them for the next test." This assignment...