Immigration is a hot topic in the news right now - but what are the facts? Who are the humans behind the headlines? Why do people migrate? Why do countries need immigration? And why is everyone talking about it? Find out in this topical title. These informative and interesting titles answer the big questions about the world of today. Children can understand topical issues from a factual and practical view, examining the world around us from a range of perspectives. Prepare your young readers for tomorrow with Topics Today.

This exciting series gives beginner readers their first experiences of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be part of a community and discover the cultural and spiritual diversity that life has to offer.|This exciting series gives beginner readers their first experiences of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be part of a community and discover the cultural and spiritual diversity that life has to offer.

This exciting series gives beginner readers their first experiences of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be part of a community and discover the cultural and spiritual diversity that life has to offer.|This exciting series gives beginner readers their first experiences of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be part of a community and discover the cultural and spiritual diversity that life has to offer.

This exciting series gives readers their first taste of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be part of a society and discover the cultural and spiritual diversity that life has to offer.|This exciting series gives readers their first taste of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be part of a society and discover the cultural and spiritual diversity that life has to offer.

Im Rahmen der Debatte um Kompetenzen seit den PISA-Testungen 2000 und den sich anschliessenden Bildungsreformen will diese Arbeit den Entwicklungen im Bereich der schulischen Vermittlung und UEberprufung von Kenntnissen und Fahigkeiten am Beispiel literarischen Lernens nachgehen. Die Auseinandersetzung gilt zunachst der Frage nach einem tragfahigen Bildungsbegriff oeffentlicher Schulen im Spannungsfeld von Bildungstheorie, empirischer Bildungsforschung und bildungspolitischer Steuerung. In einem weiteren Schritt werden Chancen und Grenzen der empirischen wie fachdidaktischen Modellierung literarischer Rezeptionskompetenz beleuchtet. Vor diesem Hintergrund gibt die Untersuchung von Prufaufgaben fur den Mittleren Schulabschluss im Fach Deutsch Auskunft uber die bildungsadministrative Auslegung von Kompetenz im Umgang mit literarischen Texten. Im Anschluss werden Lernaufgaben aus Deutschlehrwerken fur die 10. Klasse auf ihre Konzeptualisierungen literarischer Kompetenz hin analysiert. Dabei lasst sich eine deutliche Ruckwirkung der Einfuhrung von Bildungsstandards und einer neuen Test- und Prufaufgabenkultur auf die Didaktisierung literarischen Lernens nachzeichnen.

Diese Biografie ist der erste Versuch, Leben und Wirken des fast vergessenen fuhrenden Junghegelianers Theodor Echtermeyer zu rekonstruieren. Obgleich infolge seines fruhen Todes viele entscheidende Quellen nicht uberliefert sind, gelingt es dem Autor, ein schlussiges Bild von Echtermeyers Persoenlichkeit zu entwerfen, seine Rolle als Initiator und Mitherausgeber der Hallischen Jahrbucher zu zeigen und seine bedeutende konzeptionelle Leistung anzudeuten. Ein Anhang von Texten, darunter drei Erstveroeffentlichungen, unterstutzt dieses Anliegen.

The Pathways series assists students in achieving the National Certificate (Vocational) qualification. Pathways not only equips students with the required knowledge, understanding and practical skills, but also empowers them to apply this learning with confidence in the classroom and ultimately in the workplace. Each Pathways Student Book is clearly structured and easy to use. Each topic covers every Subject Outcome, Learning Outcome and Assessment Standard. Accessible, easy-to-understand language makes learning easy. Concepts are clearly defined. A glossary at the beginning of each topic clearly explains important words and terminology. Informative artwork supports the text. This Student Book is accompanied by a Lecturer’s Guide.

These informative and factual titles take a look at some common health conditions affecting children. From causes and symptoms to treatments and long-term management strategies we examine in depth a range of health issues and the effects they have on children's lives. These titles are designed to assist in explaining and understanding a diagnosis. By providing clear facts statistics and advice these titles thoroughly explore various medical conditions and mental health diagnoses.|These informative and factual titles take a look at some common health conditions affecting children. From causes and symptoms to treatments and long-term management strategies we examine in depth a range of health issues and the effects they have on children's lives. These titles are designed to assist in explaining and understanding a diagnosis. By providing clear facts statistics and advice these titles thoroughly explore various medical conditions and mental health diagnoses.

Somewhere some time ago the Agents of F.E.E.L.S were formed. Working together to Feel Every Emotion Like Superheroes our helpful heroes are here to assist YOU the unsuspecting reader understand the emotions that are trying to mess up YOUR day

These informative and factual titles take a look at some common health conditions affecting children. From causes and symptoms to treatments and long-term management strategies we examine in depth a range of health issues and the effects they have on children's lives. These titles are designed to assist in explaining and understanding a diagnosis. By providing clear facts statistics and advice these titles thoroughly explore various medical conditions and mental health diagnoses.|These informative and factual titles take a look at some common health conditions affecting children. From causes and symptoms to treatments and long-term management strategies we examine in depth a range of health issues and the effects they have on children's lives. These titles are designed to assist in explaining and understanding a diagnosis. By providing clear facts statistics and advice these titles thoroughly explore various medical conditions and mental health diagnoses.

Differentiating Instruction With Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Social Studies for grades 3-5 offers teachers everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. This book provides five different types of menus that students can use to select exciting products that they will develop so teachers can assess what has been learned-instead of using a traditional worksheet format. Topics addressed include ancient history, American history, government, U.S. documents, people in history, and geography. Differentiating Instruction With Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Social Studies provides numerous types of leveled menus that lower and on-level elementary-aged students can use to demonstrate learning through a method of their choice. Menus with similar formats but geared towards varying ability levels allow teachers to differentiate easily. Using the creative and challenging choices found in Three Shape menus, Tic-Tac-Toe menus, List menus, 2-5-8 menus, and Game Show menus, students will look forward to sharing their newfound knowledge throughout the year. Also included are specific guidelines for products, rubrics for assessing student products, and teacher introduction pages for each menu.This is a must-have for any teacher wanting to differentiate for a wide range of learners! Grades 3-5

For the first time in the history of the Little House books, this new edition features Garth Williams' interior art in vibrant, full color, as well as a beautifully redesigned cover.

The adventures of Laura Ingalls and her family continue as they leave their little house on the prairie and travel in their covered wagon to Minnesota. Here they settle in a little house made of sod beside the banks of beautiful Plum Creek. Soon Pa builds a wonderful new little house with real glass windows and a hinged door. Laura and her sister Mary go to school, help with the chores, and fish in the creek. At night everyone listens to the merry music of Pa's fiddle. Misfortunes come in the form of a grasshopper plague and a terrible blizzard, but the pioneer family works hard together to overcome these troubles.

And so continues Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved story of a pioneer girl and her family. The nine Little House books have been cherished by generations of readers as both a unique glimpse into America's frontier past and a heartwarming, unforgettable story.

When Jackie Robinson retires from baseball and moves his family to Connecticut, the beautiful lake on their property is the center of everyone's fun. The neighborhood children join the Robinson kids for swimming and boating. But oddly, Jackie never goes near the water.

In a dramatic episode that first winter, the children beg to go ice skating on the lake. Jackie says they can go--but only after he tests the ice to make sure it's safe. The children prod and push to get Jackie outside, until hesitantly, he finally goes. Like a blind man with a stick, (contd.)

Jackie taps on the ice's surface, when suddenly howling and roaring sounds come out of the lake! It is only then that Sharon realizes why she's never seen her father in the water -- Jackie doesn't know how to swim! But her horror changes to relief as Jackie bravely taps his way to the middle of the lake -- and declare it safe!

In a stunning metaphor for Jackie Robinson's legendary breaking of the color barrier in Major League Baseball, Sharon Robinson honors her extraordinary father's memory with her warm graceful storytelling. Two-time Caldecott Honor Book artist Kadir Nelson has created richly rendered paintings that radiate with the beauty and spirit of one of America's finest heroes.

This series shines an informative and encouraging light on the difficult realities faced in today's world and illuminates healthy ways for children to process and understand them. Children interact all the time with adults around them.A

The Instamaths series was developed to provide learners with exercises that promote and consolidate their problem-solving skills.

This new edition of the series has been completely rewritten to conform to the requirements of the Revised National Curriculum Statement. It covers all the learning outcomes and assessment standards for Mathematics, ensuring that the level is appropriate and that adequate progression occurs. The material is also suitable for those classes or learners that can achieve more than the minimum requirements of the Revised Curriculum.

This friendly Learner's Book is both a resource for teachers who want their learners to have a clear and confident understanding of Mathematics, and a fun and easy way for learners to brush up or revise their Mathematics through self-study. The authors guide learners in a learning area that often proves to be a stumbling block instead of an inspiration!

The Instamaths series covers Grades 3-9 and is also available in Afrikaans as Kitsreken.

Government size has attracted much scholarly attention. Political economists have considered large public expenditures a product of leftist rule and an expression of a stronger representation of labour interest. Although the size of the government has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in post-war politics, the formation of the government's funding base is also important. Junko Kato finds that the differentiation of tax revenue structure is path dependent upon the shift to regressive taxation. Since the 1980s, the institutionalisation of effective revenue raising by regressive taxes during periods of high growth has ensured resistance to welfare state backlash during budget deficits and consolidated the diversification of state funding capacity among industrial democracies. This book challenges the conventional wisdom that progressive taxation goes hand-in-hand with large public expenditures in mature welfare states and qualifies the partisan centred explanation that dominates the welfare state literature.

Die Entwicklung der elektronischen Medien hat in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten den universitaren Alltag grundlegend verandert. Das gilt wohl in besonderem Masse fur die Forschung; unberuhrt von diesen Entwicklungen ist aber auch die Lehre nicht geblieben. Ein besonders wirksames Zauberwort dieser jungeren Entwicklung lautet eLearning. Damit verbinden sich Hoffnungen ganz unterschiedlicher Art, von einem hoeheren Mass an Anschauung uber motivationale Effekte bis hin zu mehr Eigenstandigkeit in der Aneignung von Wissen auf der Seite der Lernenden. Nach der anfanglichen Euphorie haben sich aber zunehmend auch kritische Stimmen zu Wort gemeldet. Welche Rolle die Neuen Medien fur die Erzeugung und Vermittlung mediavistischen Wissens spielen koennen, danach fragt dieser Band.

They Fought for Freedom tells the life stories of southern African leaders who struggled for freedom and justice. In spite of the important roles they played in the history of southern Africa, most of these leaders have been largely ignored by the history books. The series tells their stories in an entertaining manner, in clear language and aims to restore them to their rightful place in history.

“Brilliant, hysterical, truthful, and real, these essays illuminate the path for our future female leaders.”—Reese Witherspoon

A diverse group of celebrities, activists, and artists open up about what feminism means to them, with the goal of helping readers come to their own personal understanding of the word.

“As a feminist who loves pink, I give this brilliant book of essays an enthusiastic ‘YES.’”—Mindy Kaling

Feminists Don’t Wear Pink and Other Lies is a collection of writing from extraordinary women, from Hollywood actresses to teenage activists, each telling the story of her personal relationship with feminism. Often funny, sometimes surprising, and always inspiring, this book aims to bridge the gap between the feminist hashtag and the scholarly text by giving women the space to explain how they actually feel about feminism.