Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments. "Exploring the Future" features fiction by George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, and William Golding; nonfiction by Philip Zimbardo, Stephen Pinker, Abraham Lincoln, Jared Diamond, Dan Ariely, and Ray Kurzweil; images from several films, an old television commercial; and classical and contemporary music. "Understanding the Power of One" features fiction by Victor Hugo and Lori Halse Anderson; nonfiction by Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, and Edith Hamilton; a young adult book on archaeology, an animated film from Walt Disney, and an episode from Saturday Night Live. An extensive list of free resources and correlations to the Common Core allow teachers to "teach on the cheap." Teaching Difficult Texts brims with "relevant and robust" lessons for a new generation.

Teaching Challenging Texts shows how to increase reading comprehension and enhance student engagement, even with the most challenging texts. Every chapter features ready-to-use, research-based lessons, replete with explicit instructions, handouts, Common Core correlations, and assessments. "Exploring the Future" features fiction by George Orwell, Suzanne Collins, and William Golding; nonfiction by Philip Zimbardo, Stephen Pinker, Abraham Lincoln, Jared Diamond, Dan Ariely, and Ray Kurzweil; images from several films, an old television commercial; and classical and contemporary music. "Understanding the Power of One" features fiction by Victor Hugo and Lori Halse Anderson; nonfiction by Phillis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, and Edith Hamilton; a young adult book on archaeology, an animated film from Walt Disney, and an episode from Saturday Night Live. An extensive list of free resources and correlations to the Common Core allow teachers to "teach on the cheap." Teaching Difficult Texts brims with "relevant and robust" lessons for a new generation.

In Dealing with Feelings Jane Fisher draws on her experience as a teacher in a 'difficult' urban area. She begins by summarising Daniel Goleman's work on 'emotional intelligence' and goes on to describe how stories can be used to open up reflectionon and discussion of feelings. The main part of the book summarises over 100 popular children's story books (many of which are likely to already be in your setting) and shows how each can be usd to encourage children to think anf talk about theirfeelings. The included CD ROM contains additional resources, games and templates.

Many schools and settings have puppets but are unsure how to use them and this book is packed with ideas and inspiration! Puppets can provide the auditory and kinesthetic learning experiences which inspire exciting and imaginative learning. Puppets can help children with communication skills, number work and the ability to empathise. Written by a pair of experts in using puppets in early years and primary education, this book will appeal to all sorts of practitioners and teachers in all sorts of settings!

Title: Letters from the Kingdom of Kerry in the year 1845.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The HISTORY OF BRITAIN & IRELAND collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. As well as historical works, this collection includes geographies, travelogues, and titles covering periods of competition and cooperation among the people of Great Britain and Ireland. Works also explore the countries' relations with France, Germany, the Low Countries, Denmark, and Scandinavia. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Fisher, Lydia Jane; 1847. xi, 3]-98 p.; 21 cm. (8 ) 10390.c.20.(2.)

ON YOUR OWN is a book for the millions of Americans who work alone, either full-time or part-time, in offices inside and outside the home. And for those who yearn for the real American Dream: Being your own boss. This indispensable survival guide deals with the pleasures and perils, the paybacks and pressures of working alone. It shows you how to stay focused, motivated, and organized. How to keep psychologically centered and emotionally afloat between "paychecks." How to be productive, motivated, and happy working for yourself-by yourself. You'll also discover: How to set boundaries both physically and emotionally between your work space and home. How to survive the "downstairs commute" and combat the isolation and loneliness that can and will come from working alone. How to set up your ideal at-home office. Proven and innovative techniques for getting a fast start in the morning, outfoxing inertia, outracing mental and emotional roadblocks, tuning your psychic engine, extinguishing procrastination, building self-discipline, developing survival skills, overcoming self-doubt. Strategies for talking yourself into success, using self-actualization techniques to build self-confidence, befriend solitude, achieve peak performances, and tap your inner wellspring. How to handle the toughest job in the world-being your own taskmaster: Disciplined, determined, independent, motivated, self-sufficient, fulfilled. This practical, instructional, inspirational guide also gives you tests for assessing your ability to be on your own. Advice on staying constructive, fending off distractions. Tips on coping with loneliness. Case examples of men and women who have succeeded on their own and wouldn't have it any other way. And much, much more.

Laura-Jane Fisher provides one hundred ideas on how to survive the first year of teaching. This book deals with a wide range of issues from coping with the long working hours and managing difficult classes to lesson planning and writing reports for the first time.