Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American culture were reflected in fashion? What role did popular culture play? This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitating British and French fashion to developing their own sense of style. It examines such influences on dress as class, jazz and hip hop, war, the space race, movies, television and sports. Further, the book shows how gender, psychology, advertising, public policy, shifting family values, the American design movement and expertise in mass production profoundly influenced an American style that has been exported across the globe. From New York City's Bohemians to Hollywood's stars, Twentieth-Century American Fashion reveals the continuing importance of clothing to American identity and individual experience.

"Schools That Work" provides critical insight into elementary schools and how they are to meet the increased demands of education for the 21st century. ""The experience of the authors can be heard on every page... [they] guide teachers and administrators in initiating change and inspire every educator to begin today to make a difference in his/her own school."" -Dr. Helen Hoffner, Holy Family University "Schools That Work"does an excellent job of covering key issues in school literacy programs. I particularly appreciate the good advice on working with paraprofessionals and volunteers, an issue that is problematic for many teachers."" -Mariam Jean Dreher, University of Maryland" "This no-quick-fix approach...underscores the importance of strong leadership and support from the segments of the school community to help insure that the literacy needs of all students are appropriately addressed."" -Juan Lira, Texas A&M International University New To the Third Edition * New coverage of reading coaches and their roles within the schools * Up-to-date review of reading reform models based on scientific evidence * Revised and increased discussion of recent federal and state initiatives throughout helps teachers address the call to develop high levels of reading and writing proficiency for ALL students About the Authors Richard L. Allington is a Professor of Education at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He is past president of the International Reading Association and the National Reading Conference, co-recipient of the Albert J. Harris Award, and a member of the Reading Hall of Fame. Dick has extensively researched effective teaching and how schools can develop effective, expertteachers. Patricia M. Cunningham is a Professor of Education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of experience, taught in various elementary grades and remedial reading, and was a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Her major professional goal is promoting literacy for all children and currently engages in staff development across the United States.

The long-standing, bestselling classic of strategies and hands-on activities for teaching phonics. In the new edition of this popular book, author and scholar Patricia Cunningham seamlessly weaves together the complex and varied strategic approaches needed to help students develop reading and writing skills. With its focus on how students use phonics to read and write, not just how much phonics a student knows, Phonics They Use includes numerous developmentally appropriate activities for helping students with fluency, rhyme-based decoding, spelling, and more. Updated throughout, this new edition devotes increased attention to morphology as the key to decoding, spelling, and building meaning for big words; includes a new set of lessons, Compound Combos, designed to help teachers introduce morphology to students; introduces a list of 50 key words, the Nifty Thrifty Fifty, which contain a common example for all the common prefixes, suffixes, and spelling changes; includes a new chapter presenting a series of lessons on how to gradually teach these 50 words and how manipulating the parts of these 50 words can help decode, spell, and unlock the meaning of over 300 other words; and presents a new chapter on phonics and spelling interventions for older struggling readers.

An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here Based on its highly successful parent text, "Phonics They Use," this new grade-level series "Making Words" offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In "Making Words First Grade, "Pat and Dottie introduce first grade teachers" "to100 lessons that teach all the phonics, spelling, and phonemic awareness skills included in most first grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential phonics curriculum. All lessons include practice with the phonemic awareness skills of segmenting and blending as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. "Making Words First Grade "is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words

• Features 100 fun and interactive lessons for building phonemic awareness, phonics, and spelling skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying phonological units and patterns within words.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate.
• Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.

Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall Making Words Second Grade: 100 Hands-On Lessons for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Spelling Based on the best-selling book, "Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing," this grade level series offers a fresh pairing of lessons and activities for kindergarten through fifth grade. In "Making Words Second Grade," Pat and Dottie introduce second grade teachers to 100 Making Words lessons that cover all of the literacy skills included in most second grade curricula. The activities progress through a systematic, sequential phonics program that includes all the complex vowel patterns second graders need to learn. In all lessons students make and sort these words into patterns. Each lesson ends with a transfer step to help them apply the sounds they learn to the spelling of new words. "I would highly recommend this book to my colleagues because it engaged all of my students and helped each of them improve their reading and writing skills. My struggling readers felt successful after saying and stretching out the words then forming them...[and m]y fluent spellers had fun with the hands on approach and loved being challenged with the secret word. I saw good spellers blossoming in front of my eyes!" --Marie Daniel, Clemmons Elementary School, Clemmons, NC
.,."the assessment piece is a strength of this text. I also like how it provides a home--school link and a description of how this activity is multi-level. This text could easily be used by new educators as well as veteran teachers." --Roxanne Monmaney, New Franklin Elementary School, Portsmouth, NH" " Patricia M. Cunningham is the author of "Beyond Retelling," "Classrooms That Work,""Schools That Work," and "Phonics They Use," all published by Allyn & Bacon, as well as a professor of education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of experience in various elementary grades and with remedial reading and has served as a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Pat promotes literacy for all children through her Four Blocks(R) workshops and staff development sessions with educators. Dorothy P. Hall is the co-developer of the Four Blocks(R) framework and the director of the Four Blocks(R) Center at Wake Forest University. A former elementary teacher and education professor, she also presents workshops around the country on Four Blocks(R), Building Blocks, guided reading strategies, and phonics instruction.

The tragic death of a young student, Melissa Franklin, was a shogk to all those who knew her; the two teachers whose job it was to supervise the excursion; her friends and fellow students who felt some responsibility for the accident and Stephen Watson who could not understand why Melissa had suddenly dumped him. Though the death was declared an accident, there was still some suspicion that it may have been a suicide. Susan, Melissa's sister is determined to find out what was going on in her sister's life and what really happened that day.

Once he had acquired a respectable nickname, Sos was sure he was destined for great things, but he did not expect them to happen in the way they did. Sitting in the classroom, during an English test, he suddenly found himself on his feet shouting, "Isn't anybody listening.' It was his voice, but he hadn't said it. And so began an exciting adventure for him and his friend Sandy as they attempt to free Will Naylor from the clutches of the strange Dr Maxwell.

Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American culture were reflected in fashion? What role did popular culture play?This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitating British and French fashion to developing their own sense of style. It examines such influences on dress as class, jazz and hip hop, war, the space race, movies, television and sports. Further, the book shows how gender, psychology, advertising, public policy, shifting family values, the American design movement and expertise in mass production profoundly influenced an American style that has been exported across the globe. From New York City's Bohemians to Hollywood's stars, Twentieth-Century American Fashion reveals the continuing importance of clothing to American identity and individual experience.