New Releases by David Booth

A grade 2 reader in the style of a magazine for struggling or reluctant readers.

"This revised handbook will be even more useful to elementary teachers who want to explore the best techniques for teaching reading and writing. Totally re-written, the second edition of this popular guide offers one hundred procedures and activities based on the latest research. A collection of proven strategies, teachers will find old favorites as well as new approaches they will want to try - from using reading comprehension strategies and the writing process to working with information texts and technology." "Literacy Techniques for Building Successful Readers and Writers includes checklists and guidelines, many in reproducible form, for easy classroom use. This flexible and adaptable resource for the busy teacher is also useful for supply teachers and other teaching partners - buddies, volunteers, and parents."--Jacket.

This innovative resource includes tools for classroom management that range from assessment techniques to tips for choosing and displaying poems.

This comprehensive resource is a must-have for teachers who want to fill their classrooms with poetry. With descriptions of poetic genres, lessons and teaching tools, sample poems, and ideas for sharing and exploration, this book will inspire, inform, and entertain. Select from a wide range of response activities that will involve children in reading, writing, role playing, and the arts. Assessment techniques for supporting the poetry program complement this highly readable volume. Stimulate creativity and imagination and learn to create a "culture of poetry" that demonstrates the power of words and strengthens the language lives of children.

Whitehots May 14/04.

An exploration of the latest and most successful approaches to teaching reading and writing to students in grades four to eight--students in these middle school years are already reading and writing but they need help in continuing to develop their literacy strategies and in constructing meaning with a variety of resources. It begins with the basic information that teachers need for understanding the reading and writing processes, and offers techniques for making literacy events meaningful to these growing students. Suggestions are made for how to make connections to print texts and the students'' world, how to expand and monitor comprehension, and how to design instructional frameworks for supporting developing readers and writers, and effective ways to make nonfiction more meaningful for them. Rubrics, assessment checklists, and a bibliography complement this accessible resource.

"This comprehensive resource deals with all aspects of story, including what kinds of stories to choose, how to present them, ways to integrate stories in the classroom, evaluation and more" Cf. Our choice, 2001.

"Case studies, mini-lessons, outlines, checklists, book lists and computer programs to help reading success in the classroom" Cf. Our choice, 1999-2000.

Discusses how contextual methods (which are defined as methods which attempt to understand poverty within the social, cultural and economic environment) and non-contextual methods can be used in the construction of poverty profiles and the assessment of poverty. Includes case studies which discuss selected poverty issues in Tanzania and Zambia.

Contains activities to help students interpret and evaluate the print, audio, and video products of the mass media and to design and produce their own media productions in order to develop a variety of skills including critical thinking, decision making, composition, teamwork, and time management. Media literacy activities focus on advertising, popular culture, and journalism within the mass media.

A young boy listens to his grandfather''s story of farm life during the Dust Bowl years.

This book uses a structure that can be best described as half textbook, half novel. Presenting language arts information in a straightforward, yet engaging manner, it reflects realistically the state of today''s classrooms.

Alberta Authorized Resource for Grade 2 1994-1999.

A picture book for children

Annotated list of superior children''s books in preschool, primary, middle years, and young adolescent age groups.

200 fascinating games to thrill, surprise, and amaze kids of all ages. Includes old favourites and new, imaginative games that will help students compete, cooperate, communicate, and have fun.