Best Selling Books by Deborah Davis

Oxford Handwriting First for Victoria is a complete handwriting program designed to develop the building blocks of handwriting with correct posture and grip models and opportunities to model and practice accurate letter formation and joining techniques.Student Books 3 - 6:Patterns to introduce letter groups and develop fluency skills.Track, trace and copy opportunities.Starting dots and direction arrows.Automated information of high-frequency Oxford Wordlist words.Self-assessment pages and ''track your progress'' spreads.Links to Oxford Literacy for a connected curriculum.

For teachers looking for a modern and refreshing approach to the teaching of handwriting, Modern Cursive Today offers many new and innovative features. Each of these are integrated with a sound and practical series of exercises guaranteed to ensure that every student enjoys success in this most important of subjects. The books contain fun and interesting activities that will keep even the upper primary students hooked into handwriting.

Oxford Handwriting First for Victoria is a complete handwriting program designed to develop the building blocks of handwriting with correct posture and grip models and opportunities to model and practice accurate letter formation and joining techniques.Student Books 3 - 6:Patterns to introduce letter groups and develop fluency skills.Track, trace and copy opportunities.Starting dots and direction arrows.Automated information of high-frequency Oxford Wordlist words.Self-assessment pages and ''track your progress'' spreads.Links to Oxford Literacy for a connected curriculum.

Forced to cope with a growing population of students under-prepared for college writing, a large community college in northern Texas engaged in a transformative redesign of its developmental writing sequence, streamlining two courses, various student support services, and technology applications to boost student success, retention, and performance. This paper presents issues addressed by the redesign and research findings conveying its success. (Contains 1 table.).

THE ART OF CANINE CUISINE is a full-color cookbook for foodies with dogs that contains unique recipes covering six international cuisines-Italian, French, Chinese, American, Mexican, and Irish. All the recipes have been vet approved as safe for healthy dogs and, with a few spice adjustments, can be shared with their human "parents." Each cuisine section presents original painted portraits of canine guides, with each breed representing it''s country of origin and history. The book is filled with stunning photography of food and dogs. This is not just a beautiful cookbook, but also a journal of the stories of rescued dogs from heartbreaking conditions to new lives.

"PM Handwriting is a carefully sequenced program of handwriting instruction for Foundation to Year 6. It is designed to support students in developing a fluent, legible and automatic handwriting style."--Back cover.

Despite evidence that enhanced teacher education provides enhanced learning opportunities, there is little research on the impact for remedial college students. This study addresses this issue. Reviewing students assigned to remedial reading based on placement test scores, a series of t-tests compared students after one term based on COMPASS scores and compared between the courses provided with teachers of bachelor’s or master’s degrees grouped by gender. This study used a non-experimental, causal-comparative quantitative ex post facto design to study the difference between the education level of the teaching staff and the student achievement at completing the prescribed remediation course within one term. Three t-tests conducted determined that there was a difference, but could not state that the difference was related to the gender of the student. This study used recently archived data at a mid-sized mid-western four-year university compiling a sample size of 115. Due to the Bonferroni Correction, the results were marginal. The null was rejected within the entirety of the sample (N=115) with a finding of t(113.00)=-6.31, p=0.01. However, for the sample of males (n=59), the null could not be rejected with a finding of t(57.00)=4.33,p=0.02 due to the application of the Bonferroni correction. As to the sample of females (n=56), the null could not be rejected with a finding of t(50.00)=4.46, p=0.02 due to the application of the Bonferroni correction. Colleges and universities can use this study to aid in assigning professorial staff to remedial courses for the best possible outcomes. This study should be replicated with other variables and in varying size colleges in the future.

PM Handwriting for Victoria is a carefully sequenced handwriting program for Foundation to 6, designed to enable students to master a fluent, legible and automatic handwriting style. The series provides instruction for correct letter formation and joining techniques in the Victorian Modern Cursive style. The workbooks feature high-frequency words, favourite characters, themes and topics from the PM readers, and purposeful digital extension activities accessed via QR codes.

"This School Improvement Toolkit is a hands-one, practical guide for developing a School Improvement Plan. The chapters correspond to seven essential steps the school improvement process that were originally developed from the effective schools research of Lezotte (1992), the Onward to Excellence model (NWREL), and countless others who have built on these early efforts" (page 1).