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What readers will love about this book is that it offers big-picture understandings of teaching, then it zooms in and offers the details of that teaching.
- Katie Wood Ray, author of About the Authors
First graders have no shortage of ideas. The hard part for them is putting thoughts together into a cohesive draft. Organizing and planning for writing defy simple description and aren't easily modeled for students, making them challenging topics to convey to young children. Where do you find the language and tactics to teach these subtle processes?
With First Grade Writers, Stephanie Parsons will change how you think about teaching the thinking behind writing. Parsons outlines five specific units of study for your writing workshop that help students prepare thoughtfully to write. Beginning with a September unit specially designed to introduce the writing workshop to first graders and build a classroom community that supports risk taking and learning, each successive unit builds upon the previous one and fosters independence. By June your students will know how to plan for writing out loud and on paper, leading to elegant, well-structured pieces. The units also help children to differentiate the planning and organization needed to write:
- fiction
- personal narrative
- nonfiction Q & A books
- pattern books.
Best of all, First Grade Writers is corner-of-the-desk practical with concise, logically laid-out descriptions of how each unit of study operates, a variety of helpful tables, charts, and assessment diagnostics, as well as elaborations, teaching points for minilessons and conferences, troubleshooting tips, and month-by-month planning assistance.
If you're new to first grade, Stephanie Parsons will give you ideas for top-notch teaching that will be invaluable as you establish your first writing workshop. If you're a veteran, the units in First Grade Writers will augment your existing workshop and help your students clearly conceptualize what high-quality writing looks like. Either way, you'll help them write better by thinking about the thinking behind good writing.
Customer Reviews:
Excellent resource for First Grade teachers.......2007-05-13
This is a helpful guide for First Grade teachers who want to incorporate the writing process into their classroom. The information is clear and well-organized and follows the flow of the school year.
An essential companion for teachers of First Grade Writers.......2007-01-05
Stephanie Parsons' book speaks directly to teachers. It explains the thinking behind a writing workshop - what we need to understand in order to set our own goals for our students and to plan and organise successful units of study. I love the way she has provided a consistent framework for the development of each unit of study; this so helps my own planning and then develops each part of the framework giving examples of possible teaching points. I have recommended this book to every First Grade teacher I know.
Right on Target.......2005-09-17
I love this book! I have been teaching first grade for eight years, and this book really addresses first grade writers as they truely are. It has some wonderful, concrete ideas for improving their writing. I especially like the suggestions of Read Aloud titles to teach specific writing points.
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This practical series is designed to help early childhood teachers, P.E. specialists, special educators, and therapists develop and improve motor skills abilities in all children who have coordination and movement difficulties, ages 5 and up. Each book in the series contains hundreds of developmentally age-appropriate activities to build young children's competence and confidence in specific skills in a positive, enjoyable learning environment. The primary focus is to provide quality teaching, assessment, and remediation to meet the specific needs of each individual child.
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great book.......2000-10-09
great reference book for teachers. very appropriate activities for young children in the classroom setting. kids love the fun and exciting activities.
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- Excelente apoyo para el diseño de cursos
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PREPARING MATERIALS FOR OPEN, DISTANCE & FLEXIBLE LEARNING (Open and Distance Learning)
Derek Rowntree
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This practical handbook guides teachers in open and distance learning through the key phases of planning and developing materials for coursework. Each phase involves a specific sequence of development tasks, supported by background information, examples and checklists.
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Excelente apoyo para el diseño de cursos.......2000-08-12
Aunque este libro esta enfocado hacia el diseño de materiales de educación a distancia, su lectura brinda consejos aplicables para el diseño de la capacitación en general, a traves de el encontrarás muchos tips y guias para considerar en la elaboracion de materiales e incluso para la implantacion de programas.
Es muy completo porque incluye todos los aspectos relevantes desde el planteamiento de objetivos, la eleccion de medios, su desarrollo y preparación hasta el proceso de evaluación del aprendizaje. Cubre: que es importante considerar hasta que evitar y como mejorarlo, proporciona ejemplos y buenas ideas para trabajar en el diseño. es tambien un material de consulta y trabajo interesante tanto para el principiante en el tema como para el avanzado
Su propia estructura es un buen ejemplo del diseño de materiales
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The Action Selling Sales Training and Selling Skills Book Series includes:
- Action Selling: How to sell like a professional, even if you think you are one.
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The Action Selling Book Series will dramatically improve the sales behavior of your sales force.
Action Selling: Are your salespeople "Winging It" during calls? With Action Selling, they`ll learn the Five Critical Sales Skills that really matter and how to follow a proven process that has helped over 300,000 become top selling producers.
Selling Your Price: Do your salespeople rely on old habits, manipulative tricks or price concessions to close the sale? With Selling Your Price, salespeople learn how to sell value and protect margins while winning more business.
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Masters of Loyalty: Do your salespeople sell loyalty? With Masters, they`ll learn how to create real loyalty; loyalty that makes customers stop shopping and be forever deaf to competitor`s appeals.
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- A must read book for all educators
- A Vital Field Guide for Teachers
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Creating a Winning Game Plan: The Secondary Teacher's Playbook
Michael D. Gose
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This book contains a wealth of strategies for new and experienced teachers. Specific
examples and advice are provided for negotiating the school culture, planning
lessons, teaching strategies, multicultural classrooms, and classroom management
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A must read book for all educators.......1999-11-04
Gose's book reaches the new and veteran teachers. He reminds us what teaching is all about- the students- and teaches us the best possible way to teach them. I love how he has a plan for every student! As a beginning teacher, I forget that I am teaching 30 or more different personalities. Dr. Gose gives teachers many workable ideas on how to teach each and every one of them. I constantly find myself referring to his book for new lessons or reminders on how to be a good teacher. My ABC book and his playbook sits on my desk in my classroom. It's my teacher's bible. Dr. Gose has written a "playbook" that works well for teachers. It can help you become a successful teacher and remind you why you became a teacher.
A Vital Field Guide for Teachers.......1999-09-07
As a young teacher ready to begin my first year of teaching in just one day, I find myself pouring over my early edition of Gose's book and refreshing myself on all the practicalities of teaching that no one ever teaches you. This book attempts the impossible and succeeds - giving everyday, practical advice for classroom teachers. I know that on days when I might not be as well prepared, I can use an A, B, or C activity straight out of that book. Already, I have found the advice on the "Emergency Card" to be irreplaceable. Gose's book refocuses teachers back to the roots of teaching, gamesmanship, and gives us practical tools to get there. No teacher should be without this book. It is the most valuable resource I have as a teacher.
So It Goes! The "Thomas Guide" for Every Teacher!.......1999-08-03
Teaching is not easy... Having just finished my first year as a middle-school teacher, I've recognized that teaching presents more challenges than one can imagine. And.... I've read too many books on too many teaching theories which all proved too impractical in the classroom. But... Gose's "Creating a Winning Game Plan" is like the bugle to the bugle-blower in the running Calvary. It offers the practical tone to practical answers. It hollars out the best tips to success at handling all classroom scenarios. And... You'll find more than enough inspiration to teach to your fullest, with vigor, humor and intelligence, after you read Gose's "Pep Talk" on pg. 17. Thanks and Good Luck to All Teachers in '99...And Have a Good Read! "Stand and Deliver. Be resourceful. Be a player. Speak softly and carry a big stick. Win one for the Gipper. Climb every mountain, forge every stream. Dare to be different. When the going gets tough the tough gets going. Do something important with your life-Teach!" -Gose
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This book has practical lesson and activity plans for pre-service and in-service teachers. Its practical materials integrate all the theories students have already learned through their other coursework and pulls it together in a way that is useful in the classroom setting. This book equips the student with materials, organization, and plans to walk into a classroom prepared.
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Great.......2001-03-09
As the disabilities host on BellaOnline, this book is a must for beginning teachers to learn how to formulate excellent lesson plans and activities.
This book is an absolute must for new teachers.......1999-05-15
I heartily recommend this book! As a school administrator, I can attest to the fact that it has made a world of difference for both new and experienced teachers alike in my school. Its approach to bridging the gap between theory and real-world examples is extremely useful in helping any teacher design more effective lesson plans.
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Individual Education Plans (IEPs): Speech and Language (Individual Education Plans (Series).)
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A regular feature in the Web zine Word is a column called "Work," conceived as an updated homage to Studs Terkel's 1972 book, Working. A selection of these Word columns, augmented with some new material, has been collected under another monosyllabic title, Gig. The slightly more effusive subtitle describes precisely what the book offers: Americans Talk About Their Jobs at the Turn of the Millennium. Word conducted interviews with and accepted submissions from a wide range of people with an equally wide range of jobs. The editors have organized the entries into rough thematic groups such as Plants and Animals (lawn maintenance man, buffalo rancher, dog trainer), Bodies and Souls (palm reader, orthopedic surgeon, telephone psychic), and Artists and Entertainers (video game designer, Elvis Presley "interpreter," art mover).
This is a casual book of over 120 brief first-person narratives. It is not a survey or an anthropological study, but a window onto how other people spend their days and nights. A few of the people are famous (supermodel Heidi Klum, painter Julian Schnabel), but most are not, and the latter are in some ways more interesting, not least because we already hear so much about the former in the welter of entertainment coverage that already graces our TVs and newsstands. The joy of Gig lies in its conversational tone and intimate peeks into occupations that many would never even know existed (who knew you could be a "clutter consultant"?). So, if you've ever wanted to ask the human resources director of a slaughterhouse how her day was, Gig is for you. --J.R.
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For the last several years, the editors of Word, the pioneering Web magazine, have been sending interviewers -- nearly forty in all -- across America to talk to people about their jobs. They wanted to document reality, not to advance any overarching thesis or political agenda. Their sole position on work was that it's a fascinating topic and an elemental part of nearly everyone's life. They were certainly not disappointed with what they found; this wide-ranging survey of the American economy at the turn of the millennium is stunning, surprising, and always entertaining. It gives us an unflinching view of the fabric of this country from the point of view of the people who keep it all moving.
Recalling Studs Terkel's 1972 classic best-seller, Working, the more than 120 roughly textured monologues that make up
Gig beautifully capture the voices of our fast-paced and diverse economy. The selections demonstrate how much our world has changed -- and stayed the same -- in the last three decades. If you think things have speeded up, become more complicated and more technological, you're right.
But people's attitudes about their jobs, their hopes and goals and disappointments, endure.
Gig's soul isn't sociological -- it's emotional. The wholehearted diligence that people bring to their work is deeply, inexplicably moving. People speak in these pages of the constant and complex stresses nearly all of them confront on the job, but, nearly universally, they throw themselves without reservation into coping with them. Instead of resisting work, we seem to adapt to it. Some of us love our jobs, some of us don't, but almost all of us are not quite sure what we would do without one.
With all the hallmarks of another classic on this subject,
Gig is a fabulous read, filled with indelible voices from coast to coast. After hearing them, you'll never again feel quite the same about how we work.
Customer Reviews:
Not on par with "Working".......2006-03-26
As other reviewers before me have noted, "Gig" is a fun book, but it's not an in-depth study of people's relationship to the jobs they do as was Studs Terkel's excellent "Working."
In "Gig," the interviews are a little shallow, and even the prostitute seems to like her job; had the word.com actually used oral history techniques, they would have interviewed the subjects over several sessions to get to the "meat" behind their stories. Of course everyone wants to be happy with their jobs. No one is going to confess from the get-go that his or her life is problematic.
Some of the interviews mirror our celebrity-saturated, status- conscious world of today. Heidi Klum and Debra Messing gush over their work, but their one-in-a-million careers do not necessarily mean anything to us "regular" folk. However, having the art mover interview appear right after the interview with the famous artist did provide a nice contrast.
"Gig" makes for a great and easy read. If you really want to understand the whole concept of work, however, I recommend "Working" and "American Dreams" by Studs Terkel.
You think you hate your job?.......2002-08-25
Then you should read this book. Gig is an unexpectedly engaging collection of vignettes of diverse American workers. It makes you think long and hard about your job...as well as all those jobs that someone has to do, but that no one really wants to. (What does the garbage man really think about when he's riding the back of the truck?) My favorite profile: man who runs a company that cleans up murder scenes and homes where people are simply found dead from natural causes.
awesome, awesome read.......2001-11-23
I only read one entry a night to drag it out. It's that good. Not only is there much hilarity, you actually learn insider info about how things work--excellent cocktail conversation. I must have told 20 people things I've read in here, and I"m only a third finished.
I've actually confirmed some of the comments with people who really have those jobs--and they're true!
Escapism that gives U Ideas!.......2001-09-30
This is by far the best book i've read in 2 years. The stories are perfectly edited, so they are either concisely funny or heart-wrenching or appalling (mostly funny). YOu never know what you're going to get when you start one of the 3-page nuggets.
Not only was this fabulous escapism during the recent Horrors, it gave me truly useful ideas of how to better use MY life in a way that is rewarding and of use to the planet!! And how to appreciate the value, the contributions, and/or the sheer hilarity of my many jobs, past and present.
Itýs Not Just an Adventure. Itýs a Job........2001-05-25
There are three fundamental questions about work.
* What do other people do?
* Who actually does that?
* Is their job better than mine?
As it happens, all three questions have the same answer: you'd be surprised. After collecting years of a column on "Work", the editors of Word.com can tell you exactly what Americans do all day, and those jobs are both more bizarre and more mundane than you might imagine. As _Gig_ demonstrates, Americans are working as florists, lemonade salesmen, clutter consultants, smokehouse pit cooks, paparazzi, Elvis Presley interpreters, buffalo ranchers, heavy metal roadies - and in most cases, loving it.
_Gig_ is fascinating for its variety alone. But more importantly, _Gig_ is inspiring. It's hard to read this book and not be impressed: impressed by Americans' creativity, by their insight, even by their dedication. A receptionist echoes the voices of the 120-plus interviewees when she says that "I take pride in my job. I really - it's my baby, you know? That front desk is my baby. I just take a lot of pride in what I do."
There's no one way to read _Gig_. You can turn to the oddities. (Yes, crime scene cleaner is a real job.) You can look for the parallels and contrasts. (Temp, preceded by CEO, preceded by slaughterhouse human resources director.) You can flip around for anecdotes. (The systems administrator's tale is riveting.) Or you can take heart in homespun philosophy. A steelworker says that "you work with people you like, and they like you because you do your work, and you're with them. You're together." A lawn maintenance man articulates his dream to "finish up school. And then maybe I'll try to get one of those jobs where you can wear khaki pants and relax."
At times the editors try too hard to keep the interviews raw; the constant punctuation of "[Laughs]" can wear thin. But overall _Gig_ is extraordinary: part entertainment, part oral history, part homage to the work of Studs Terkel. _Gig_'s editors pay explicit tribute to Terkel's 1972 _Working_, yet the collection will remind you too of _Hard Times_, his brilliant collection of interviews on the Great Depression. If _Gig_ is a documentary, then it's a documentary in which the central participant shapes the structure and uncovers the meaning. Not unlike a job.
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- For We Are Sold, I and My People: Women and Industry in Mexico's Frontier (Suny Series in the Anthropology of Work)
- Fundamentals of Financial Management, Concise Edition (with Thomson ONE - Business School Edition)
- General Motors Chevrolet Venture, Oldsmobile Silhouette, Pontiac Trans Sport & Montana 1997 thru 2005 (Haynes Repair Manual)
- Hidden Order: The Economics of Everyday Life
- History: Fiction or Science? (Chronology, No. 1)
- Inside Home Depot
- Integration-Ready Architecture and Design: Software Engineering with XML, Java, .NET, Wireless, Speech, and Knowledge Technologies
- John Deere Industrials
- Jump Start Your Business Brain: Win More, Lose Less, and Make More Money
- Labor Day Murder (Christine Bennett Mysteries)
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