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Scholastic Success With 4TH Grade Workbo by Scholastic Publisher Comments These endearing characters will delight children with their bold illustrations and sweet storylines. The interactive lift-the-flaps, textures to touch, sliding surprises, and pop-ups will entertain children as they learn about being friends.Little Monkey... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Nonviolent Communication 2ND Edition by Marshall Rosenberg Publisher Comments Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $12.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Scholastic Success with: 2nd Grade (Bind-Up) by Scholastic Synopsis 416 bright, colorful pages that give kids practice in the skills every 2nd grader needs to be successful. Includes addition and subtraction, problem solving, number concepts, reading comprehension, handwriting, writing, grammar, maps, and lots more. For... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56 by Rafe Esquith Staff Pick Few teachers get the recognition that Rafe Esquith has received during his extraordinary career, but in this case, it is so richly deserved. In a recent poll, over 60 percent of Americans said our country is headed in the "wrong direction." As I read... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Designing Groupwork by Elizabeth G Cohen Publisher Comments Since publication of the first edition of this best-selling book, cooperative learning has become a widely accepted strategy. Now properly designed groupwork has become a powerful tool for teaching all students and it's time to bring teachers up-to-date... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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"Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?": And Other Conversations about Race by Beverly Tatum Publisher Comments Walk into any racially mixed high school and you will see black youth seated together in the cafeteria. Of course, it's not just the black kids sitting together-the white, Latino, Asian Pacific, and, in some regions, American Indian youth are clustered... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Absorbent Mind by Maria Montessori Publisher Comments In response to the crisis in American education, more than five thousand public and private schools across the nation have adopted the timeless Montessori Method of teaching, of which this book is the cornerstone. Written by the women whose name is... (read more) List Price $18.99 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Ahead of the Curve: The Power of Assessment to Transform Teaching & Learning by Douglas Reeves Synopsis Ahead of the Curve provides a comprehensive view of the challenges of assessmentfrom a classroom, system, and leadership standpointand examines the many perspectives of effective assessment design and implementation. The distinguished contributors to... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Freire Publisher Comments First published in Portuguese in 1968, Pedagogy of the Oppressed was translated and published in English in 1970. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire has helped to empower countless impoverished and illiterate people throughout the world. Freire's... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Writing Workshop: The Essential Guide From the Authors of Craft Lessons by Ralph J Fletcher Publisher Comments Is the writing workshop the only way to teach writing? No. There are a variety of approaches or programs, but none of them matches the writing workshop when it comes to growing strong writers. That's why, despite the pressures of testing, the writing... (read more) List Price $26.25 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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How to Teach Art to Children: Grades 1-6 by Joy Evans Publisher Comments This book has it all background information, literature resources, and concise step-by-step directions for 96 art projects that will help your students learn about the elements of art and then use the elements in the styles of famous artists. In... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading with Meaning: Teaching Comprehension in the Primary Grades by Debbie Miller Publisher Comments If you have ever wondered how to teach comprehension strategies to primary-age children, read on. First, imagine a primary-grade classroom where all the children are engaged and motivated; where the buzz of excited, emerging readers fills the air... (read more) List Price $30.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Miscue Analysis Made Easy: Building on Student Strengths by Sandra Wilde Publisher Comments Miscue analysis has long been the instrument of choice for knowledgeable researchers working to understand the quality of student errors in reading. Now Sandra has put this remarkable tool into the hands of all classroom teachers. This little jewel of a... (read more) List Price $27.75 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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What Your Sixth Grader Needs to Know: Fundamentals of a Good Sixth-Grade Education by E D Hirsch Publisher Comments Grade by grade, these groundbreaking and successful books provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of a good education for first to sixth graders. B & W photographs, linecuts, and maps throughout; two-color printing.... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Death and Life of Great American School System (10 Edition) by Diane Ravitch Publisher Comments A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of the Great American School System is a radical change of heart from one of America’s best-known education experts. Diane Ravitch—former assistant secretary of... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Comprehensive Curriculum of Basic Skills by Vincent Douglas Publisher Comments Offering an entire grade 2 curriculum, this best-selling Comprehensive Curriculum workbook features educational activities and instruction. Containing 544 pages organized by subject area with lessons in reading, writing, spelling, math, citizenship, and... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind by Jessie Wise Publisher Comments First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind uses picture study and other classical techniques to develop the child's language study in those first two all-important years of school. Each lesson leads the parent, step-by-step, through the simple oral... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W Loewen Publisher Comments Americans have lost touch with their history, and in Lies My Teacher Told Me Professor James Loewen shows why. After surveying eighteen leading high school American history texts, he has concluded that not one does a decent job of making history... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home by Susan Bauer Book News Annotation Former-teacher Wise and her daughter Bauer (literature, College of William and Mary) draw, among other resources, their own experience of the former home-schooling the latter. Not a classical education in the sense of Greek and Latin, but an... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $15.95 Used - Hardcover
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Positive Discipline by Jane Nelsen Publisher Comments For twenty-five years, Positive Discipline has been the gold standard reference for grown-ups working with children. Now Jane Nelsen, distinguished psychologist, educator, and mother of seven, has written a revised and expanded edition. The key to... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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