Synopses & Reviews
Scholastic First Discovery: Whales, with its fresh cover design, kid-friendly paperback format, and larger trim size, offers young readers an easy-to-use, easy-to-understand introduction to whales and other marine animals. Full-color, highlighted illustrations are accompanied by brief, simple text full of fun facts. Four transparent acetate pages in this title add a fun visual kick.
Critical acclaim for the original First Discovery series includes:
"Each of the titles in this outstanding series is dramatic enough to enthrall even nonreading youngsters." -- Parenting magazine
"Visually delightful...the simple narration is informative and impressive." -- School Library Journal
First Discovery is one of the great phenomena of children's publishing -- often copied and never equaled -- with over 42 million copies sold worldwide.
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Burke offers classroom teachers concise, effective solutions to the most common instructional challenges they face. These solutions are based on a combination of research and the author's own experience as a public school teacher who gets up every morning and works with his own students.
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The Teacher's Essential Guide to Classroom Management offers classroom teachers concise, effective solutions to the most common instructional challenges they face. These solutions are based on a combination of research and Jim's own experience as a public school teacher who gets up every morning and works with his own students. Classroom management is about not only creating an effective classroom environment but reducing teachers' stress, increasing productivity - for both teachers and students -- and ensuring a safe, equitable environment committed to the proposition that all kids can learn and succeed For use with Grades 612.