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Product Description: LEVEL: Grades PreK–1 A Feast of Rhyme, Rhythm, and Song presents an interactive and engaging approach to teaching phonemic awareness – an essential foundation for later reading success. Using sound, music, and rhythm activities, young children develop the ability to hear “inside” a word – to hear specific sounds, identify the sequence of sounds in words, and understand the role sounds, or phonemes, play in word recognition...read more

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9781553792260 | Pap/cdr edition (Portage & Main Pr, February 2, 2010), cover price $32.00 | About this edition: LEVEL: Grades PreK–1 A Feast of Rhyme, Rhythm, and Song presents an interactive and engaging approach to teaching phonemic awareness – an essential foundation for later reading success.

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Product Description: Activities for a comprehensive approach to literacy

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9781890871529 | Holcomb Hathaway Pubs, June 1, 2003, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Activities for a comprehensive approach to literacy

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Product Description: This book reflects the same balanced and comprehensive approach as Striking a Balance and applies it to teaching literacy in the intermediate grades. It shows readers how to integrate direct instruction in word study, vocabulary, comprehension strategies, and writing skills with rich and varied reading and writing experiences...read more

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9781890871468 | Holcomb Hathaway Pubs, January 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: This book reflects the same balanced and comprehensive approach as Striking a Balance and applies it to teaching literacy in the intermediate grades.

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Product Description: In past years, whole language philosophy and direct instruction in basic literacy skills have often been presented as mutually exclusive approaches to instruction. In reality, many of the best teachers have responded to the individual needs of their students and have "struck a balance," combining the best practices from both approaches in their classrooms...read more

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9781890871437 | Holcomb Hathaway Pubs, January 1, 2003, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: In past years, whole language philosophy and direct instruction in basic literacy skills have often been presented as mutually exclusive approaches to instruction.

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Product Description: 70 activities for literacy instruction that have been found to be highly effective in today's diverse classrooms.

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9781890871314 | Holcomb Hathaway Pubs, June 1, 2000, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: 70 activities for literacy instruction that have been found to be highly effective in today's diverse classrooms.

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Product Description: Striking a Balance: Positive Practices for Early Literacy is written to help prepare pre-service and practicing teachers to meet the challenge of today's diverse student population and create a comprehensive program that places direct skills instruction within the context of rich and varied reading and writing experiences...read more

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9781890871215 | Holcomb Hathaway Pubs, January 1, 1999, cover price $20.01 | About this edition: Striking a Balance: Positive Practices for Early Literacy is written to help prepare pre-service and practicing teachers to meet the challenge of today's diverse student population and create a comprehensive program that places direct skills instruction within the context of rich and varied reading and writing experiences.

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Lists and describes children's literature that portrays family life

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9781563083136 | Teacher Ideas Pr, February 15, 1998, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: Lists and describes children's literature that portrays family life

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Product Description: Poetry writing, says Nancy Lee Cecil, helps students build self-esteem and express themselves in their own way. In For the Love of Language, the author showed how literacy scaffolds can release the poet in every child. Now, in For the Love of Poetry, the author features 35 new literacy scaffolds...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781895411874 | Portage & Main Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Poetry writing, says Nancy Lee Cecil, helps students build self-esteem and express themselves in their own way.

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Suggests alternative responses to potentially violent situations, ways to resolve conflicts, family activities, and techniques for dealing with television violence

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9781880913161 | Innisfree Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Suggests alternative responses to potentially violent situations, ways to resolve conflicts, family activities, and techniques for dealing with television violence

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Product Description: Presents some 200 selections from children's literature with characters who respect the environment. Books are grouped in five genres (contemporary fiction, folk literature, historical fiction, biographies, and fanciful fiction) and entries contain full bibliographic data, a descriptive annotation...read more

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9780786402212 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, May 1, 1996, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Presents some 200 selections from children's literature with characters who respect the environment.

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Product Description: Asking questions is one of the most essential functions of teaching. In this book, the authors Nancy Lee Cecil and Jeanne Pfeifer show teachers how to develop both their own questioning skills and those of their students. The authors explain how to model provocative, open-ended questions, and provides many useful teacher- and student-directed questioning strategies...read more

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9781553792543 | 2 edition (Portage & Main Pr, March 7, 2011), cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Asking questions is one of the most essential functions of teaching.
9781895411744 | Portage & Main Pr, February 1, 1995, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Asking questions is one of the most essential functions of teaching.

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Product Description: Freedom Fighters, 2/E is about teaching the language arts, but it is much more than that. The book is an urgent appeal for teachers to arm their students with the power to communicate freely and unself-consciously by offering to them the joy that comes from knowing how to express themselves...read more

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9781879215221 | 2 sub edition (Sheffield Pub Co, May 1, 1994), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Freedom Fighters, 2/E is about teaching the language arts, but it is much more than that.
9780881334432 | Sheffield Pub Co, June 1, 1989, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Freedom Fighters, 2/E is about teaching the language arts, but it is much more than that.

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Product Description: All children are natural poets—even those who are academically at-risk. In For the Love of Language, the author illustrates how literacy scaffolds can release the poet within every child. Explore colour, nonsense, and shape poems; modelled poetry, free verse, alliteration, limericks; haiku, argument, alphabet poems; and many more...read more

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9781895411614 | Portage & Main Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: All children are natural poets—even those who are academically at-risk.

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Product Description: Children develop their feelings toward other cultures and individuals largely through the ideas presented to them by parents and teachers. One good way is to show them respectable and accurately portrayed literary characters from many U...read more

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9780899508795 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, June 1, 1993, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Children develop their feelings toward other cultures and individuals largely through the ideas presented to them by parents and teachers.

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Product Description: Teaching to the Heart, 2/E describes a whole language program that has as its ultimate goal the creation of students who read competently, critically and joyfully, far beyond the classroom door. To this end teachers are exhorted to move beyond the skills-based approach and to embrace a philosophy that begins with the heart - rather than the head - of the learner...read more

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9781879215139 | 2 sub edition (Sheffield Pub Co, September 1, 1992), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Teaching to the Heart, 2/E describes a whole language program that has as its ultimate goal the creation of students who read competently, critically and joyfully, far beyond the classroom door.

Product Description: Research on at-risk children indicates that some "make it" in spite of their home life, exhibiting what researchers have termed "resiliency." This book details about 200 selections from children's literature featuring characters who demonstrate positive coping behaviors...read more

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9780899507071 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, April 1, 1992, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: Research on at-risk children indicates that some "make it" in spite of their home life, exhibiting what researchers have termed "resiliency.

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9780840356123 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, June 1, 1989, cover price $21.95

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