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Product Description: Their names bespeak a rich past. From the Norse Hjaltland comes the modern Shetland: islands nominally Scottish, steeped in Nordic culture, closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Important Neolithic sites are at Skara Brae and Maes Howe in the Orkneys...read more

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A leading Gallup pollster charges Jeb Bush and Fox TV with colluding to win George W. Bush the presidency in 2000, arguing that the network's premature announcement about Bush's victory turned the tide in his favor when Al Gore was still in a position to win. Original.

Product Description: This book presents an evidence-based framework for understanding the literacy needs of adolescents. The premise is that educators and other critical stakeholders need to understand evidence-based principles in order to develop effective curriculum to meet the needs of diverse learners...read more

Product Description: This practical, engaging book introduces prospective and practicing teachers to K-12 content reading instruction.   The Fifth Edition of this popular book includes an expanded, up-to-date focus on standards-based teaching and learning...read more

Product Description: Teaching Adolescents Who Struggle with Reading presents practical classroom strategies for teaching middle and high school students who struggle as readers and writers. Respected authors David Moore and Kathleen Hinchman provide sound advice on how to address the fundamentals of teaching adolescents...read more

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Presents classroom practices for teaching middle and high school students who struggle as readers and writers, providing advice on how to address the fundamentals of teaching adolescents. (view table of contents)

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How do you prepare students for the unfamiliar concepts, new terms, and unusual writing styles they will encounter during their study of subjects such as biology, history, or vocational arts? This book, an update to the bestselling second edition, offers you practical solutions to maximize adolescent students' learning in the content classroom. You'll find activities on asking and answering questions before reading, forecasting passages, understanding vocabulary, graphically representing information, and writing before reading. The book also provides updated research findings about prereading activities, and contains a new chapter that addresses the nuances of selecting, combining, and using prereading activities across lessons and units. The wealth of strategies and expanded reference list offered in this book will help you make printed materials in all content areas understandable and interesting to your students.

Product Description: Using an imaginary school-Merritt Elementary School-the authors follow a class of children from kindergarten through fifth grade to show how different teachers use a variety of approaches to make literacy a reality for all students...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Based on the latest research and best thinking from literacy and language studies, curriculum and instructional practices, and educational psychology, Reading and Writing in Elementary Classrooms, 4/e, maintains its balanced approach to literacy instruction and its authors' commitment to helping all students learn to read...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: On the eve of the 1992 presidential election, The Superpollsters: How They Measure and Manipulate Public Opinion in America takes a look at the people who tell us what we think. A public opinion pollster for twenty years, author David W...read more

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