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Comprehension and Vocabulary Strategies for the Elementary Grades w/ CD ROM
Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski, Roberta L. Berglund
Each of the 44+ research-based strategies in this book is presented step-by-step with the description, teaching goals, procedures, and student reproducibles. A quick reference guide helps educators find the specific are they wish to target, and then notes when, why, and how to use that strategy in t...
Moments in Film
Author(s): Ron Newcomer
What is Religious Studies? A Journey of Inquiry
Author(s): Kristin M Swenson, Esther R Nelson
Most students don't really know what Religious Studies is, nor are they prepared to study this important discipline. What is Religious Studies? A Journey of Inquiry teaches them what is involved in the academic study of religion as they develop a working vocabulary of key terms and concepts. Using m...
Biological Perspectives
Author(s): Biological Sciences Curriculum Studies
An Inquiry-Based Textbook for Non-Majors Biological Perspectives presents active, collaborative, and inquiry-based instruction for non-majors by providing a variety of experiences that challenge students to think, discuss, and write about information they are learning. Biological Perspectives uses i...
Teaching Reading Pre-K to Grade 3 w/CD-ROM
Author(s): Jerry Johns, Susan Lenski, Laurie Elish-Piper
This book broadens the scope of teaching and assessment strategies critical for addressing a wide range of abilities of children in Pre-K to Grade 3. This edition provides teachers with research-based, practical teaching and assessment strategies to support the reading development of all children in...
Integrated Content Literacy
Author(s): Ray Wolpow, Marian J Tonjes
Integrated Content Literacy is a practical text for improving learning in the content areas and is based on current theory. Includes chapters on assessment of text, reading rate adaptability, and vocabulary development. Explicit references to state, national, and international standards are presente...
Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age of Neuroscience
Author(s): Don E Jacobs
This text introduces students to "neurocriminalistics" (Jacobs 2005), the New School neuroscience of the violent criminal mind interpreted by high resolution brain scans and by brain fingerprinting and other state of the art neuropsych paradigms. Criminal Psychology: Sexual Predators in the Age o...