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Multiliteracy and Language Arts for Multicultural Classrooms

Author(s): Kalpana Mukunda Iyengar, Howard Leslie Smith

As schools receive increasing numbers of children from diverse backgrounds, teachers are challenged to offer meaningful instruction to scaffold their reading and writing development. The chapters in this volume feature asset-based approaches to literacy instruction. Readers will discover chapters in...

The Reading Steward's Handbook

Author(s): David D. Paige

The Reading Steward’s Handbook has been written to help those pursuing advanced credentials in the teaching of reading. The objective of the Handbook is to place much of what students needs regarding effective tutoring instruction in an easily referable, central location—a book! The Handbook is orga...

Using Base 10 Materials to Teach Addition and Subtraction of Two Digit Numbers

Author(s): Francis Gardella

The hands-on use of Base 10 materials by students helps them learn the meaning of whole number operations as well as understand the algorithms by which mathematics is communicated.For teachers, this text acts as a guide in this work by demonstrating how to use Base 10 materials to have students unde...

Amelia's Teacher: The Neta Snook Southern Story

Author(s): Jeanne Snook Anderson

Mary Anita “Neta” Snook was born on February 14, 1896, in the small northeast Illinois town of Mount Carroll. As far back as she could remember, she had an interest in all things mechanical and was considered a prodigy. Little did she know, this interest would put her in a position to teach the woma...

Human Anatomy Lab Manual

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This is a lab manual for a college-level human anatomy course. Mastery of anatomy requires a fair amount of memorization and recall skills. The activities in this manual encourage students to engage with new vocabulary in many ways, including grouping key terms, matching terms to structures, recalli...

What DNA Evidence Reveals About Criminals: Cold Case Criminology

Author(s): Matt DeLisi

Cold cases are resolved on an almost weekly basis by new investigative techniques and forensic technologies that can process DNA evidence from long dormant crime scenes. This DNA evidence revolution has unprecedented potential for locating missing persons, identifying crime victims, and bringing per...

Discover Your Creative Mindset

Author(s): Jae Hyeung Kang

Mindset is a compound word made of “Mind” and “Set.” To put it simply, it means a lump of thoughts. Our thoughts start from birth and continue to death. Specific thoughts gather to form a lump and develop into a mindset. We all have several mindsets within us. Like your personality, this is formed s...