Making Connections Level 2 Student's Book

Author: Jo McEntire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107628741
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
Making Connections Second edition teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies to prepare students for the challenges of reading college textbooks. Making Connections Second edition Level 2 Student's Book introduces fundamental reading skills and strategies such as identifying main ideas, interpreting information in charts and graphs, and preparing for reading tests. It features a variety of high-interest topics including news media, education, global business, population growth, fashion and design, and the brain.

Making Connections Level 2 Teacher's Manual

Author: Jo McEntire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107650623
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 73

Book Description
Making Connections Second edition Level 2 Student's Book introduces fundamental reading skills and strategies such as identifying main ideas, interpreting information in charts and graphs, and preparing for reading tests. It features a variety of high-interest topics including news media, education, global business, population growth, fashion and design, and the brain.

Making Connections Level 1 Student's Book

Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107683807
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
This title introduces first-time readers of academic text to basic reading strategies such as finding paragraph topics, finding supporting details and learning to read quickly.

Making Connections Level 4 Teacher's Manual

Author: Jessica Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107516168
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Making Connections Second edition teaches an extensive range of reading skills and strategies to prepare students for the challenges of reading college textbooks. Making Connections Level 4 Teacher's Manual contains teaching suggestions for each activity type as well as a complete answer key. Photocopiable unit tests contain additional thematic readings and assess how well students have learned the unit's reading skills and the unit's target vocabulary.

Making Connections

Author: Kenneth J. Pakenham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780521657167
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 370

Book Description
This comprehensive reading text was designed especially for academically and professionally oriented students. The activities provide a wide variety of practice opportunities.

The Tale of Despereaux

Author: Kate DiCamillo
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763649430
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale. Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out. With black-and-white illustrations and a refreshed cover by Timothy Basil Ering.

Making Connections

Author: Kay Kovalevs
Publisher: Educators Pub Svc Incorporated
ISBN: 9780838833087
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87

Book Description
Advance vital reading comprehension skills through a balance of appealing nonfiction and fiction titles, focus on strategies and skills critical for reading comprehension, and nonfiction features such as indexes, glossaries, tables of contents, and captions.

Final Draft Level 3 Student's Book

Author: Andrew Aquino-Cutcher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107495490
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 281

Book Description
Academic writing is difficult, and Final Draft gives students all the tools they need. Writing skills and in-depth analysis of models set the stage for development. Corpus-based vocabulary, collocations, and phrases, as well as detailed information on the grammar of writing, prepare your learners for college writing courses. Students learn to avoid plagiarism in every chapter of every level. This dedicated, long-term focus on plagiarism avoidance helps ensure that these students are able to use sources and highlight their own thoughts.

Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies

Author: Andrew P. Johnson
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1412968569
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies, Second Edition is the best text for teaching primary school teachers how to integrate social studies into other content areas. This book is a comprehensive, reader-friendly text that demonstrates how personal connections can be incorporated into social studies education while meeting the National Council for the Social Studiese(tm) thematic, pedagogical, and disciplinary standards. Praised for its eoewealth of strategies that go beyond social studies teaching,e including classroom strategies, pedagogical techniques, activities and lesson plan ideas, this book examines a variety of methods both novice and experienced teachers alike can use to integrate social studies into other content areas.

Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain

Author: Zaretta Hammond
Publisher: Corwin Press
ISBN: 1483308022
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instruction To close the achievement gap, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement. Culturally responsive instruction has shown promise, but many teachers have struggled with its implementation—until now. In this book, Zaretta Hammond draws on cutting-edge neuroscience research to offer an innovative approach for designing and implementing brain-compatible culturally responsive instruction. The book includes: Information on how one’s culture programs the brain to process data and affects learning relationships Ten “key moves” to build students’ learner operating systems and prepare them to become independent learners Prompts for action and valuable self-reflection