Go: A Kidd’s Guide to Graphic Design
Author: Chip Kidd
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2022-06-07
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 1523515651
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Graphic Design
Author: Donna Reynolds
Publisher: Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Published: 2017-07-15
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 1534560998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough graphic design is all around us, we rarely take time to notice and appreciate it. Advertisements, logos, websites, and more all rely on graphic design to create eye-catching content. This volume explores the skills artists need to produce aesthetically pleasing designs and the development of this field into the major industry it is today. Information is included for readers who are interested in pursuing graphic design as a career, and striking photographs display some of the most innovative examples of this prominent medium.
Promoting Great Reads to Improve Teen Reading
Author: Lucy Schall
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1440834938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSupport current educational initiatives with a ready-to-use tool that will help you with selection, motivation, and skill building relative to titles published within the last five years. New demands by Common Core and other national and state standards mean teachers and librarians need support in pairing high-interest content with skill building that speaks to those standards. This hands-on, research-based resource will help. Covering 100 titles, it guides you to topics, themes, values, and activities that meet national and state standards. The book's organization—by genres, topics, and themes—will enable librarians to serve customers with specific requests and help teachers build thematic units. Focusing on recent young adult fiction and nonfiction (2010–2014), the guide offers a succinct plot summary, links to popular themes and genres, indication of reading levels, and an engaging booktalk for each title. It also includes guidelines for further promoting each book and extending knowledge through discussion. The author, a former middle and high school teacher, demonstrates how you can foster close reading through paraphrasing, comparison, and response and explains how to strengthen critical thinking among teens. Lists of related titles and notes on gender appeal can be used for readers' advisory.
Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 4 & 5
Author: Workman Publishing
Publisher: Workman Publishing
Published: 2017-04-18
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 0761189203
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStop summer slide, stay summer smart! From the creators of America’s #1 educational bestseller Brain Quest comes Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 4 & 5—a workbook, a game, and an outdoor adventure! It’s an interactive and personalized quest to keep kids excited about learning all summer long between 4th and 5th grades. Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 4 & 5 begins with a map that guides you through a workbook filled with activities based on reading comprehension, research and informative writing, grammar, multiplication and division, American history, and more. As you complete activities, you earn stickers to track your progress on the map. Jam-packed with curriculum-based exercises, bonus challenges, outside activities, over 150 stickers, a summer reading list, and a Brain Quest mini deck, Summer Brain Quest: Between Grades 4 & 5 covers the core concepts in English language arts, math, science, and social studies so kids keep essential skills sharp all summer.
Evaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults
Author: Don Latham
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2025-01-07
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1538175576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvaluating and Promoting Nonfiction for Children and Young Adults isn’t another bibliography that will quickly become outdated. Instead, it situates nonfiction resources within the recent emphasis on reading nonfiction as a way of enhancing critical thinking and combating susceptibility to “fake news.” Donald Latham offers strategies for evaluating nonfiction for the purposes of collection development, providing readers’ advisory, and developing programs using nonfiction for children and young adults. The book includes lists of professional resources as well as recommended nonfiction titles.
Mad for Ads
Author: Erica Fyvie
Publisher: Kids Can Press Ltd
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 1525307789
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA critical and entertaining exploration of advertising and its influence. For children growing up in an advertising-saturated world, here’s an eye-opening explanation of what it is, how it works and why that matters. The book covers everything from the components of an ad campaign to the ways marketers seek to influence behavior, then brings it all to life by creating two fictional advertising plans. It also describes how digital technology allows companies to track people and how that impacts privacy. It’s a savvy look at the business of advertising that empowers kids to think critically and be discerning. Kids are suckers for advertising? Not the ones who read this book!
Using the Schoolwide Enrichment Model With Technology
Author: Angela M. Housand
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-10-10
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 100049036X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing the Schoolwide Enrichment Model With Technology is an extension of a talent development model implemented in more than 2,500 schools across the U.S. and widely used internationally. More than 40 years of research and development have documented the effectiveness of the SEM approach to promoting higher level thinking skills and creative productivity. This solution-oriented book, unlike other books focused on using technology in the classroom, recognizes that digital technologies are changing and evolving at lightning speeds. Our effective skills for using technology transcend time by focusing on how to find and use digital resources and tools rather than listing the resources that already exist. Focusing on the skills that support critical thinking and problem solving, decision making, and communication, the authors seamlessly merge technology to launch students toward independent productivity. This accessible and highly practical guide is rich with examples that will change the way you think about education while providing hands-on “how-to” guidance for creating a culture of excellence and innovation in your school and classroom.
Writing, Redefined
Author: Shawna Coppola
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-10-10
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1003843743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to write or to be a writer? In Shawna Coppola's book Writing, Redefined: Broadening Our Ideas of What It Means to Compose, she challenges the reader to expand beyond standard alphabetic writing and consider alternative forms of composition when assigning writing to students. This book empowers teachers to change what counts as writing in schools and classrooms, opening the door to students who may not consider themselves to be writers, but should and can. Inside you'll find alternative, engaging writing assignments that are visual, aural, or multimodal that will involve all students, specifically those: Who prefer to compose using a wider array of forms and modes For whom standard English is not the norm Who have been identified as dyslexic Whose cultural traditions lean heavily towards more aural forms of composition Who are considered struggling writers By finding ways to accommodate all styles of writers, students are free to unleash their creativity and share their story with others. While there is no question composition in written form is important and worth of study, broadening our definition of writing expands an enormous range of possibilities for composing for all students.
Between the Lines
Author: Michael Anthony
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-09-23
Total Pages: 287
ISBN-13: 1475829159
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMichael Anthony, 20-year reading workshop practitioner at the secondary level, and Joan Kaywell, acclaimed author and advocate for young adult literature in learning, present Between the Lines, a creative paradigm shift for the English Language Arts workshop classroom. In contrast to the traditional sustained silent reading and individual conferencing model, an impractical commitment for most teachers, BtL invites collaborative engagement and active inquiry among students as well as on-demand writing and integrated YA literature, all designed to support existing middle and secondary level ELA classroom curriculum instruction and national academic learning standards while empowering English educators toward improved student literacy achievement and the creation of lifelong readers. The classroom activities, with student-friendly names like Book Chat Check and Pop Goes the Question, promote animated discussions in social learning contexts and produce writings supported by textual evidence from student selected texts. Clear step by step directions for facilitation and authentic models of resulting student writing are shared along with a standards-based lesson plan suitable for grades 6-12. Ongoing teacher/student journal conversations validate independent reader thought processes and provoke differentiated learning experiences. The book includes Common Core State Standards-based strategies for responding to students meaningfully and for inviting extensions beyond the book, motivating increasingly complex and connective writings. Sample dialogue journal entries are shared along with insightful commentary and practical analysis. Everything needed for implementing Between the Lines is contained within these pages, including a user friendly appendix filled with fully reproduceable classroom workshop materials, tips for reducing the teacher reading and writing loads, and suggestions for building an enviable classroom library stocked with award-winning adolescent literature.
A Career in Computer Graphics and Design
Author: Joe Greek
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published: 2014-12-15
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1477778896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCareer-seekers looking for a field that will take advantage of their artistic talents will find this volume immensely helpful. Readers will learn about the varied environments in which graphic designers work and the expectations that different kinds of companies have of their employees. They’ll learn how high school courses, college courses, extracurricular activities, online training resources, and internships can help prepare them for careers in computer and graphic design. There are even practical tips on getting and keeping your first job in this competitive field, as well as a useful overview of the tools and software of the trade.
