REA's CSET: English Subtests I-IV with Online Tests Gets You Certified and in the Classroom! California requires all prospective English teachers to take the CSET: English Test. Recently, the CSET: English subtests were revised to align more closely with the California Common Core State Standards. The subtests also include new material in the areas of writing across the curriculum, reading and analyzing a variety of informational texts, and analyzing the details of dramatic works and performance. This third edition of our CSET (California Subject Examinations for Teachers) English Subtests I-IV test prep has been expanded to address these changes. It includes: * A complete overview of the four CSET: English subtests * A comprehensive review of every domain, with updated material * Two full-length practice tests for each subtest (in the book and online), with online diagnostic tools to help you personalize your study Our book is perfect for teacher education students and career-changing professionals who are looking to teach English in California. The skills required for all four subtests fulfill the objectives set by the California Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy and the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing. This all-new test prep contains an in-depth review of all the competencies tested on the CSET English Subtests I-IV: Literature and Reading Informational Texts; Composition and Rhetoric; Language, Linguistics, and Literacy; Communication, Speech, Media and Creative Performance. The book includes 2 full-length practice exams based on actual CSET questions. Both practice tests are also available online with instant scoring, diagnostic feedback, and detailed answer explanations. Automatic scoring and instant reports help you zero in on the topics and types of questions that give you trouble now, so you will succeed when it counts. REA's CSET: English Subtests I-IV test prep is a must-have for anyone who wants to teach English in California!
Authors Franki Sibberson and Karen Szymusiak are back with an updated version of Still Learning to Read: Teaching Students in Grades 3-6, 2nd Edition. In the years since the first edition, prevalence of testing and Common Core State Standards have redefined requirements and what is expected of both teachers and students.This new edition focuses on the needs of students in grades 3-6 in for the following areas: reading workshops, read-alouds, classroom design, digital tools, fiction and nonfiction, and close reading. The authors examine current trends in literacy and introduce a new section on intentional instructional planning, as well as a new chapter on scaffolding for reading nonfiction. Expanded examples of lessons and routines to promote deeper thinking about learning are also included.In Still Learning to Read, you'll also find online videos that provide insight into classrooms. Students make book choices, work in small groups, and discuss their reading notebooks. Finally, updated and expanded book lists, recommendations for digital tools, lesson cycles, and sections for school leaders round out this foundational resource.
A boy who will do anything to avoid bedtime finally “meets his match in this hilarious” illustrated children’s book “sure to leave readers in stitches” (Kirkus, starred review). Every kind of bird and beast has to sleep, from the monkeys in the jungle to the whales in the ocean to the ants under the ground. But not Fred. His to-do list is far too long! Armed with plenty of imagination, this determined little boy and his attempts to resist bedtime are sure to strike a chord with today's over-scheduled families. Drowsy animals of all stripes look on in disbelief as Fred keeps on going and going and going, until . . . Could it be that, after so much activity, even Fred needs to rest? Shhh. Close the book softly, and please let Fred sleep
“Whole-class reading instruction has the power to harness the collective knowledge of the reading community that will foster independent readers and thinkers as they move through their literate lives.” What is the true purpose of whole-group reading instruction? Is it possible to teach standards and skills while also creating a community in which students are free to bring their whole selves into the work of reading? And how do we make this vision an everyday reality in our grades 3-6 classrooms? Elementary educators Lynsey Burkins and Franki Sibberson answer these questions and more in In Community With Readers: Transforming Reading Instruction with Read-Alouds and Minilessons. Burkins and Sibberson invite us into their classrooms as they redesign read-alouds and minilessons to support readers in whole-group reading instruction. Inside this book you’ll find: ● Ideas for co-creating a community aligned to standards and grounded in readers’ identity, independence, and agency ● A day-by-day look into what read-alouds and minilessons look like across a reading unit ● Practical and meaningful routines for helping students co-construct an understanding of the standards, the books they read, and one another’s ideas ● Planning and note-taking templates designed to center both the standards we teach and the ideas our students bring to these standards ● An illustrated step-by-step guide to the first eight weeks of whole-group reading instruction In this book, Burkins and Sibberson push back on the idea that whole-group reading instruction must be teacher-centered skill and drill, and instead offer us a way to create a truly meaningful whole-group reading community.
Amelia and her best friend, Princess Sparkle-Heart, do almost everything together, so when the Princess suffers an accident, Amelia's mother puts her sewing box to good use and makes the doll better than ever.
Allie's back with a brand-new set of rules!Allie plans on having the best weekend ever when she finds out Erica's sister Missy is in the regional Twirltacular baton competition-until Allie's mom announces that she has to go to Brittany Hauser's birthday party instead. But Allie doesn't even like Brittany Hauser, nor does she want to go to a party with Brittany and all her snobby friends.But when Allie finds out Brittany's party includes taking a stretch limo to Glitterati, the store of the girls' dreams, and spending the night at a deluxe hotel suite, she decides maybe Brittany's not so bad after all.
The sizzling novel of two passionate and talented women—and the man they both love… Alison Sterling, beautiful, brilliant, and blonde—and a reporter for a major Washington daily—is embroiled in a secret love affair with the sexy, successful, very married bureau chief of a national newsweekly, Desmond Shaw. Meanwhile, Shaw is having an affair with Sadie Grey, the Southern belle wife of the Vice President. And Sadie Grey is having the time of her life. Irresistible love triangles—which begin as physical attraction and turn into love—are set amidst the dazzling, social whirl of power and politics, and “there’s plenty to keep the pages turning” (Cosmopolitan).
Morgan has found her mother’s Wiccan tools, and her relationship with Cal is strong. Everything seems perfect. Except that Cal’s half brother, Hunter, is stalking them. Hunter claims to be a Seeker who is investigating Cal for the misuse of magick. Whom can she trust?