Variety Pack

Variety Pack

Author: Alice Savage

Publisher:

Published: 2017-06-20

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13: 9781938757358

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The Big Ideas readers give you information and language to sound smart in English while improving your reading speed, comprehension, and fluency. The twelve stories and articles in this low intermediate variety pack are written in simple English and explore a range of topics from surprising success stories to extreme weather to other worlds...and more. Whether you are a college student, business traveler, language lover, or just curious about what English speakers are talking about, Big Ideas can feed your knowledge and imagination, improve your English, and help you enter a conversation and have something to say.


Variety Pack

Variety Pack

Author: Alice Savage

Publisher:

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 76

ISBN-13: 9781938757341

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The Big Ideas readers give you the information and language to sound smart in English while improving your reading speed, comprehension, and fluency. The ten stories and articles in this variety pack are written in simple, accessible English, but they explore a range of topics from science & technology to fashion & music to travel & adventure. Whether you are a college student, a business traveler, a language lover, or just curious about what English speakers are talking about, Big Ideas can help.


Notable Native Americans (Big Ideas: Low Intermediate)

Notable Native Americans (Big Ideas: Low Intermediate)

Author: David Bohlke

Publisher: Wayzgoose Press

Published:

Total Pages: 79

ISBN-13:

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You may already be familiar with the names Pocahontas, Sacagawea, and Crazy Horse. But how did they become so well known? What was their early life like? How was their relationship with the early settlers to the United States? The 15 profiles in this reader go beyond the legend to tell the real stories. This book takes a look at these and other important Native Americans. You will learn about Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee alphabet. You will explore the incredible life of Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first Native American doctor in the United States. You will meet Sitting Bull, the legendary warrior who fought tirelessly against the U.S. government to protect native lands. You will also read about more contemporary Native Americans such as Olympian Jim Thorpe, astronaut John Herrington, and poet Joy Harjo. Notable Native Americans is a must-read for English language learners with an interest in learning more about the lives of the people who first called the New World home – and their modern-day descendants.


Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools

Raising Reading Achievement in Middle and High Schools

Author: Elaine K. McEwan

Publisher: Corwin Press

Published: 2006-09-26

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1412924359

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Strengthen student literacy achievement in middle and high schools! In response to the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), raising literacy levels in secondary schools has taken on a new urgency. Recognized literacy author, Elaine K. McEwan, focuses her revised second edition on enhancing the "five big ideas" for raising reading achievement with seven cognitive strategies of highly effective readers and more than twenty research-based "teaching for learning" tips to infuse into daily content instruction. Featuring reflection and discussion questions for reinforcement, this indispensable guide demonstrates how to improve students′ literacy with these five teacher-friendly strategies: Focus on changing what you can change Teach the students who can′t read how to read Teach every student how to read to learn Motivate all students to read more, to read increasingly more challenging books, and to be accountable for what they read Create a reading culture in your school With new programs designed for adolescent learners, this update provides suggestions and developmental tools to effectively strengthen reading curriculum and instruction. Reading specialists, special education teachers, literacy coaches, intervention specialists, and central office administrators can also use this essential tool for evaluating middle and high school reading programs and formulating school and district improvement goals.


Reader's Choice, 6th Edition

Reader's Choice, 6th Edition

Author: Sandra Silberstein

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2023-02-28

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0472038583

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Teaching students complex reading strategies for everyday and academic reading


Some of My Best Friends are Books

Some of My Best Friends are Books

Author: Judith Wynn Halsted

Publisher: Great Potential Press, Inc.

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 592

ISBN-13: 0910707960

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Recommends books for gifted readers that provide insights and coping skills for issues they may face from preschool through high school, featuring more than three hundred titles with brief summaries, organized by reading levels; and includes an index arranged by theme.


The Science of Weather

The Science of Weather

Author: Alex Semakin

Publisher: Wayzgoose Press

Published:

Total Pages: 83

ISBN-13:

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Every time you go outside, you experience the weather. It may be good, it may be bad, and it may be so bad that it ruins all your plans for the day. Have you ever wondered why the weather changes? Why are the changes sometimes expected and sometimes completely unexpected? Why is the weather forecast on the TV, radio or internet sometimes right and sometimes wrong? Is it possible that the forecast is correct but we don’t know how to read it? Can you predict the weather correctly yourself? You will find the answers in this book. This book is full of exciting facts about the weather and climates in different parts of the world, with some incredible examples of weather records and extreme weather events. You will learn how the earth’s climate has changed over millions of years, with ice ages following warm periods. How do we know if the global warming today is natural or man-made? This book is also about people. You will read about the lives of some great people who observed the weather, recorded it, and learned to predict it. They studied clouds and winds, they invented measuring instruments, they sailed to new unwelcoming lands to build weather stations there, they learned to use mathematics to predict weather. Through the lives of those people, you will follow the path the science called meteorology has made from ancient Mayas’ predictions to modern AI-created forecasts. You will find out how this science not only informs us but also saves lives. Finally, you will take a look into the future. Will future technology allow people to make perfect forecasts that can never be wrong?