Please Don't Sit on the Kids, Grades Toddler - 6


Book Description

This second edition to the best-selling Please Don't Sit on the Kids offers positive, insightful advice to teachers looking for new ways to manage behavior in the early childhood classroom. The "magic list" of alternatives empowers teachers to stop inappropriate behavior in the classroom, model constructive methods for handling anger, and help children develop social responsibility. Real-life examples are provided. 128 pp.




Ready-to-Use Social Skills Lessons & Activities for Grades 4 - 6


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This unique Library gives teachers and specialists a stimulating, systematic way to develop positive social behaviors in students of all abilities, grades 4-12. Included are over 125 tested lessons and reproducible worksheets in two separately printed, self-contained volumes, each tailored to the developmental needs of students at a particular grade level, 4-6 or 7-12. For easy use, the lessons in each volume follow a uniform format, including titles, behavioral objective, and simple 8-step lesson plan. The lesson activities and worksheets are based on real-life situations and help build students' self-esteem, self-control, and respect for the rights of others.




How I Met My Monster


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One night, when Ethan reaches under his bed for a toy truck, he finds this note instead: "Monsters! Meet here for final test." Ethan is sure his parents are trying to trick him into staying under the covers, until he sees five colorful sets of eyes blinking at him from beneath the bed. Soon, a colorful parade of quirky, squeaky little monsters compete to become Ethan's monster. But only the little green monster, Gabe, has the perfect blend of stomach-rumbling and snorting needed to get Ethan into bed and keep him there so he falls asleep—which as everyone knows, is the real reason for monsters under beds. With its perfect balance of giggles and shivers, this silly-spooky prequel to the award-winning I Need My Monster and Hey, That's MY Monster! will keep young readers entertained.




How to Get Your Teacher Ready


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Learn how to get your teacher ready for back to school…from the first dayl to graduation! The kids are in charge in this hilarious classroom adventure--from the creators of the New York Times bestseller How to Babysit a Grandpa. This humorous new book in the beloved HOW TO . . . series takes readers through a fun and busy school year. Written in tongue-in-cheek instructional style, a class of adorable students gives tips and tricks for getting a teacher ready—for the first day of school, and all the events and milestones that will follow (picture day, holiday concert, the 100th day of school, field day!). And along the way, children will see that getting their teacher ready is really getting themselves ready. Filled with charming role-reversal humor, this is a playful and heartwarming celebration of teachers and students. A fun read-a-loud to prepare for first day jitters, back-to-school readiness or end of year celebrations.. The fun doesn't stop! Check out more HOW TO... picture books: How to Babysit a Grandpa How to Babysit a Grandma How to Catch Santa How to Get Your Teacher Ready How to Raise a Mom How to Read to a Grandma or Grandpa




The Smartest Kids in the World


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Following three teenagers who chose to spend one school year living in Finland, South Korea, and Poland, a literary journalist recounts how attitudes, parenting, and rigorous teaching have revolutionized these countries' education results.




Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese


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"Give me the salt" and "Please pass the salt" make the same request, but in a polite situation the first utterance may give offense, while the second may not. How and why such differences in wording and intonation, in a particular context, produce different effects is the concern of pragmatics, the area of linguistics that deals with how speech is used in interaction. In this innovative study of pragmatics in Brazilian Portuguese, Dale Koike analyzes the politeness phenomenon, specifically in the context of speech acts known as "directives." As acts intended to get someone to do something, directives bring into play a variety of sociocultural factors, depending on the relationship between the participants. Using empirical data obtained through natural language observation and from questionnaires of over one hundred adult native speakers, Koike identifies factors—such as age, education, and gender—that influence the strategies of politeness a given speaker is likely to use in making a directive. This research clarifies the unwritten language rules and assumptions that native speakers intuitively follow in phrasing their directive utterances. Koike also includes important material on the acquisition of strategies for politeness by children and adult second-language learners, as well as on gender differences in politeness forms. Her research proposes important additions to the theory of speech acts as conceived by Austin and Searle, particularly in the application of deictic organization to account for a hierarchy of pragmatic forms. Language and Social Relationship in Brazilian Portuguese will be of interest to a wide audience in diverse fields, including linguistics, anthropology, interaction analysis, communications, semantics, sociology, psychology, and education.




FTCE Exceptional Student Education (ESE) - 2nd EDITION


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This is a comprehensive study guide that covers all competencies and skills assessed on the FTCE ESE. This book has been updated to include new information and an extra practice test. The book contains a detailed overview of each competency and two, 120-question practice tests with detailed answer explanations.




Building Comprehension - Grade 6


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This series helps students enjoy reading at every grade level. The authors have been careful in selecting materials and topics of particular interest to all students. The lessons are designed to encourage independent reading.




English & Grammar, Grade 4


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The Brighter Child(R) English & Grammar workbook provides children in fourth grade with necessary grammar instruction. With 80 pages of full-color activities and easy-to-follow directions, children will have fun learning sentence structure, punctuation, usage and more! --This workbook features activities that teach: --*Parts of a sentence --*Nouns & pronouns --*Subjects & predicates --*Past, present, and future tense verbs --*Transitive and intransitives verbs --*Direct and indirect objects --*Adjectives & adverbs --*Correct word usage --*Types of sentences --*Conjunctions --*Punctuation --*Proofreading --The popular Brighter Child Workbook series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information in subject-specific workbooks. This series helps prepare children by giving them a solid foundation in key skills necessary for success in the classroom!




Advantage Test Prep Grade 6


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"The Advantage Test Prep Series helps prepare students to perform better on test by familiarizing them with test formats, questions types, and content."--Page 4 of cover.