Rise and Shine STAAR Prep Grade 8 Editing and Revising Teacher Edition


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Do you need a resource to give your students extensive practice in the often difficult and elusive skills of editing and revising? These workbooksmay be just what you're looking for. Students are required to read passages embedded with errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. They are then asked multiple-choice questions designed to help them recognize and correct these mistakes. These exercises will help students to better understand the essentialskills of finding and correcting editorial problems and revising writing appropriately. Students will soon be on their way to mastering these two very important steps in the writing process.• Hours of practice on skills leading to editing and revising mastery.• High-interest passages embedded with the most common errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization.• Multiple-choice questions after each passage help students find, recognize and correct mistakes.• Teacher Editions provide correct answers and identify the skill targeted in each question. Grade Levels 2–8. Also great for home schooling!




Rise & Shine Staar Prep Grade 8


Book Description

Do you need a resource to give your students extensive practice in the often difficult and elusive skills of editing and revising? These workbooksmay be just what you're looking for. Students are required to read passages embedded with errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization. They are then asked multiple-choice questions designed to help them recognize and correct these mistakes. These exercises will help students to better understand the essentialskills of finding and correcting editorial problems and revising writing appropriately. Students will soon be on their way to mastering these two very important steps in the writing process.• Hours of practice on skills leading to editing and revising mastery.• High-interest passages embedded with the most common errors of grammar, usage, mechanics, content, and organization.• Multiple-choice questions after each passage help students find, recognize and correct mistakes.• Teacher Editions provide correct answers and identify the skill targeted in each question. Grade Levels 2–8. Also great for home schooling!




Proofreading, Revising & Editing Skills Success in 20 Minutes a Day


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"In this eBook, you'll learn the principles of grammar and how to manipulate your words until they're just right. Strengthen your revising and editing skills and become a clear and consistent writer." --




Nurse as Educator


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Designed to teach nurses about the development, motivational, and sociocultural differences that affect teaching and learning, this text combines theoretical and pragmatic content in a balanced, complete style. --from publisher description.




Daily Paragraph Editing, Grade 3 Teacher Edition


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Daily Paragraph Editing, Grade 3 covers grade-level skills in these areas: - capitalization - language usage - punctuation: apostrophes - punctuation: commas - punctuation: periods - punctuation: quotation marks - other types of punctuation - spelling Daily Paragraph Editing "extras" include: - a reproducible student language handbook that provides simple, clear rules and examples of their application to guide students in correct use of the mechanics, grammar, and spelling skills covered in the daily paragraphs. - a page of reproducible proofreading marks that models the standard markings used to correct and edit text. - an editing checklist to guide students in reviewing and revising their own writing or that of a peer. - an assessment rubric to guide teachers in conducting a holistic evaluation of student writing.




Silk Umbrellas


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"A sensitive portrayal of a family in Thailand. . . . This gracefully told story will resonate with many young readers." — Booklist (starred review) Eleven-year-old Noi is learning to paint like her grandmother. She and her older sister, Ting, spend many rapt hours in the jungle watching as Kun Ya paints delicate silk umbrellas to sell at the market. But one day Kun Ma and Kun Pa announce that Ting must start working at a local radio factory to help support the family. As the days and weeks pass, Noi anxiously sees her own fate reflected in her sister’s constricting world. Can Noi find a way to master her fear of failure and stand up for her gift — and Kun Ya’s tradition — before the future masters her?




How to Change Your Mind


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Now on Netflix as a 4-part documentary series! “Pollan keeps you turning the pages . . . cleareyed and assured.” —New York Times A #1 New York Times Bestseller, New York Times Book Review 10 Best Books of 2018, and New York Times Notable Book A brilliant and brave investigation into the medical and scientific revolution taking place around psychedelic drugs--and the spellbinding story of his own life-changing psychedelic experiences When Michael Pollan set out to research how LSD and psilocybin (the active ingredient in magic mushrooms) are being used to provide relief to people suffering from difficult-to-treat conditions such as depression, addiction and anxiety, he did not intend to write what is undoubtedly his most personal book. But upon discovering how these remarkable substances are improving the lives not only of the mentally ill but also of healthy people coming to grips with the challenges of everyday life, he decided to explore the landscape of the mind in the first person as well as the third. Thus began a singular adventure into various altered states of consciousness, along with a dive deep into both the latest brain science and the thriving underground community of psychedelic therapists. Pollan sifts the historical record to separate the truth about these mysterious drugs from the myths that have surrounded them since the 1960s, when a handful of psychedelic evangelists inadvertently catalyzed a powerful backlash against what was then a promising field of research. A unique and elegant blend of science, memoir, travel writing, history, and medicine, How to Change Your Mind is a triumph of participatory journalism. By turns dazzling and edifying, it is the gripping account of a journey to an exciting and unexpected new frontier in our understanding of the mind, the self, and our place in the world. The true subject of Pollan's "mental travelogue" is not just psychedelic drugs but also the eternal puzzle of human consciousness and how, in a world that offers us both suffering and joy, we can do our best to be fully present and find meaning in our lives.




The Public Diplomacy Reader


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The Public Diplomacy Reader is a 500-page compendium of intellectual and practical tools for the cross-cultural communicator. Designed for students, diplomats, military officers, intelligence professionals and other practitioners, the Reader is meant to be used as an instrument and guide in waging the war of ideas. Naval War College Professor of Strategy Carnes Lord describes The Public Diplomacy Reader as "a unique and outstanding compilation of materials on public diplomacy." Former Voice of America Director Robert R. Reilly says the book "brings the wealth of experience and knowledge" of an experienced public diplomacy practitioner to "both students and anyone wishing to win 'the war of ideas.'" The Public Diplomacy Reader is edited by J. Michael Waller, the Walter and Leonore Annenberg Professor of International Communication at The Institute of World Politics in Washington, D.C., and author of the ground-breaking 2007 book, Fighting the War of Ideas like a Real War.







Playing with the Past


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Game Studies is a rapidly growing area of contemporary scholarship, yet volumes in the area have tended to focus on more general issues. With Playing with the Past, game studies is taken to the next level by offering a specific and detailed analysis of one area of digital game play -- the representation of history. The collection focuses on the ways in which gamers engage with, play with, recreate, subvert, reverse and direct the historical past, and what effect this has on the ways in which we go about constructing the present or imagining a future. What can World War Two strategy games teach us about the reality of this complex and multifaceted period? Do the possibilities of playing with the past change the way we understand history? If we embody a colonialist's perspective to conquer 'primitive' tribes in Colonization, does this privilege a distinct way of viewing history as benevolent intervention over imperialist expansion? The fusion of these two fields allows the editors to pose new questions about the ways in which gamers interact with their game worlds. Drawing these threads together, the collection concludes by asking whether digital games - which represent history or historical change - alter the way we, today, understand history itself.