study and teaching

Presents the teacher's guide to the novel "Letters from Rifka" by Karen Hesse, and includes story summary, vocabulary exercises, comprehension and critical thinking strategies, literary analysis, graphic organizers, and discussion questions.

An instructional guide for John Boyne's novel "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" that provides close reading tasks, text-based vocabulary practice, cross-curricular activities, text-dependent questions, reader response writing prompts, and more.

"This book introduces and explores the work of embedded librarianship, specifically focusing on librarians who are embedded in actual (not virtual) college classrooms"--OCLC.

Offers advice to library staff members who are responsible for technology training, discussing the link between traditional library skills and training abilities, reviewing training principles, and discussing learning styles, activities, motivation, planning, workshops, best practices, and other topics.

Explains how to use the skillstreaming approach to teach prosocial skills to elementary students, covering effective arrangements, teaching procedures, refining skill use, teaching for skill generalization, managing problems, and other related topics and including skill outlines and homework reports.

"With the increase of American Sign Language being offered as a foreign language in high schools, this book addresses issues to better prepare high schools in their recruitment and education of new ASL students"--Provided by publisher.

A Southern folktale in which kind Blanche, following the instructions of an old witch, gains riches, while her greedy sister makes fun of the old woman and is duly rewarded.

Designed to help children connect with another environment by illuminating our ties to the tropical rain forests of the world.

"Digital citizenship curriculum needs to be taught at two levels at once--horizontal (the world immediately around students) and vertical (connecting to the rest of the world). This book provides education leaders a strategic road map that demonstrates how to incorporate these concepts into the curriculum . . . [It] provides a five-year-plan for developing a digital citizenship program in your school; covers such topics as digital ethics and leveled approaches to digital citizenship; walks through the digital citizenship responsibilities and opportunities inherent in various roles, including library media specialists, classroom educators and special ed teachers; and offers strategies for spreading digital citizenship internationally and explores the future of digital citizenship"--Provided by publisher.