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How do you greet someone in French? What's the French word for horse? With this book, curious kids will be able to see and say simple words and phrases in French. Culturally specific photos and Pebble Sprout's interactive format make language learning a game of discovery!.

At a time when we?re constantly flooded with contradictory information and opinions, critical thinking skills are more important than ever. This accessible workbook is full of valuable insights, thought-provoking questions, and useful exercises to help teens and preteens expand their perspectives, skillfully navigate thorny issues, recognize bias, identify misinformation, and become more comfortable with dissent and differences of opinion. Becoming a Critical Thinker offers essential tools for students to mature into thoughtful, curious, and empathetic learners.

"Learn important skills to help you become a better artist with this. . . collection of art projects. [The author] brings her experience as both a teacher and a mother to ensure there's a project for every artist, whatever your interest, ability or age"--Back cover.

"[A] guide to finding joy and understanding by adopting a diverse approach to learning math . . . Stanford researcher, mathematics education professor, and the leading expert on math learning Dr. Jo Boaler argues that our differences are the key to unlocking our greatest mathematics potential . . . Boaler shares . . . neuroscientific research on how embracing the concept of 'math-ish'--a theory of mathematics as it exists in the real world--changes the way we think about mathematics, data, and ourselves. [She argues that] when we can see the value of diversity among people and multi-faceted approaches to learning math, we are free to truly flourish"--Provided by publisher.

A guide to playing the guitar that covers the kit, theory, tuning, picking, navigating the fretboard, chord variety, scales, bends, playing with expression, acoustic fingerstyle, improvisation, advanced soloing, and other related topics and offers tips on becoming an artist and guitar maintenance.

"From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos--and a call for a more just practice of science"--Amazon.

"In More Ramped-Up Read Alouds, educators will discover practical ideas for ramping up interactive read alouds to increase learners' language comprehension and build their knowledge about a wide variety of topics. The introduction details research-proven reasons that reading aloud is essential for literacy learners and shares success factors for creating engaging read-aloud experiences. With that foundational knowledge in place, readers will be able to choose from 50 read-aloud experiences, fully detailed and carefully designed to enrich and extend literacy instruction in grades K-5"--Provided by publisher.

"The writers introduce a handful of instructional shifts offered from an invitational stance to help readers consider research beyond a one size fits all mentality and confront their own biases and misunderstandings as they explore ways Balanced Literacy practitioners can reimagine early literacy instruction by incorporating some powerful tenants from the Science of Reading"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses how to teach middle and high school students report writing skills.

This book is aligned to the 4-8th Next Generation Science Standards and was produced by a team of science education teachers and consultants.