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A child compares the small garden creatures to what they know of space invaders. Full text translations in both English and Spanish. Keyword vocabulary page at the back of the book offering words in both languages.

Includes: Evaluation by Teachers - observations, notes, data booklets, student files and portfolios, checklists, student cards -- Evaluation by Students -peer evaluation, student teacher conferences, self-evaluation -- Evauation by Parents - communication with paretns, parent conferences -- Report Cards - writing and anecdotal report, sample report cards, sending the report card home.

Includes: A Framework for Change - Redefining and reforming instructional support programs for at risk students - Flunking throwing good money after bad - Estimating cost-effectiveness and educational outcomes: retention, remediation, special education, and early intervention - Portfolios in the classroom: what happens when teachers and students negotiate assessment? --- Case Studies of School Change - Literacy partnerships for change with "at-risk" kindergartners - Reducing retention and learning disability placement through reading recovery: an educationally sound cost-effective choice - Eliminating ability grouping and reducing failure in the primary grades - First grade teachers provide early reading intervention in the classroom - Scoring well on tests or becoming genuinely literate: rethinking remediation in a small rural school - Improving early literacy: Vermont stories of educational change from the bottom up and the top down - Change in urban schools with high concentrations of low-income children - The implementation of the accelerated school model in an urban elementary school - No quick fix: where do we go from here?.

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This volume begins to address the pressing need facing the majority of teachers in the United States and in other countries in the English speaking world on how to teach children whose primary laguage is not English.

An illustrated sign language dictionary with vocabulary words arranged by subject.

Presents 1,500 basic words in the Italian language. Each entry consists of a headword given in English followed by its Italian translation and is accompanied by example sentences. Illustrations are used to show the meaning of each word.