handbooks, manuals, etc

A resource guide for teachers that provides practical information, book summaries, literary insights, and teaching ideas for approximately 150 books appropriate for fourth and fifth graders.

Offers advice and insights to writing instructors on how to teach and develop curriculum based on their own experiences of reading and writing, and the resulting knowledge of how finished writing comes to be.

Explains to teachers how to use classroom experience as research, providing twenty-eight project examples from teachers of K-college and covering such topics as ethical considerations, students as research partners, and the role of administrators.

Offers new teachers an overview of the many issues they weren't introduced to in college courses, including information on classroom management, effective classroom strategies, classroom management, and other related topics.

Provides reference information for authors, editors, proofreaders, and others who work with words, presenting style guidelines for the parts of a published work, proofs, grammar and usage, punctuation, names and terms, illustrations and captions, and other issues.

Presents a collection of illustrated step-by-step instructions performing a wide range of tasks, from changing a bike tire and baking chocolate cookies, to drawing cartoons and taking professional photographs.

Contains a complete learning guide to sign language including over thirteen hundred basic words, illustrated hand positions, group signs, finger spelling exercises, and memory aids.

An introduction to sign language containing over 150 fully illustrated signs, familiar phrases, and basic sentences.

Offers practical advice for babysitters, covering such basic topics as feeding, crying, keeping children amused, first aid, bedtime, and more.