books about: content-based

books about: content-based

books:

Content-based

Reading in Secondary Content Areas: A Language-Based Pedagogy (Michigan Teacher Training)
Mary J. Schleppegrell, Zhihui Fang

University of Michigan Press/ESL, 2008

What does it mean to teach reading in the context of the middle and high school classroom? Don?t students already know how to read by the time they get to secondary school? And how can a busy teacher take time away from the packed curriculum of science, history, mathematics, or language arts to teach reading? This book presents a linguistic ...

Content Based Curriculum for High Ability Learners

Catherine Little

Prufrock Pr, 1991

Published award-winning curriculum
Content-Based Curriculum for High Ability Learners by Joyce VanTassel-Baska and Catherine A. Little. Prufrock Press: Waco, TX 1-800-240-0333 Written by recognized gifted curriculum leader VanTassel-Baska and her associates at the Center for Gifted Education at the ...

Content Literacy: An Inquiry-Based Case Approach
Elizabeth G. Sturtevant, Wayne M. Linek

Prentice Hall, 2003

This casebook informs readers about how practicing teachers address the needs of content literacy for students in Grades 6-12 in a variety of subject areas. Thought-provoking questions and a description of the strategy involved accompany each case. Photographs, real-life examples of students' work, and teacher interviews bolster the information ...

Comprehension Strategies for English Language Learners: 30 Research-Based Reading Strategies That Help ...

Margaret Bouchard

Teaching Strategies, 2005

Good comprehensive set of strategies
This text is a good addition to an individual teacher's bag of tricks or a school's professional library. Margaret Bouchard has taken many well-known reading, writing, and thinking strategies (and has cited her sources), adapted the strategies especially for use with ...

ESL Content-Based Language Games, Puzzles, & Inventive Exercises
Imogene Forte, Mary Ann Pangle

Incentive Publications, 2001

Engaging Readers & Writers with Inquiry (Theory and Practice)

Jeffrey Wilhelm

Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching, 2007

Engaging Readers & Writers with Inquiry
I am astonished by what I am learning reading this book. Being a teacher, I now have many more pathways to engage my students and help them comprehend the information they will sorely need to succeed in their future.

ESL Active Learning Lessons: 15 Complete Content-Based Units to Reinforce Language Skills and Concepts

Imogene Forte, Mary Ann Pangle

Incentive Publications, 2001

Great Reproducibles
I just used the first lesson from this book. The reproducibles were fun and easy for my 3 refugee ESL teenagers to work with. I like it when the worksheets make my job easy.

Practical Poser 7 (Graphics Series)

Denise Tyler

Charles River Media, 2006

At last! Some POSER information that makes sense!
My last experience with POSER was ver.4 and I found it hard to understand and was less than satisfed with the results... I recently saw an advertisement for version 7 and was amazed at how much the program had advanced, now incorporating many features used in high-end ...

Teaching Content to All: Evidence-Based Inclusive Practices in Middle and Secondary Schools

B. Keith Lenz, Donald D. Deshler, ...

Allyn & Bacon, 2003

teacher resource
This is a great resource for teachers, especially at the secondary level. Keith Lenz has done a wonderful job of providing strategies which are extremely practical and easy to follow. Highly recommend this book.

Conquering the Content: A Step-by-Step Guide to Online Course Design (Online Teaching and Learning Series ...

Robin M. Smith

Jossey-Bass, 2008

Clearly organized & Very helpful
Robin Smith presents helpful advice for instructors--neophytes and experienced--in organizing their course content for online delivery. Her methods are not limited to online instructors. Smith focuses on ideas like "chunk-ability" and gives several sample formats based ...

The Content-Based Classroom: Perspectives on Integrating Language and Content

Longman Publishing Group, 1997

A Great Book
Overall, this book provides basic ideas about what your need to know in a content-based classroom. It's also a practical book which gives readers explicit explanation which clarify some misunderstood concepts in this field.

Creating Standards-Based Integrated Curriculum: Aligning Curriculum, Content, Assessment, and Instruction
Susan M. Drake

Corwin Press, 2007

"The content is powerful. Seeing examples from all grade levels is important so that each reader, regardless of teaching level, can see that it can be done in his or her situation." -Sue DeLay, Curriculum Resource Teacher, Oak Creek Franklin School District, WI "Contains real-life examples of integration, including examples of the author's own ...

Writing to Prompts in the Trait-Based Classroom: Content Areas
Ruth Culham, Amanda Wheeler

Teaching Resources, 2004

Prompts that provide all the elements students need to start writing: a role, audience, format, topic and strong verb (R.A.F.T.S).

Textpattern Solutions: PHP-Based Content Management Made Easy

Kevin Potts, Robert Sable, ...

friends of ED, 2007

Excellent Book for a Wonderful CMS
Despite using Textpattern (TXP) since I started my own website I knew there was still a lot for me to learn and also a few things that could be improved with the way I setup my site. Needless to say when I got wind of this book there was no doubt in my mind that it ...

The Simple 0-to-10 GI Diet: Lose Weight with the Easy Food Scoring System Based on the Glycemic Index

Azmina Govindji, Nina Puddefoot

Ulysses Press, 2005

One of the easiest diets to follow
This is my favorite book when it comes to weight loss. I have used it twice with great success. After the birth of my first baby I needed to lose 15 lbs and after the birth of my second baby I needed to lose 25 lbs to be back to my pre pregnancy weight. I used the book ...