The Case Of The Vanishing Golden Frogs

Author : Sandra Markle
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512457650

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The Case of the Vanishing Golden Frogs by Sandra Markle Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Panamanian golden frogs aren't just cute, little, and yellow. They're also the national symbol of Panama. But they started to disappear about fifteen years ago. What's killing them? Could it be a change in their habitat? What about pollution? Might it be a result of climate change? Follow a team of scientists working to save these frogs and protect frog populations worldwide in this real-life science mystery.

Author : Tim Halliday,W. Ronald Heyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Amphibians
ISBN : OCLC:1026733469

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The case of the vanishing frogs by Tim Halliday,W. Ronald Heyer Pdf

Author : Roger Sutton,Daryl Grabarek
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781442236103

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The Common Core in Grades 4-6 by Roger Sutton,Daryl Grabarek Pdf

The Classroom Go-To Guide for the Common Core is the first in a series of comprehensive tools to tap into the vast flow of recently published books for children and teens, offering recommendations of exemplary titles for use in the classroom. Currency meets authority, brought to you by the editors of the highly regarded review sources, School Library Journal and The Horn Book Magazine. This guide includes approximately 200 selections published since 2007 for grades 4-6 recommended by The Horn Book Magazine. The titles are grouped by subject and complemented by School Library Journal’s “Focus On” columns, which spotlight specific topics across the curriculum. Providing context for the guide, and suggestions on how to use these resources within a standards framework, is an introduction by Common Core experts Mary Ann Cappiello and Myra Zarnowski. These experts provide perspective on the key changes brought by the new standards, including suggestions on designing lessons and two samples plans. Following the introduction, you’ll find a wealth of books, by category. Each section includes a listing of the top titles with brief, explicit annotations, and key bibliographic data. “Focus On” articles are appended to appropriate categories to support in-depth curricular development. Each of these articles includes a topic overview and list of current and retrospective resources (including some fiction), and multimedia, that will enable educators to respond to Common Core State Standards call to work across formats.

Author : Marianne Saccardi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781610693561

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Creativity and Children's Literature by Marianne Saccardi Pdf

Today's students need to be able to do more than score well on tests—they must be creative thinkers and problem solvers. The tools in this book will help teachers and parents start students on the path to becoming innovative, successful individuals in the 21st century workforce. The children in classrooms today will soon become adult members of society: they will need to apply divergent thinking skills to be effective in all aspects of their lives, regardless of their specific occupation. How well your students meet complicated challenges and take advantage of the opportunities before them decades down the road will depend largely upon the kind of thinking they are trained and encouraged to do today. This book provides a game plan for busy librarians and teachers to develop their students' abilities to arrive at new ideas by utilizing children's books at hand. Following an introduction in which the author defines divergent thinking, discusses its characteristics, and establishes its vital importance, chapters dedicated to types of literature for children such as fantasy, poetry, and non-fiction present specific titles and relevant activities geared to fostering divergent thinking in young minds. Parents will find the recommendations of the kinds of books to read with their children and explanations of how to engage their children in conversations that will help their creative thinking skills extremely beneficial. The book also includes a case study of a fourth-grade class that applied the principles of divergent thinking to imagine innovative designs and come up with new ideas while studying a social studies/science unit on ecology.

Author : Sarah L. Thomson,Chelsea Clinton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780593404133

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Save the...Frogs by Sarah L. Thomson,Chelsea Clinton Pdf

Frogs have hopped and croaked their ways into kids' hearts. With this book, readers can become frog experts and learn how to save the animals they love. Featuring an introduction from Chelsea Clinton! Did you know that some frogs can leap twenty times the length of their own bodies? How about that the largest frog in the world weighs more than a chihuahua? Or that frogs drink through their skin and not through their mouths? Perfect for all animal lovers—and frog fans in particular—this book is filled with all the facts you need to know to become a frog expert! Where are frogs found? What's it like to be a frog? Why are frogs endangered, and who has been working hard to save them? Read this book and find out how you can help save the frogs! Complete with black-and-white photographs, a list of fun frog facts, and things that kids can do right this very moment to help save frogs from extinction, this book, with an introduction by animal advocate Chelsea Clinton, is a must for every family, school, and community library.

Author : Sunday Cummins
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462518500

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Unpacking Complexity in Informational Texts by Sunday Cummins Pdf

To acquire content knowledge through reading, students must understand the complex components and diverse purposes of informational texts, as emphasized in the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). This practical book illuminates the ways in which a text?s purpose, structure, details, connective language, and construction of themes combine to create meaning. Classroom-tested instructional recommendations and "kid-friendly" explanations guide teachers in helping students to identify and understand the role of these elements in different types of informational texts. Numerous student work samples, excerpts from exemplary books and articles, and a Study Guide with discussion questions and activities for professional learning add to the book?s utility. ÿ

Author : Marty Crump
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-06-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0226121984

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In Search of the Golden Frog by Marty Crump Pdf

A "chronicle of Crump's three decades as a field biologist--and as a wife and mother--in South and Central America."--Jacket.

Author : Kent Woodry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1410781801

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The Case of the Golden Frog by Kent Woodry Pdf

The revealed woman balances at the edge of the precipice. Will she plummet to her demise or soar with the eagles? Is it wings that flow behind her or the tattered remnants of her spirit? Will she be more than a survivor or can she survive the journey at all? Behold, The Power of The Wind is the autobiography of novelist Kitty Wise, as she gambles her very soul to find out who she is in a world full of haphazard events and men of notoriety. With three-dimensional clarity the vista of her life is all- inclusive in this trilogy. Wise's ability to write nonfiction, as well as the novel, is demonstrated here and in A Lost Soul (as K. Wise), Somewhere Beyond Tomorrow, and The Divine Miss Genevieve (release 2003). Teaching Parents To Be Good Teachers: First Do No Harm is a self-help guide for the family.

Author : Cappiello, Mary Ann
Publisher : Shell Education
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781618139207

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Teaching to Complexity: A Framework to Evaluate Literary and Content-Area Texts by Cappiello, Mary Ann Pdf

As an important tool for instruction and text selection, Teaching to Text Complexity helps teachers learn to evaluate children's and young adult literature and informational text for quality and complexity to support rigorous literacy and content learning. In addition, this timely resource explores how instructional purpose shapes not only the kinds of curricular texts used, but also considers their complexity relative to readers. By offering a framework for text selection, this book helps teachers more deeply understand text complexity in today's standards as well as its importance when building and using text sets in the classroom and reading for different purposes.

Author : Christine V. McDonald,Fouad Abd-El-Khalick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317307273

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Representations of Nature of Science in School Science Textbooks by Christine V. McDonald,Fouad Abd-El-Khalick Pdf

Bringing together international research on nature of science (NOS) representations in science textbooks, the unique analyses presented in this volume provides a global perspective on NOS from elementary to college level and discusses the practical implications in various regions across the globe. Contributing authors highlight the similarities and differences in NOS representations and provide recommendations for future science textbooks. This comprehensive analysis is a definitive reference work for the field of science education.

Author : Candice Ransom
Publisher : Lerner Digital ™
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781512464313

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Endangered and Extinct Amphibians by Candice Ransom Pdf

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Hewitt's ghost frogs and arroyo toads are two examples of endangered amphibians. Few of them exist in the wild. Other amphibians have already gone extinct. What hurts these animals? What can you do to help? Read this book to find out!

Author : William Patrick Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442238626

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The Mother of All Booklists by William Patrick Martin Pdf

The Mother of All Booklists: The 500 Most Recommended Nonfiction Reads for Ages 3 to 103 is written for parents, grandparents, and teachers unfamiliar with the bewildering array of award and recommended reading lists. This book is a long overdue composite of all the major booklists. It brings together over 100 of the most influential book awards and reading lists from leading magazines, newspapers, reference books, schools, libraries, parenting organizations, and professional groups from across the country. The Mother of All Booklists is to reading books what the website Rotten Tomatoes is to watching movies—the ultimate, one-stop, synthesizing resource for finding out what is best. Mother is not the opinion of one book critic, but the aggregate opinion of an army of critics. Organized into five age group lists each with one hundred books—preschoolers (ages 3-5), early readers (ages 5-9), middle readers (ages 9-13), young adults (ages 13-17), and adults (ages 18+)—The Mother of All Booklists amalgamates the knowledge of the best English-language booklists in the United States, including a few from Canada and Great Britain. Each of the 500 books is annotated, describing the contents of the book and suggesting why the book is unique and important. Each includes a picture of the book cover.

Author : Vivian Yenika-Agbaw,Ruth McKoy Lowery,Laura Anne Hudock,Paul H. Ricks
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781475843439

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Exploring Nonfiction Literacies by Vivian Yenika-Agbaw,Ruth McKoy Lowery,Laura Anne Hudock,Paul H. Ricks Pdf

This book recognizes nonfiction text as a staple part of the literacy curriculum and advocates that educators include it in their daily practices. It offers innovative ideas on how these texts can be used to nurture literacy acquisition, growth, and fluency in and out of the classroom.

Author : Laurie E. Westphal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000491722

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Differentiating Instruction With Menus for the Inclusive Classroom by Laurie E. Westphal Pdf

Differentiating Instruction With Menus for the Inclusive Classroom: Language Arts for grades 6-8 offers teachers who have multiple ability levels in one classroom everything they need to create a student-centered learning environment based on choice. For each topic covered, there are two menus that look similar but contain differentiated content: one menu for students working on grade level and the other for students working below grade level. Using the creative, challenging choices found in Tic-Tac-Toe menus, List menus, 2-5-8 menus, and Game Show menus, students will demonstrate their knowledge with unique, exciting products. Also included are specific guidelines for products, assessment rubrics, and teacher introduction pages for each menu. These menus can also be used in conjunction with the Differentiating Instruction With Menus series (for students working above grade level) for three tiers of complementary menus. Grades 6-8

Author : Barbara Moss,Virginia Loh-Hagan
Publisher : Guilford Publications
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781462526093

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40 Strategies for Guiding Readers Through Informational Texts by Barbara Moss,Virginia Loh-Hagan Pdf

Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for today's K-12 students. This carefully crafted book offers 40 standards-based instructional activities that teachers can immediately put to use in the classroom. Clear rationales and step-by-step instructions are provided for implementing each strategy, together with helpful classroom examples and suggested texts for different grade levels. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the book includes 44 reproducible worksheets. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. (Prior edition title: 35 Strategies for Guiding Readers through Informational Texts.) New to This Edition *Now features more strategies, including 16 that are completely new. *Explicit links throughout to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and other current standards. *Two additional strands of activities: Reading Closely and Discussion. *Numerous new and revised reproducible tools--all downloadable.