Efraín of the Sonoran Desert

Efraín of the Sonoran Desert
Author: Amalia Astorga
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2001
Genre: Endangered species
ISBN:

Famed ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan learns the deeper meanings of ecology from Amalia Astorga, a Seri Indian.

Assessing and Teaching Reading Composition and Pre-Writing, K-3, Vol. 1

Assessing and Teaching Reading Composition and Pre-Writing, K-3, Vol. 1
Author: K. Michael Hibbard
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 211
Release: 2013-09-27
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1317919572

The performance tasks in this book are linked directly to instructional strategies and include holistic rubrics, analytic rubrics, and assessment lists. They can be photocopied and distributed to your students.

Cross-pollinations

Cross-pollinations
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2004
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781571312709

A pioneering ethnobotanist, Gary Paul Nabhan credits the arts with sparking unlikely scientific breakthroughs and believes that such "cross-pollination" engenders new forms of expression that are essential to discovery. In this highly readable book, he tells four stories to illustrate this idea. In the first, coping with color blindness in art class leads to his career as a scientist; in the second, ancient American Indian songs, when translated, reveal an understanding of plants and animals that rivals modern research; in the third, a poem inspires an approach to diabetes using desert plants; and in the fourth, a coalition of scientists and artists creates the Ironwood Forest National Monument in the Sonoran Desert.

The Assessment of Multilingual Learners

The Assessment of Multilingual Learners
Author: Kate Mahoney
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2024-07-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1800414994

This book is a comprehensive introduction to the topic of assessing students who use two or more languages in their daily life. The book provides foundational information for assessing multilingual learners (MLs) in schools, with an emphasis on school language and content. Major assessment ideas are viewed through a framework called PUMI (Purpose, Use, Method and Instrument) to help readers focus on important assessment principles, leading to better quality assessments for MLs. This is a substantially revised and updated second edition of The Assessment of Emergent Bilinguals. Updates in this edition include a greater focus on multilingual assessment and assessment in language contexts in addition to English/Spanish. This edition addresses both the current politics of multilingual assessment and recent theoretical developments, including an expanded exploration of translanguaging in assessment contexts. This edition aims to be more practical than the first edition, with more examples of assessments and rubrics, and a greater emphasis on using assessment results in formative ways.

Singing the Turtles to Sea

Singing the Turtles to Sea
Author: Gary Paul Nabhan
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 362
Release: 2003-06-26
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780520217317

Through stories, songs, photographs, illustrations of Comcaac arts, and discussions of Sonoran ecology, Nabhan demonstrates the irreplaceable value of this knowledge for us today.".

Red Ink

Red Ink
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2000
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: