Transforming Preschool Storytime

Transforming Preschool Storytime
Author: Betsy Diamant-Cohen
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2013-06-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1555708056

According to recent research, the best way to make new connections in a child’s brain is by building on something already known. A child who loves a book will listen to it repeatedly, maintaining interest. Using a selected book in a number of consecutive preschool storytimes, but presenting it differently each time, can help children learn new skill sets. This book presents a new approach to storytime, one that employs repetition with variety to create an experience which helps children connect and engage with the story on a higher level. Diamant-Cohen, recently awarded the 2013 ASCLA Leadership and Professional Achievement Award, and Hetrick offer a year’s worth of activities specifically designed to address multiple intelligences through a repetition-based process. Incorporating recent theories on developmental learning, this book includes Scripts for 8 different books, with enough activities to repeat each one for six weeks, along with lists of optional alternative books Planning aids such as outlines of storytime sessions, a fill-in-the-blanks planning sheet, questions for evaluation, and tips for enhanced storytimes using props and crafts Detailed but straightforward explanations of theory and research that will help readers communicate effectively with parents, caregivers, and other stakeholders From setup to execution, here’s everything you need to create and implement a successful, elevated storytime.

Escape from Ann Arbor

Escape from Ann Arbor
Author: Robert C. Cooper
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2020-10-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1664134727

Shortly before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, psychotherapist Rash and his girlfriend Kayla, fearing a biological attack on the U.S. by Islamic terrorists, flee from vulnerable Ann Arbor, Michigan, to the presumed safety of Oak, a small rural town in eastern Ohio. While there the couple attempts to resolve problems in their testy relationship, but this is complicated by a local militia leader who tries to recruit Rash. The leader also recruits an expert to create a lethal virus that will target specific ethnic groups, but it turns out that the expert has a grievance-driven agenda of his own.

The Magic of Shirley Jackson

The Magic of Shirley Jackson
Author: Shirley Jackson
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 753
Release: 1966-01-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 146680050X

This collection is a generous selection of Shirley Jackson's work, consisting of three complete books: The Bird's Nest, Life Among the Savages, Raising Demons, and eleven short stories--including the world-famous "The Lottery."

THE ADRALACK CRACK ON MT. BAKER

THE ADRALACK CRACK ON MT. BAKER
Author: Beauford E. Averette
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2014-09-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1499076436

The Adralack Crack on Mt. Baker Would you risk your life exploring a lava tunnel under a glacier in wintertime? Why did Larry become the victim of a cosmic force when he stepped into the shallow rocky overhang for shelter and disintegrated? Could Adrian, who saw it happen, invent a machine that could bring him back out? Would Adrian use his machine to commit an $80,000 robbery? Would Art become obsessed with walking into the crack? Would Art’s wife find love with an old friend? Will the alien that came from Exvacia, by the cosmic force, search out and mate with Delbert? This and much more will excite your imagination and titillate your senses.

Utopian Dreams

Utopian Dreams
Author: John Hoel
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2008-10-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1467049352

In Utopian Dreams, a young research scientist works on an I.Q. enhancing drug and tries it on himself. He ends up destroying the human race and beginning again hundreds of years later as he clones his aging, almost dead, cyborg body. Other stories in this book include subjects of romance, mystery, adventure, science fiction and fantasy. Written with a wide audience in mind, the authorJohn Hoel, is at his best writing short stories. He resides in a log cabin by a pond nestled in the Ocooch Mountains of southwestern Wisconsin and writes every day.

The Fear Zone

The Fear Zone
Author: K. R. Alexander
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1338577816

When five kids are invited to a cemetery at midnight, they think it's just a prank. When they find a gravestone that instructs them to dig up a grave, they think it's just a joke.It's no joke.An evil force is unleashed - a force that takes the shape of their worst fears.A shark in the water.A ghost in the walls.A nightmare of being buried alive.A snake about to strike.A sinister clown waiting in the woods.Once these fears are released, they won't go away. Not without a fight. . . .

LIFE

LIFE
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1953-09-21
Genre:
ISBN:

LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Love is Love

Love is Love
Author: Rishav Banerjee,
Publisher: Spectrum of Thoughts
Total Pages: 1015
Release: 2022-01-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"LOVE IS LOVE" is a dream book which is compiled by LGBTQIA+ activist and famous International Author RISHAV BANERJEE in collaboration with International Author and Social Activists LIV SMITH and ANCY ZERA HUNT EVERT STANLEY, representing the USA and FRANCE respectively & also with WAYNE ADAM CUTFORTH from the UNITED KINGDOM, DAVID STORDAL, JANESSA ROSE from the CANADA & ANASTASIA DIK from Russia. Love experienced in any form shall one day overcome the hate and oppression exercised on the rainbow-hued wings of many such individuals. "LOVE IS LOVE" is just a stepping stone to a portal of beautiful stories and verses bloomed within the extraordinary writers that took part in it. The seven compilers are proud to present the ethereal creation that has taken from in the form of this anthology as an ode to all those who struggle with gender identities, sexualities and acceptance of oneself.

Hyperbole and a Half

Hyperbole and a Half
Author: Allie Brosh
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2013-10-29
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 1451666187

#1 New York Times Bestseller “Funny and smart as hell” (Bill Gates), Allie Brosh’s Hyperbole and a Half showcases her unique voice, leaping wit, and her ability to capture complex emotions with deceptively simple illustrations. FROM THE PUBLISHER: Every time Allie Brosh posts something new on her hugely popular blog Hyperbole and a Half the internet rejoices. This full-color, beautifully illustrated edition features more than fifty percent new content, with ten never-before-seen essays and one wholly revised and expanded piece as well as classics from the website like, “The God of Cake,” “Dogs Don’t Understand Basic Concepts Like Moving,” and her astonishing, “Adventures in Depression,” and “Depression Part Two,” which have been hailed as some of the most insightful meditations on the disease ever written. Brosh’s debut marks the launch of a major new American humorist who will surely make even the biggest scrooge or snob laugh. We dare you not to. FROM THE AUTHOR: This is a book I wrote. Because I wrote it, I had to figure out what to put on the back cover to explain what it is. I tried to write a long, third-person summary that would imply how great the book is and also sound vaguely authoritative—like maybe someone who isn’t me wrote it—but I soon discovered that I’m not sneaky enough to pull it off convincingly. So I decided to just make a list of things that are in the book: Pictures Words Stories about things that happened to me Stories about things that happened to other people because of me Eight billion dollars* Stories about dogs The secret to eternal happiness* *These are lies. Perhaps I have underestimated my sneakiness!