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| Author | : Saskia Lacey |
| Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
| Total Pages | : 67 |
| Release | : 2017-03-31 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 148075742X |
Weird Things We Do for Fun offers an exciting nonfiction reader that builds critical reading skills while students are immersed in engaging subject area content. This text is purposefully leveled to increase comprehension with different learner types. Weird Things We Do for Fun features complex and rigorous content appropriate for middle school students. Aligned with Common Core State Standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career readiness.
| Author | : Saskia Lacey |
| Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
| Total Pages | : 67 |
| Release | : 2017-03-31 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1493837281 |
From chess boxing to worm charming, our planet is filled with some peculiar pastimes. Learn about the strange and unusual ways that people from around the world choose to pass the time. Developed by Timothy Rasinski-a leading expert in reading research-this 6-Pack of nonfiction readers guides students to increased fluency and comprehension of nonfiction text. The complex text structure adds rigor and allows students to delve deeply into the subject matter. The images support the text in abstract ways to challenge students to think more deeply about the topics and develop their higher-order thinking skills. Informational text features include a table of contents, sidebars, captions, bold font, an extensive glossary, and a detailed index to further understanding and build academic vocabulary. The Reader's Guide and Try It! culminating activity require students to connect back to the text, and provide opportunities for additional language-development activities. Aligned with state standards, this text connects with McREL, WIDA/TESOL standards and prepares students for college and career. This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title and a lesson plan.
| Author | : Daniel H. Pink |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2011-04-05 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1101524383 |
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world. Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
| Author | : Kristin Kemp |
| Publisher | : Teacher Created Materials |
| Total Pages | : 114 |
| Release | : 2017-03-31 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1493837346 |
The Assessment Guide for TIME FOR KIDS®: Nonfiction Readers offers an exciting mix of support materials for science, mathematics, and social studies lessons plans. Developed by one of the leading experts in reading research - Timothy Rasinski - this Assessment Guide provides researched-based methods to boost student reading skills. The Assessment Guide features fluency and writing ruberics, comprehension assignments for each reader, as well as teacher best practices.
| Author | : Highlights |
| Publisher | : Highlights Press |
| Total Pages | : 386 |
| Release | : 1901 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1644722453 |
The Highlights Book of Things to Do is the essential book of pure creativity and inspiration. Kids ages seven and up will find hundreds of ways to build, play, experiment, craft, cook, dream, think, and become outstanding citizens of the world. This highly visual, hands-on activity book shows kids some of the best ways to do great things--from practicing the lost arts of knot-tying, building campfires, connecting circuits, playing jump rope, drawing maps, and writing letters, to learning how to empower themselves socially, emotionally, and in their communities. The final chapter, Do Great Things, inspires kids become caring individuals, confident problem solvers, and thoughtful people who can change the world. Full List of Chapters: Things to Do Inside Things to Do Outside Science Experiments to Do Things to Build Things to Do with Your Brain Things to Do in the Kitchen Things to Draw Things to Write Things to Do with Color Things to Do with Paper More Things to Do with Recycled Materials Do Great Things National Parenting Seal of Approval Winner, National Parenting Product Award (NAPPA) Winner, Mom's Choice Award, Gold
| Author | : Ian Bogost |
| Publisher | : Basic Books |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2016-09-13 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0465096506 |
How filling life with play-whether soccer or lawn mowing, counting sheep or tossing Angry Birds -- forges a new path for creativity and joy in our impatient age Life is boring: filled with meetings and traffic, errands and emails. Nothing we'd ever call fun. But what if we've gotten fun wrong? In Play Anything, visionary game designer and philosopher Ian Bogost shows how we can overcome our daily anxiety; transforming the boring, ordinary world around us into one of endless, playful possibilities. The key to this playful mindset lies in discovering the secret truth of fun and games. Play Anything, reveals that games appeal to us not because they are fun, but because they set limitations. Soccer wouldn't be soccer if it wasn't composed of two teams of eleven players using only their feet, heads, and torsos to get a ball into a goal; Tetris wouldn't be Tetris without falling pieces in characteristic shapes. Such rules seem needless, arbitrary, and difficult. Yet it is the limitations that make games enjoyable, just like it's the hard things in life that give it meaning. Play is what happens when we accept these limitations, narrow our focus, and, consequently, have fun. Which is also how to live a good life. Manipulating a soccer ball into a goal is no different than treating ordinary circumstances- like grocery shopping, lawn mowing, and making PowerPoints-as sources for meaning and joy. We can "play anything" by filling our days with attention and discipline, devotion and love for the world as it really is, beyond our desires and fears. Ranging from Internet culture to moral philosophy, ancient poetry to modern consumerism, Bogost shows us how today's chaotic world can only be tamed-and enjoyed-when we first impose boundaries on ourselves.
| Author | : Summersdale Publishers |
| Publisher | : Vie |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 2024-02-08 |
| Genre | : Self-Help |
| ISBN | : 1837992169 |
Filled with tried and tested techniques, activities and advice, this book is all about celebrating you. Supporting both mind and body, these pages will guide you through mood boosters, confidence builders and self-love strategies. By looking inward, you'll unlock your happiest self and best life - because that's what you deserve!
| Author | : Kristin Hannah |
| Publisher | : Ballantine Books |
| Total Pages | : 433 |
| Release | : 2010-02-16 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0345520807 |
“[Kristin] Hannah is superb at delving into her main characters’ psyches and delineating nuances of feeling.”—The Washington Post Book World Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSaria’s heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her family’s restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angie’s fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman. Angie hires Lauren Ribido because she sees something special in the seventeen-year-old. They quickly form a deep bond, and when Lauren is abandoned by her mother, Angie offers the girl a place to stay. But nothing could have prepared Angie for the far-reaching repercussions of this act of kindness. Together, these two women—one who longs for a child and the other who longs for a mother’s love—will be tested in ways that neither could have imagined. “Enormously entertaining . . . Hannah has a nice ear for dialogue and a knack for getting the reader inside the characters’ heads.”—The Seattle Times
| Author | : Greg Mitchell |
| Publisher | : Charisma Media |
| Total Pages | : 301 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1616381949 |
Twenty-two and unemployed, Dras Weldon is content to hide in the shadow of adolescence with his horror movies and comic books. But when a demonic stranger begins threatening his friends, Dras must choose to act or lose his best friend forever.
| Author | : Barbara Cartland |
| Publisher | : Barbara Cartland EBooks ltd |
| Total Pages | : 150 |
| Release | : 2016-01-09 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1782137939 |
The beautiful Vanessa Shotworth was being made extremely unhappy at the way she was being treated by her stepmother while her beloved father was away in India with his Regiment. When she was late for breakfast because she had been out riding on a lovely summer's morning, she was humiliated by her stepmother by being told to scrub the kitchen floor or she will not be given anything to eat. Vanessa then decided to run away to her relatives in the North of England, having elicited the help of the faithful family butler, Bates. She sets out on her adored horse, Samson, and had not gone far when she stumbled into a group of highwaymen preparing for their evening meal in a wood. Initially she was frightened, but the Chief highwayman, who was well-spoken and who had obviously had a good education, offered to accompany her on her journey North and make sure that she came to no harm. It was when they were near the estate belonging to the Marquis of Westfield that the Chief highwayman told Vanessa that the Marquis was looking for a Governess for his very difficult niece aged twelve, who was impossible to teach and previous Governesses had left in despair after a very short time in the job. How Vanessa secures the position as Governess at Westfield Castle with no references. And how she manages to tame the difficult niece with charm and subtlety and encourages her to ride and dance. And what happens when Vanessa's cruel stepmother eventually catches up with her. And how unexpectedly she finds love in what can only be described as a strange way is all told in this unusual romance by BARBARA CARTLAND.
