Flying Lessons & Other Stories

Flying Lessons & Other Stories
Author: Ellen Oh
Publisher: Yearling
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2018-08-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 110193462X

Whether it is basketball dreams, family fiascos, first crushes, or new neighborhoods, this bold short story collection—written by some of the best children’s authors including Kwame Alexander, Meg Medina, Jacqueline Woodson, and many more and published in partnership with We Need Diverse Books—celebrates the uniqueness and universality in all of us. "Will resonate with any kid who's ever felt different—which is to say, every kid." —Time Great stories take flight in this adventurous middle-grade anthology crafted by ten of the most recognizable and diverse authors writing today. Newbery Medalist Kwame Alexander delivers a story in-verse about a boy who just might have magical powers; National Book Award winner Jacqueline Woodson spins a tale of friendship against all odds; and Meg Medina uses wet paint to color in one girl’s world with a short story that inspired her Newbery award-winner Merci Suárez Changes Gear. Plus, seven more bold voices that bring this collection to new heights with tales that challenge, inspire, and celebrate the unique talents within us all. AUTHORS INCLUDE: Kwame Alexander, Kelly J. Baptist, Soman Chainani, Matt de la Peña, Tim Federle, Grace Lin, Meg Medina, Walter Dean Myers, Tim Tingle, Jacqueline Woodson “There’s plenty of magic in this collection to go around.” —Booklist, Starred “A natural for middle school classrooms and libraries.” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred “Inclusive, authentic, and eminently readable.” —School Library Journal, Starred “Thought provoking and wide-ranging . . . should not be missed.”—Publishers Weekly, Starred “Read more books by these authors.” —The Bulletin, Starred

The Bedquilt and Other Stories

The Bedquilt and Other Stories
Author: Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1997
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780826211408

Two essays and eleven short stories from a 1930s novelist who wrote on a variety of subjects, from war to the lot of the black man. In An American Citizen, a black man leaves America for another country to escape the humiliation he suffers, Through Pity and Terror is a war story set in France on a woman whose home is invaded by German soldiers, and in the title story the protagonist finally wins recognition as an artist.

Teacher Miracles

Teacher Miracles
Author: Brian Thornton
Publisher: Miracles
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781598691351

I'm the Teacher, You're the Student

I'm the Teacher, You're the Student
Author: Patrick Allitt
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0812200403

What is it really like to be a college professor in an American classroom today? An award-winning teacher with over twenty years of experience answers this question by offering an enlightening and entertaining behind-the-scenes view of a typical semester in his American history course. The unique result—part diary, part sustained reflection—recreates both the unstudied realities and intensely satisfying challenges that teachers encounter in university lecture halls. From the initial selection of reading materials through the assignment of final grades to each student, Patrick Allitt reports with keen insight and humor on the rewards and frustrations of teaching students who often are unable to draw a distinction between the words "novel" and "book." Readers get to know members of the class, many of whom thrive while others struggle with assignments, plead for better grades, and weep over failures. Although Allitt finds much to admire in today's students, he laments their frequent lack of preparedness—students who arrive in his classroom without basic writing skills, unpracticed with reading assignments. With sharp wit, a critical eye, and steady sympathy for both educators and students, I'm the Teacher, You're the Student examines issues both large and small, from the ethics of student-teacher relationships to how best to evaluate class participation and grade writing assignments. It offers invaluable guidance to those concerned with the state of higher education today, to young faculty facing the classroom for the first time, and to parents whose children are heading off to college.

At the River and Other Stories for Adult Emergent Readers

At the River and Other Stories for Adult Emergent Readers
Author: Shelley Hale Lee
Publisher: Wayzgoose Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2016-05-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Note: Purchase this file once, and then make legal copies for your students. At the River presents a combination of interactive reading instructional techniques and sound ESL methodology to give low literate students a bridge to mainstream ESL textbooks. Each unit provides structured, scaffolded practice in writing and reading letters, letter combinations, words, sentences, and paragraphs. Clear illustrations reinforce both phonics and vocabulary for everyday situations. This effective, class-tested phonics and reading system enables even ESL teachers with no reading development training to teach nonliterate and semiliterate students how to read in English. A detailed teacher’s guide is available free of charge.

Teachers And Teaching

Teachers And Teaching
Author: Hugh Munby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2004-08-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 113572332X

The intention of this book is to develop an increased awareness of the place of professional practice in the realms of research in teaching. The chapters investigate, from an international perspective, the emerging reflective methods of collaboration between practitioners and researchers, appreciation of teachers and teaching, and greater understanding of what they aim to promote.

Game Changer!

Game Changer!
Author: Donalyn Miller
Publisher: Scholastic Professional
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781338310597

Miller and Sharp provide the game-changing tools and information teachers and administrators need to dramatically increase children's access to and engagement with books.

The Old Child: & Other Stories

The Old Child: & Other Stories
Author: Susan Bernofsky
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2024-05-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0811239039

The Old Child & Other Stories introduces in English one of Germany’s most original and brilliant young authors, Jenny Erpenbeck. Written in spare, highly concentrated language, "a sustained feat of verbal economy" (Die Zeit), the one novella and four stories in The Old Child go beyond the limits of the expected, the real. Dark, serious, often mystical, these marvelous fictions about women’s lives provide glimpses into the minds of outcasts and eccentrics, at the same time bearing out Dostoevsky’s comment that hope can be found so long as a man can see even a tiny view of the sky.

My Teacher is a Monster!

My Teacher is a Monster!
Author: Peter Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2019
Genre: Monsters
ISBN: 9781549127540

"Bobby thinks his teacher, Ms. Kirby, is horrible, but when he sees her outside of school and they spend a day in the park together, he discovers she might not be so bad after all." -- Verso.

A Lover's Potion and Other Stories

A Lover's Potion and Other Stories
Author: Winsome Smith
Publisher: Balboa Press
Total Pages: 141
Release: 2015-01-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1452526494

Short stories are but a slice of life, yet they are complete, even in few words. Although the endings are not always happy, they are indeed endings. These slices of life take us to many times and places, where we meet people with a distinct set of problems-and sometimes, if they are very lucky, solutions. A Lover's Potion is an imaginative walk through fantasy and fiction. In these collected stories, we visit a small shire where witchcraft mania runs wild. A peasant girl becomes pregnant with her aristocratic lover, who presents her with a gift of jewellery, confounding a team of modern archaeologists. There is even a girl with incredibly long hair, locked in a tower, but she is not what she seems. Each story focuses on people and their fascination with one another. All human beings share desires, endeavors, and loyalties. Through actions, we reveal ourselves. The characters in these stories each long for something-and in some cases, the characters aren't human at all. Read of compassion, romance, and revenge in this riveting collection of wiles and whimsy.