Subjects:  1. Children: Grades 4-6    2. Foreign Language Study - English as a Second Language    3. Juvenile General And Reference Works    4. Juvenile Nonfiction    5. Reference - Dictionaries    6. English language - Dictionaries - Juvenile literature    7. Juvenile Nonfiction / Reference / Dictionaries    8. Picture dictionaries, English - Juvenile literature   

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Easy to Understand
I found this book to be written in a way that is very easy to comprehend, and expresses the ideas clearly.The chapters are short and concise. This book is a great tool to use not only for classes, but to refer to in the future.

You cannot go wrong...
I have a son with autism, a wife who is a psychologist and I run a home ABA program as well as helping in my son's pre-school that is instituting an ABA progam.You cannot go wrong with this book.The fact that this book is in it's 8th edition and is used by many college programs speaks to it's strengths.I did read the one dissenting review where it lowered someone's GPA because they did not understand or test well on the material.ABA is deceptive.While it is the just the science of good learning there is a lot of skill and aptitude needed.Being a member of T.O.P.S., Intertel, Mensa, the International High IQ society to name a few I can see that this is not for everyone.Some people are good at being students, some people are good at understanding and implementing good science; with ABA you need to be in the latter group.If you want a good starting/comprehensive book with a lot of meat on the bone this is the one.

Easy to use, but terribly REDUNDANT!
As a psychology student, I encounted this book in a behavioral modification course.I was not overly impressed by it, but it does have it's usefulness.
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Subjects:  1. Behavior modification    2. Movements - Behaviorism    3. Personality    4. Psychology    5. Behavioural studies    6. Behavioural theory (Behaviourism)    7. Philosophy & psychology    8. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

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An Essential Read for All High School Teachers
I read this book as a part of a Graduate level course in education I am taking at Rutgers University; the very University its author Michael Smith (who co-wrote with Jeffrey Wilhelm) once taught at. I found this book indispensible in its informative snapshots of high school boys from different backgrounds. It is clear that the language arts do not suffer from irrelevance for boys but perhaps from being taught in such a way that does not connect the texts with the boys' existing literary knowledge. After reading this book, you will learn that there are many ways to engage boys in the teaching of the language arts. I highly recommend this book. It is one of the top five best educational books I have read so far. Exceptional!

We'refailing our boys by ignoring their interests
I heard about this book on Amazon, and quickly picked it up. As a teacher of middle school English learners who will soon be transitioning to mainstream classes, I have had many battles with students, especially boys, who hate to read. At the beginning of the year, I have my students complete this statement on a piece of paper: "When I read, I feel....".From the boys, I've gotten such responses as "bored", "tired", "sleepy", and, strangely enough, "hungry".The reality is, our male students are falling through the cracks because they are not engaged with the texts.If students aren't engaged by "Death of a Salesman" or "The Scarlet Letter", then why do we still force them to read these books?One solution to solving the problem of low literacy skills among boys would be to allow more book choices.Literature circles are great, because they give students a choice. If one circle is reading "Lord of the Flies" and doesn't want to read it, then he could get in the group that's reading the book he wants to read."Reading Don't Fix No Chevys" is an insightful, well-researched book that I have been recommending to all my fellow Language Arts and ESL/ELD teachers. Bravo!

Brilliant and Inspiring for Any Teacher of Language Arts
This book significantly changed the way I, as a teacher of Language Arts, think about what we do in secondary classrooms every day. Without ever being strident or laying blame, the authors methodically, movingly demonstrate that in so many ways, most middle schools and high schools are still far off the mark in how they teach English. And yet, the answer is right there--all we have to do is listen to the kids.Read more

Subjects:  1. Attitudes    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Language arts (Secondary)    5. Students & Student Life    6. Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts    7. Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading    8. Teenage boys    9. United States    10. English    11. English (ie as school subject)    12. Literacy    13. Teaching of a specific subject   

Editorial Review

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Disappointing...
I purcjased this dictionary for my daughter last year when she was in first grade.It does not have basic words such as "Christmas", "decorate", "build".We are ordering a different children's dictionary tonight, and hope to have better luck!The photos are nice, but there are too few words and watered down definitions...

Scholatic First Dictionary
Teaching my child to read has been a great experience. To teach him to look up the meaning of new words has become a fun time activity.This bookis essential for faimlies with school age children. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 4-8 - Reference    2. Children: Grades 3-4    3. Dictionaries, Juvenile    4. English language    5. Juvenile English Language    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Reference - Dictionaries    8. Juvenile Nonfiction / Reference / Dictionaries   

Subjects:  1. Education    2. Education / Teaching    3. Elementary    4. Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading    5. Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading    6. English    7. English language    8. Primary / junior schools   

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You will be absorbed into the story
This really is "The Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark" and not only the Prince but his family. Not only his family but his friends. Not only his friends but all though that came before him and is told to those that came after him.
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Subjects:  1. Death    2. Denmark    3. Drama    4. Fathers    5. Hamlet (Legendary character)    6. Juvenile drama    7. Plays    8. Plays / Drama    9. Princes    10. Shakespeare    11. Drama / Shakespeare    12. English    13. Hamlet    14. Language & Literature    15. Shakespeare plays, texts    16. Shakespeare studies & criticism    17. Shakespeare, William   

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Marvelous Bio. About the Creator of American Sign Language
Born in 1787, young Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet was unlike other children his age, for he possessed a condition that made it hard for him to have fun and play with the other kids. His eyes were always watering, and his chest was always aching when he overexerted himself, so he was used to being left behind. However, this, in turn, helped Thomas with his studies, and got him accepted into Yale College at the age of fourteen. Thomas loved learning, and made a pact with himself that he would change the world in some way, he just didn't know how. That is, until he met Alice Cogswell, a deaf girl who couldn't communicate with the other children her age. Thomas soon headed to Europe to learn all about sign language, and brought it back to America, where he developed American Sign Language, and taught many children how to communicate with the outside world, and leave their isolation behind. This is his story.
A World of Knowing:A Story About Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet
This is a very informative book about an interesting man with an interesting story!!!

it was terrible
I think it is was a stupid book!! ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Biography    2. Biography & Autobiography - Historical    3. Biography/Autobiography    4. Children's Books/Ages 4-8 Nonfiction    5. Juvenile literature    6. School & Education    7. Teachers    8. Teachers of the deaf    9. United States   

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MYBOOK
I THINK I WANT TO BE A FASHION DESIGNER IS A GREAT BOOK TO READ SO THAT I CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT DESIGNING.I CANT WAIT TO READ IT AGAIN. I LEARNED TO NEVER GIVE UP ON AN IDEA.YOU WILL NEVER KNOW IF YOU WILL MAKE IT OR NOT IF YOU DON'T TRY.I LEARNED MANNEQUINS ARE FOR CLOTHING THAT I DESIGN.IF THERE IS A MISTAKE ON THE DRESS, IT IS A PRACTICE DRESS.IF I MAKE IT RIGHT THE NEXT TIME, IT IS A DRESS THAT I WILL BE ABLE TO DESIGN FOR MANY MANY TIMES.

Really nice book!
This is a really nice book.Lots of glossy color photos of star designers add to the enjoyment of reading this book.It's great for little or big girls interested in fashion.I especially liked the story of the little girl who made up a new kind of mitten.She's been very successful with her efforts.It shows that not everyone has to go to design school to be a success in the field.

great color pictures
This book is a great way to see how fashion works and all the things that is in the job the pictures are great if youre thinking about being a fashion designer than you need to buy this ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art - Fashion    2. Careers    3. Children's 9-12 - Careers    4. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    5. Children: Grades 3-4    6. Fashion design    7. Fashion designers    8. Juvenile literature    9. Vocational guidance    10. Juvenile Nonfiction / School & Education   

Subjects:  1. Child Development    2. Developmental - Child    3. General    4. Psychology    5. Philosophy & psychology    6. Psychology & Psychiatry / General   

Subjects:  1. Allied Health Services - General    2. Education    3. Education / Teaching    4. Elementary    5. Language acquisition    6. Language arts (Early childhood    7. Language arts (Early childhood)    8. Literacy    9. Parent participation    10. Preschool & Kindergarten    11. Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts    12. Child & developmental psychology    13. Education / Elementary    14. Language & Literature    15. Pre-school & kindergarten    16. Primary / junior schools   

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wish i had this when I was young
Clear, concise explanation of our financial systems. Great tool to introduce kids to having control over their resoures.

This book is helpful and useful
Let me explain to everyone who says otherwise, the point of this book was NOT to make children think that stock marketing was the only way to get money. No, the book was just trying to teach children about stock marketing so they could understand it and could possibly use it no or when they get older. I think the book had great details and explained the stock market very accurately.

A superior and highly recommended introductory guide
Gail Karlitz's Growing Money: A Complete Investing Guide For Kids is an exceptional investing guide in that it is written specifically to teach children (and adults!) how to make their money work for them. Covering savings in a bank, bods, stocks, and how to read the financial pages, Growing Money is a superb guide - and since it's written simply enough for a young person to learn from, it also makes excellent starter reading for adults who have never dabbled in investing before. The prose text is in large type and very straightforward, but does not talk down to the reader. Growing Money is a superior and highly recommended introductory guide, especially for the young people growing up in this brand new era of electronically transmitted investment capital. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    2. Children: Grades 4-6    3. General    4. Investments    5. Investments & Securities - General    6. Juvenile Fiction    7. Juvenile literature    8. Saving and investment    9. Juvenile Nonfiction / Business & Economics   

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Just what I needed
I could not expect anything more from a thesauras.This has all the words I, through my preteen years, have needed, without boggling my mind with lots of words that I never try to use.I don't feel overwhelmed, but I DO find the information I need.

How can I describe this Thesaurus
This thesaurus is: Elementary Teacher Prizes This Book!
_The_Clear_and_Simple_Thesaurus_Dictionary is the most practical thesaurus I have found for use with my fourth- and fifth-grade students. Unlike many thesauruses, it is formatted in a style that students (and adults!) willfind familiar and easy to use. While not as comprehensive in scope as thosedesigned for college use, this thesaurus allows students the satisfactionof finding synonyms or associated words for almost any word they mightneed. I had not found this to be true of other "beginning"thesauruses, which was a frustration to both my students and to me. Thisgem was a major find, and is now in regular use in my classroom. I highlyrecommend it to any teacher of intermediate or junior high age students, aswell as to parents who want a truly helpful resource for their school-agechildren. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's 9-12 - Science    2. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    3. Children: Grades 4-6    4. Dictionaries    5. Dictionaries, Juvenile    6. English language    7. Juvenile General And Reference Works    8. Juvenile Nonfiction    9. Life Sciences - Zoology - General    10. Reference - Dictionaries    11. Reference - Thesauri    12. Synonyms and antonyms    13. Juvenile Nonfiction / Concepts / General   

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Great book
This is an excellent book for girls who don't have an older sibling that could tell them about their experience through puberty. It is also great for teens entering middle school. During elementary school, there arent many cliques around but in middle school, you'll see cliques EVERYWHERE,and I mean everywhere. this book will teache the child how to deal with the attitudes of the people in the clique, and not to be ashamed of who they are.

Cute for those under 15
This book is extremely cute-for those under the age of 15. I bought this book when I was 12 and I'm 17 now. Some of the things have stuck with me. Like how to find your power stance and how to plunge a toliet (don't ask). But as I look through it now there's alot of things that seem like they will be good advice but are just obvious. Almost ever section and topic is very blunt and striaght forward. Like the "Be in Charge of Your Financial Life" is quite obvious with the five steps as 1. Earn More 2. Spend Less 3. Save Sufficiently 4. Invest Wisely and 5. Give Generously. And that was as about as indebth as you get. So overall it really didn't grab my attention and bored me.

My Mistake
I was hoping, without going to a bookstore and completely looking through it, that this would be a benficial book for my 13 year old.Instead it put her in tears.Instead of accepting themselves as who they are and how they look, they bring kids to the conclusion that they cannot be OK if they break out.My daughter was very upset and all I could do was apologize.If you are looking for a book that wants to compress your daughter into the current fashions and mainstream, maybe this is for you, then again, I strongly believe that my daughter is special and that this has not helped her self-confidence or her understanding of all the changes happening.Personally, I do not want my daughter caught up in all of the latest makeup and dress, I want her to be able to wear what she is comfortable in and feel comfortable in her own skin.Next time I will review any books I get for her much closer. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Young Adult Social Situations    2. Children: Grades 4-6    3. Girls    4. Girls & Women    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Life skills    7. Life skills guides    8. Reference - General    9. Social Issues - Adolescence    10. Social Issues - General    11. Teenage girls    12. Teenagers    13. Juvenile Nonfiction / Social Situations / Adolescence    14. Personal appearance & beauty    15. Personal issues    16. Children's 12-Up   

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More emphasis need on education, being formal or financial
The author, while he does suggest education is important, does not stress it - he suggests advanced education is important only if you are entering into a professional career.(Read the introduction to see what I mean) - You may want to speak to the your children on that, I felt a bit uncomfortable knowing that's what my chilren would be reading.
Still worth reading...offers good teen-friendly advice on achieving a financial headstart & freedom!
Despite the controversy surrounding the author, Robert Kiyosaki, I strongly feel that this particular book is still worth reading by teens, as it offers good teen-friendly advice on achieving financial headstart & freedom.
Great for teaching teens the basics
This is a great book for kids. While they're learning nonsense in school, you can teach them the basics of making money and investing - something that will help them for life. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art - General    2. Business & Economics    3. Children's Books/Young Adult Misc. Nonfiction    4. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 10-12)    5. Economics And Business (Young Adult)    6. Entrepreneurship    7. Finance, Personal    8. Investments    9. Juvenile Nonfiction    10. Juvenile literature    11. Wealth    12. Business & Economics / Personal Finance / General    13. Money & finance   

Editorial Review

Ages 8-12. Fans of Harriet the Spy who want to try keeping their own writer's notebook will appreciate this inspiring handbook. Written in a direct, non-condescending style, writer-to-writer, it offers realistic, experienced advice on how to keep notes and use them to create stories and poems. Fletcher, author of the ALA Notable children's book Fig Pudding, fleshes the book out with numerous examples from his own notebooks and from those of other writers, child and adult. ... Read more

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I Teach My Creative Writing Students with this Book
I was introduced to Ralph Fletcher's A Writer's Notebook this during the Coastal Area Writing Project, Coastal Carolina University, Janet Files. This "project" is an intensive, 4 week writing "submersion" for teachers.We learn how to teach our students how to write. Really write.Not how to write an essay for test, but to write descriptively and passionately.
Thoughts and exercises for Writers' Notebooks
This is a small 133 page paperback book that is loaded with ideas for using notebooks to improve your or your student's writing. There are interesting comments from other writers as well as from the author, Ralph Fletcher, noted author of writing books.
our "other writing teacher"
I teach second and third grade, and I use this and Ralph Fletcher's other books in this series, regularly in my classroom.I read parts of them out loud to my students, then we discuss how we can use Fletcher's ideas in our own writing. Fletcher writes to his young audience with a great deal of respect.He addresses them as authors in a way that both makes them believe that they really ARE authors, and also gives them the tools to really BE authors.Read more

Subjects:  1. Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction    2. Children: Grades 3-4    3. Composition and exercises    4. Creative writing    5. English language    6. Juvenile Nonfiction    7. Juvenile literature    8. Language Arts - Composition & Creative Writing    9. Notebooks    10. Reference - General    11. Juvenile Nonfiction / Language Arts / Composition & Creative Writing   

Subjects:  1. Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)    2. Juvenile Nonfiction    3. Language Arts - General   

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I was expecting more...and I'm a native Spanish speaker
I own the Russian Grammar of this series and I absolutely love that book. I bought this one for helping my fiance to learn my language (I live in Santiago, Chile) expecting to get a very good grammar book.I was very dissapointed when I flipped through the pages, although they cover mostly all the notions of spanish grammar I found that the explanations weren't deep enough on some complicated parts of grammar, specially some verbs and usage of personal pronouns like "lo, le, les". I know how to speak my language of course, but if you ask me "why is this like this way and not like this?" I would have some trouble explaining some things and was the reson why I bought this. I guess it's ok for someone just beggining with the study of Spanish but I believe it leaves too many things unclear making necessary to buy a better researched book if you want too deepen your understanding of Spanih grammar.

An excellent Spanish resource
This is a really great Spanish book for students of beginning, intermediate, and early advanced Spanish. For advanced students in Spanish 4, AP Spanish, and beyond, this book will serve as a very valuable review book. This book, though, may not be for everyone and is definitely not all-purpose.
Depends on what you're looking for
To be fair, I was looking for a book to help me with conversational Spanish.This book seems geared more for passing a school course than for learning some quick and useful conversational Spanish.I was looking for a fun way to learn. This is not it. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Foreign Language - Dictionaries / Phrase Books    2. Grammar    3. Language    4. Language Arts & Disciplines    5. Spanish    6. Spanish language    7. Translating & Interpreting    8. Foreign Language Study / Spanish    9. Grammar & vocabulary    10. Grammar, syntax, linguistic structure    11. Modern languages: grammar   

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Excellent, But Possibly Overwhelming for the Beginner
This set is an excellent place for a child who has already been exposed to the French language to begin.However, if your child has never been exposed to French (and you do not speak it yourself), the pace of instruction might be a bit overwhelming because some pretty difficult vocabulary is introduced very early in the program.
Best foreign language program for YOUNG children I've seen.
I teach preschool children French in my home and have not seen an easier method for children who do not yet read.Though designed for beginning readers it is easily adapted to non-readers. Parents who do not speak thelanguage can learn along with their child.The program comes with anactivity book children can draw, color and cut in, along with 3 cassettes. Two cassettes are the lesson plans (1-10), and the third is aninstructional guide for parents. Slightly disappointing
I was surprised to find out that this book doesn't really come with a cassette for the kids to listen to.I talked with some customer service people and found that there may be quite a few different versions of thisbook, and unfortunatly not all of these versions are currently available. But other than that this book is still a pretty good french instructor foryoung children. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Audio: Juvenile    2. Children's Audio - 4-8    3. Children: Grades 2-3    4. Foreign Language Study - French    5. Juvenile Nonfiction    6. Language Arts - General    7. French    8. Juvenile Nonfiction / Foreign Language Study    9. Modern language learning material    10. Modern languages: audio-visual & multimedia   

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She needs to practice what she preaches
Spandel has done her homework and has used the trait system extensively in her classroom, which gives her much credibility. However, a well-organized reference book puts all the information about one topic in one place. Unfortunately, information about each of the traits is scattered around the book, making it extremely annoying. I'm sure she could have done better, and we all hope a new edition will prove she can even use the trait of organization herself. Let's practice what we preach.

Need help with 6-Traits Writing?-
Do you ever wonder how to score writing samples from the students in your classroom?This is the book for you!Actual writing samples are presented and evaluated.Ideas for lessons are also included.This is a must-have resource for those teaching the 6-traits of writing !

Beyond test taking, create life-long writers with voices!
Once again,in her fourth and finest revision of Creating Writers, Vicki shows us how to create more effective,independent writers.Using volumes of practice papers, scores of focused, creative trait lessons, and visits into trait-and-process based classrooms, Creating Writers helps all teachers envision how to design our own instruction models to defeat test anxiety!
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Subjects:  1. Composition & Creative Writing - General    2. Composition and exercises    3. Education    4. Education / Teaching    5. Elementary    6. Elementary School Language Arts    7. English Composition    8. English language    9. Language    10. Language arts (Primary)    11. Study and teaching (Primary)    12. Teaching Methods & Materials - Language Arts    13. Education / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading    14. English    15. English language: writing skills    16. Teaching of a specific subject   

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Best Writing Resource Out There!
While I've been teaching for many years, there is rarely a source I can use without reinventing it almost completely to meet my needs.This is not the case with Teaching Qualities of Writing.It is fantastic!!!I purchased the book and the CD with lessons.It is fantastic!The various writing lessons are taught in a spiral fashion building on the other qualities.They all fit in perfectly with the six trait writing my district is focused on this year.Many of the ideas I have used for years but Portalupi and Fletcher have added a new level, a new resource and books sources for many of my lessons.
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Subjects:  1. Composition (Language arts)    2. Creative writing (Elementary education)    3. Education / Teaching    4. Elementary    5. Language    6. Language Arts & Disciplines    7. Notebooks    8. Reference    9. Study and teaching    10. English    11. English language: writing skills    12. Teaching of a specific subject