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Not your typical how-to manual for new teachers, this jargon-free guide offers a wide variety of tools and tactics for getting through every school day with grace and sanity. Covered in glue, glitter, orange juice -- or worse? Make a quick change into the spare set of clothes you keep on hand for just this purpose. Butterflies in your stomach before your first-ever Meet the Teacher Night? Keep your cool by writing the agenda on your board --...
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Paula Lillard, director of a Montessori school ranging in age from eighteen months to fifteen years, provides a clear and cogent introduction to the Montessori program for the elementary and later years. In detailed accounts, Lillard shows how children acquire the skills to answer their own questions, learn to manage freedom with responsibility, and maintain a high level of intellectual stimulation by using the Montessori method. This is an essential...
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In the world today, it is not easy for kids to find the empowerment and confidence needed to overcome major obstacles. This is obvious by the consistent loss of life through suicide, drug abuse, and gang violence at every age level, in every state, of every country ... These negative influences, along with many other forms of negative expression, have become a normal choice for kids to depend on through adversity. The busier people become as adults,...
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This book relates to issues that many children deal with daily. This unique children's book is about a child who wants to do good but has a difficult time following through with commitments and promises. There are many excuses he gives for his actions. This book is an eye-opener for other children who make pure choices but can eventually do the right thing. This book gives so many life's lessons; it's humorous and will provide lots of smiles. This...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
The frog is sitting at the bottom of the pond, doing nothing. But other animals keep coming after him and he has to hop...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
Explore the extraordinary world of water bears, tiny animals that you can find all around but only see with a microscope....
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-7 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
Some wheels are big and some wheels are small. This exciting book is full of photos of all kinds of wheels, from skateboards...
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You were born into this world to live your own life story. No other person on earth is exactly the same as you. You were given your own special body and mind to achieve something great in life. Every important decision that you make along the way is how your own life story will be written. In this book, you will learn how to use the secret fruit of wisdom in every area of your life. This secret fruit of wisdom will give you everything you need for...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
Follow a group of children as they climb to the top of a hill and race each other to the bottom by rolling in this fun...
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Little Melly thought her head looked too big-very big, perhaps, too big. So she did her best to cover it with hats and bows and scarves so no one would notice. For she was certain, quite certain, that people would stare if they could see just how very big it was.
What she couldn't see was all the wonderful parts of her brain that were working to make her who she was: a person who hated doing chores.
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
Mona the goat's brother is good at jumping. Mona's sister is good at leaping. Mona is good at growing sunflowers. But...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-7 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
Tec the detective has found a hole in the ground - but who dug it? Children will love following Tec as he trails his suspects,...
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Teaching can be difficult on a good day. The demands are great and appear to be getting greater as the needs of students in a changing society become evident in the classroom. Not long ago, a teacher's biggest problem was trying to get students to listen and learn. Behavior issues were primarily those of disrespect and fighting. Today, a teacher's biggest concern is not just students listening and learning, and the behavior concerns are not just disrespect...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
Mojo and Weeza are back, and they are looking smart! But how long will they stay that way...? Find out in this comic follow-up...
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What a kettle of fish! Kit Katydid, a kimono-wearing kangaroo, finds a kaleidoscope lost by kiddo Klaus Kirby at the zoo. Can Klaus get it back without the kangaroo kicking up a fuss? See how Kit Katydid's love of beauty causes him to collect treasures. Watch how a kaleidoscope brings drama and wonder into the lives of Kit Katydid and Klaus Kirby. Will a trip to the zoo end up in a knockdown fight for the kaleidoscope? This is the perfect book for...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-7 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
This non-fiction book explores the different types of fruit the children like to eat, with mouth-watering photographs of...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
Julia Donaldson tells the tale of the misfortunate characters Bonny and Sandy, who are forever arguing. One day a little...
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.
This little bird may be small, but it's very helpful to bigger animals. This photographic non-fiction book shows how the...
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