Teaching Biography To Elementary Students
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Scholastic Easy Reader Biographies: 12 Biographies That Help Students Learn to Read and Comprehend Key Features of Nonfiction (Easy Reader Biographies) $56.61 Introduce key features of nonfiction with 12 easy-to-read biographies of must-know, inspiring Americans. Designed for young readers, these engaging 16-page books feature lively text, captions, realistic illustrations, glossaries, diagrams, and more. The t… |
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32 Third Graders and One Class Bunny: Life Lessons from Teaching $13.99 Phillip Done fixes staplers that won’t staple, zippers that won’t zip, and pokes pins in the caps of glue bottles that will not pour. He has sung “Happy Birthday” 657 times. A witness to the joys of discovery, Done inspires readers with the everyday adventures and milestones of his 32 third graders in this irresistible collection of bite-sized essays. From the nervous first day of school to the h… |
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Dream Not of Other Worlds: Teaching in a Segregated Elementary School,1970 (Sightline Books) $7.98 When Huston Diehl began teaching a fourth-grade class in a “Negro” elementary school in rural Louisa County, Virginia, the school’s white superintendent assured her that he didn’t expect her to teach “those children” anything. She soon discovered how these low expectations, widely shared by the white community, impeded her students’ ability to learn. With its overcrowded classrooms, poorly … |
