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Tree or Three? Student’s Book and Audio CD: An Elementary Pronunciation Course
$61.80Enjoyable pronunciation practice of English sounds, word stress and intonation for beginner-level students. Now in full colour and with updated artwork, this revised edition of Tree or Three? retains its simplicity and straightforward syllabus. The emphasis on minimal pairs, which made the original edition so popular, makes pronunciation practice light-hearted and accessible. * Clear rubrics for exercises with answer key and improved navigation make the material even more user-friendly. * Each unit offers comprehensive practice of sounds, with additional work on stress and intonation. * The accompanying audio CDs give lots of listening and pronunciation practice. This pack contains the second edition of Tree or Three? and a set of 3 audio CDs.
ISBN: 978-0521685276
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Ship or Sheep? Book and Audio CD Pack: An Intermediate Pronunciation Course
$69.80This is a revised and updated edition of the classic pronunciation title Ship or Sheep? This new edition of Ship or Sheep?, an accessible intermediate-level pronunciation course in full colour for students of English, provides systematic practice of English pronunciation, with an emphasis on minimal pairs, through a wide variety of interesting exercises and activities. The course is suitable for classroom use or for self-study. This pack contains the 3rd edition of Ship or Sheep? and a set of 4 audio CDs.
ISBN: 978-0521606738
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Improving Student Achievement: 50 More Research-Based Strategies for Educators
$67.90All educators need to have this practical resource at their fingertips. Share what we know works in teaching school using these summaries of 50 high-impact, valuable methods, strategies, and ideas. Use this book and CD to support best practices in your school, and then watch test scores soar and drop out rates decrease.
- Filled with summaries of research on actual practices, which will positively impact student achievement.
- Use the CD of multimedia presentations to present the research in staff development settings or with parents and community members.
- Each summary will be a two-page spread that includes the issue, bullets synthesizing current research related to the issue, implications for practice, and questions that can be used for discussion in staff meetings.
Summaries of research on actual practices which impact student achievement fill this book. These short summaries of the research state the issue along with the practical actions, strategies and tips any educator can use to improve student learning. This is the Swiss Army knife of school improvement and a tremendous resource for school improvement efforts!
ISBN: 978-1586832902
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Your Education Research Project Handbook
$69.90This concise and accessible text is designed to prepare novice researchers in the planning, implementation, evaluation and writing-up of a small-scale research project, from first idea to finished product. Assuming no prior research experience, this text will provide the support and guidance needed to begin writing a research project or dissertation in Education. The nature of research will be introduced, followed by advice on formulating a manageable set of objectives, selecting an appropriate research strategy and evaluating data. The fictional case study running throughout the book and conversational style help provide the simple, honest information that any student needs before undertaking a small-scale research project. This readable introduction will help students de-mystify the basics of writing a research project.
ISBN: 978-1408221242
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Background Knowledge: The Missing Piece of the Comprehension Puzzle
$42.90“Background knowledge is too often neglected in our push to raise test scores, despite the fact that we know background knowledge is a critical component of comprehension. Background knowledge simply has to become an instructional focus if we want to help students make sense of school. We will lose a generation of learners if we don’t act now.”
-Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey
Why background knowledge?
- Because the Grapes of Wrath is dry reading if students don’t know about the Dust Bowl.
- Because the Boston Tea Party is a non-event if students don’t know loyalists from patriots.
- Because knowing a triangle has 180 degrees isn’t the same as knowing why.
Because content-area comprehension depends on it, you and your students need Background Knowledge.
Douglas Fisher and Nancy Frey help you develop lasting subject-area understanding with ideas for modeling, guided practice, productive group work, and independent work that effectively engage adolescents. You’ll learn to:
- distinguish incidental knowledge from core background knowledge
- check students’ understanding prior to a unit with tools such as opinionnaires, interest surveys, and anticipation guides
- model how to activate and apply prior knowledge so kids can wrestle with new content
- build up students’ background knowledge through virtual fieldtrips, YouTube, guest experts, and more
- provide collaborative ways for students to develop expertise, show what they know, and own their learning.
Doug and Nancy also build your background knowledge with multimedia book-study resources at www.heinemann.com/backgroundknowledge.
“As teachers our job is not to simply fill students’ heads with facts,” write Doug Fisher and Nancy Frey. “We need to have students manipulate and apply information so that it becomes a permanent understanding.” That’s why the time is now for Background Knowledge.
ISBN: 978-0325026558
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High-Impact Teaching Strategies for the ‘XYZ’ Era of Education
$56.50In today’s classrooms, the teacher/student divide isn’t just generational – it is digital. Exposure to digital technology from birth hard-wires the human brain to learn differently. For 21st Century learners, traditional ‘chalk and talk’ instruction belongs to a bygone era. Instead, these students need interactive teaching strategies. This book offers 26 proven, interactive strategies to help teachers improve academic results, student engagement and classroom behavior. Importantly, while replicating many features of the digital environment, none of the strategies rely on technology. They require little or no extra budget and reduce wasted effort on the part of the teacher by actively involving students in the learning process. Ignite student learning and enhance your instruction!
ISBN: 978-0137144266
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Principles of Language Learning and Teaching (5th Edition)
$42.50Principles of Language Learning and Teaching, Fifth Edition, by H. Douglas Brown, is the classic second language acquisition text used by teacher education programs worldwide. Principles introduces key concepts through definitions of terms, thought-provoking questions, charts, and spiraling. New Classroom Connections encourage students to consider the implications of research for classroom pedagogy. An up-to-date bibliography and new glossary provide quick access to important works and key terminology in the field. The fifth edition takes a comprehensive look at foundations of language teaching through discussions of the latest research in the field, including: * Vygotsky’s and Bakhtin’s theories * Thorndike’s law of effect * error treatment, noticing, recasts * intercultural communication * language policy and politics * corpus linguistics *hot topics in SLA * connectionism and emergentism * flow theory, willingness to communicate * strategies-based instruction * contrastive rhetoric * attribution theory, self-efficacy * output hypothesis Also by H.Douglas Brown: Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy Language Assessment: Principles and Classroom Practices Strategies for Success: A Practical Guide to Learning English
ISBN: 978-0131991286
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Fast Forward Level 23: Lizzie’s Hidden Message
$8.90‘My most valuable treasure is something from just before the civil War,’ said Gran. ‘It’s in the chest in the attic…’
ISBN: 9780170126960
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Fast Forward Level 23: Bruno’s Tea
$8.90I loaded up my bicycle with Mr Green’s shopping. His order always included three packets of tea. How Mr Green could drink that much tea each week was a mystery to me…
ISBN: 9780170126946
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Fast Forward Level 22: Nico’s List
$8.90Nico’s sister Maria loves the Sci-fi Zombies. So, when Nico wins tickets to their concert, he knows just how to talk her into doing his chores!
ISBN: 9780170126847
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Fast Forward Level 22: Mudslide
$8.90Jessica sat at the kitchen table and gazed out the window.
ISBN: 9780170126830
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Fast Forward Level 22: I Wish
$8.90Pele, Ron and Pete moaned as they walked to school. ‘I hate school.’ moaned Pete. ‘Dudes, school is like a bad smell,’ said Pete.
ISBN: 9780170126823
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