Richard Beach: 14 books
Literacy Tools in the Classroom
Teaching Through Critical Inquiry, Grades 5-12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This innovative resource describes how teachers can help students employ “literacy tools” across the curriculum to foster learning. The authors demonstrate how literacy tools such as narratives, question-asking, spoken-word poetry, drama, writing, digital communication, images, and video...
by Richard Beach, Faythe Beauchemin
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2019
This book explores English language arts instruction from the perspective of language as "social actions" that students and teachers enact with and toward one another to create supportive, trusting relations between students and teachers, and among students as peers. Departing from a code-based...
by Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Bob Fecho
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. It underscores the value of providing students with a range of different critical approaches and tools for interpreting texts and the need to...
Teaching to Exceed the English Language Arts Common Core State Standards
A Critical Inquiry Approach for 6-12 Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2015
Timely, thoughtful, and comprehensive, this text directly supports pre-service and in-service teachers in developing curriculum and instruction that both addresses and exceeds the requirements of the Common Core State Standards. Adopting a critical inquiry approach, it demonstrates how the Standards’...
by Nandu Thalange, MRCP, MRCPCH
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
The perfect portable companion for trainees and medical students on clinical placements in paediatrics.
New to this edition:
Two new editors
Thoroughly updated and revised throughout
Key features:
Part of the Kumar & Clark family of revision titles
Cases throughout
Key...
Using Apps for Learning Across the Curriculum
A Literacy-Based Framework and Guide
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
How can apps be used to foster learning with literacy across the curriculum? This book offers both a theoretical framework for considering app affordances and practical ways to use apps to build students’ disciplinary literacies and to foster a wide range of literacy practices.
Using Apps...
Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents
Reading, Writing, and Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2017
CO-PUBLISHED BY ROUTLEDGE AND THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH Teaching Climate Change to Adolescents is THE essential resource for middle and high school English language arts teachers to help their students understand and address the urgent issues and challenges facing life on Earth today....
Identity-Focused ELA Teaching
A Curriculum Framework for Diverse Learners and Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
Countering the increased standardization of English language arts instruction requires recognizing and fostering students’ unique identity construction across different social and cultural contexts. Drawing on current sociocultural theories of identity construction, this book posits that students...
Put ‘Em in Coach
Primer for Youth Coaches and Parents of Youth Athletes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
I grew up in Washington, DC, in the public housing system. The most positive influences in helping to keep me on the right path were the Police Boys Club and DC Rec Department. Ive always felt it was important to give to young children what was given to me in my youth.
Understanding and Creating Digital Texts
An Activity-Based Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Given the increased use of digital reading and writing tools in the classroom, this book provides secondary and college English language arts teachers with activities and classroom examples for using a range of different digital tools—blogs, wikis, websites, annotations, Twitter, mapping, forum...
West Palm Beach
1893 to 1950
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2006
West Palm Beach was established in 1894, two decades after pioneers first arrived in the wilderness at Lake Worth. In 1893, Henry M. Flagler, Standard Oil magnate and Florida railroad mogul, finalized plans to extend his Florida East Coast Railroad south in order to turn Palm Beach into a winter playground...
by Richard A. Marconi, Debi Murray, Historical Society of Palm Beach County
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2009
Palm Beach is known internationally as a winter resort where the wealthy enjoy life in a tropical paradise. More than 100 years ago, Palm Beach was far different from its well-kept beaches, estates, and fabulous Worth Avenue shopping mecca of the 21st century. When the first permanent settlers arrived,...
Zones of Control
Perspectives on Wargaming
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Examinations of wargaming for entertainment, education, and military planning, in terms of design, critical analysis, and historical contexts.
Games with military themes date back to antiquity, and yet they are curiously neglected in much of the academic and trade literature on games and game...
Genetic Influences on Addiction
An Intermediate Phenotype Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
A comprehensive review of research examining intermediary mechanisms to understand the link between genetic variation and addiction liability.
Although there is scientific consensus that genetic factors play a substantial role in an individual's vulnerability to drug or alcohol addiction, specific...