Skills category: 6777 books
The Pocket Outdoor Survival Guide
The Ultimate Guide for Short-Term Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
Contains techniques for short-term survival in the outdoors
Small enough to fit easily into a pack
Useful for anyone who spends time outside
Are you planning a trip to the wild and great outdoors? Have you wondered how you would survive if the trip became dangerous? If you answered yes to either...
Prepper's Survival Navigation
Find Your Way with Map and Compass as well as Stars, Mountains, Rivers and other Wilderness Signs
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
An easy-to-understand primer on time-tested navigation techniques that work when your GPS fails
When disaster strikes and your GPS is useless, ancient navigation techniques will ensure your survival. With this book, you can easily travel through even the farthest, remotest places. Utilizing tips from...
Total Redneck Manual
221 Ways to Live Large
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Do you keep a few favorite squirrel recipes committed to memory? Know by heart the way to the best deer stand on Grandpa's 20-acre farm? Have an old tractor rusting in the back field, because you just might need the parts one day? You're not alone. So do the authors of The Total Redneck Manual. Whether...
by William Roulston and Sidney Turner
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2011
A veteran elementary school teacher teamed up with a high school reading teacher to write this book, based on their innovative work with turning around the reading of struggling first grade students. The result is a reading program that breaks "out of the box" and guides parents through...
Wilderness Basics
Get the Most from Your Hiking, Backpacking, and Camping Adventures, 4th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
CLICK HERE to download the chapter on "Animal Encounters" from Wilderness Basics
* The standard text for the San Diego Sierra Club chapter’s Wilderness Basics Course
* Extensive updating throughout, including many new photos
More than 100,000 copies of Wilderness Basics have been sold...
Differentiated Reading Instruction
Strategies for the Primary Grades
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2007
This book provides a research-based framework for making differentiated instruction work in the primary grades. It includes scientifically validated techniques for teaching each component of the beginning reading program. The authors describe how to use assessment to form differentiated small groups...
The New Literacies
Multiple Perspectives on Research and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
With contributions from leading scholars, this compelling volume offers fresh insights into literacy teaching and learning—and the changing nature of literacy itself—in today's K–12 classrooms. The focus is on varied technologies and literacies such as social networking sites, text messaging,...
Integrating Literacy and Technology
Effective Practice for Grades K-6
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
An accessible resource for busy teachers, this informative book sets the stage for using technology effectively in the literacy classroom. The authors take the reader step by step through the ongoing cycle of planning, teaching, and assessment in a technology-rich environment. They demonstrate how...
Reading and Representing Across the Content Areas
A Classroom Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking work redefines traditional ideas of what a “text” should be, incorporating new kinds of multimodal texts to revitalize instruction within and across disciplines. The authors provide examples of innovative representations to aid learning in earth science, language arts,...
Teaching Discipline-Specific Literacies in Grades 6-12
Preparing Students for College, Career, and Workforce Demands
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Comprehensive, timely, and relevant, this text offers an approach to discipline-specific literacy instruction that is aligned with the Common Core State Standards and the needs of teachers, students, and secondary schools across the nation.
It is essential that teachers know how to provide...
by Accerto
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Welcome to your Advanced English course! This level is for people who want to polish their English skills in all areas, be it grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, listening or reading.
Your course will help you improve in all these levels. Obviously there is one very important ingredient to...
by Kaplan Test Prep
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Kaplan's SAT Reading & Writing Prep provides the realistic practice, in-depth review, and expert advice you need to master the reading, writing, and essay sections of the SAT. Our guide includes focused quizzes, essay-writing tips, and score-raising strategies from Kaplan's top experts to help you...
by Kate Williams
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2014
This concise, no-nonsense guide shows students how to adopt a critical approach in order to unlock their academic potential. It explains why students need to be critical and provides practical advice on how they can integrate critical analysis into their research, reading and writing. Each succinct...
Reading Instruction That Works, Fourth Edition
The Case for Balanced Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2014
This widely adopted text and K-8 practitioner resource demonstrates how successful literacy teachers combine explicit skills instruction with an emphasis on reading for meaning. Distinguished researcher Richard L. Allington builds on the late Michael Pressley's work to explain the theories and findings...