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Book Synopsis Naked Bunyip Dancing by : Steven Herrick
Download or read book Naked Bunyip Dancing written by Steven Herrick and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel in verse follows the school year of Australian students in classroom 6C, as their unconventional teacher encourages them to discover their own strengths and talents and then perform in a memorable concert.
Download or read book Good Books Matter written by Larry Swartz and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2008 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on extensive research on the features that make children's books appealing and appropriate, this valuable teacher resource offers guidance on selecting books, strategies for specific grade levels, suggestions for extension, and tips for assessment. This teacher-friendly book is organized around the major genres — traditional literature, picture books, nonfiction, poetry, and multicultural texts — that will inspire young readers. Throughout the book, teachers will find suggestions for using literature to implement shared reading, reading aloud, and response strategies with emergent, developing, and independent readers. This comprehensive book is rooted in the belief that educators must consider and offer a wide range of choice to ensure that students read "good" books. It argues that the choices children make about what they read should be governed by their interests and desire to learn; not by a grade or reading level.
Book Synopsis Bridges to Understanding by : Linda Pavonetti
Download or read book Bridges to Understanding written by Linda Pavonetti and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2011-10-16 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fourth volume sponsored by the United States Board on Books for Young People, following Children's Books from Other Countries (1998), The World Through Children's Books (2002), and Crossing Boundaries (2006). This latest volume, edited by Linda M. Pavonetti, includes books published between 2005 and 2009. This annotated bibliography, organized geographically by world region and country, with descriptions of nearly 700 books representing more than 70 countries, is a valuableresource for librarians, teachers, and anyone else seeking to promote international understanding through children's literature. Like its predecessors, it will be an important tool for providing stories that will help children understand our differences while simultaneously demonstrating our common humanity.
Book Synopsis Using Poetry Across the Curriculum by : Barbara Chatton
Download or read book Using Poetry Across the Curriculum written by Barbara Chatton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-01-13 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive listing and discussion of poetic works supports the standards of all areas of the curriculum, helping librarians and teachers working with kindergarten through middle school students. This second edition of Using Poetry Across the Curriculum: Learning to Love Language offers a comprehensive list of poetry anthologies, poetic picture books, and poetic prose works in a wide variety of subject areas. While it maintains the original edition's focus on ideas and resource lists for integration of poetry into all areas of the curriculum, it is thoroughly revised to cover current issues in education and the wealth of new poetry books available. The book is organized by subject areas commonly taught in elementary and middle schools, and, within these, by the national standards in each area. Numerous examples of poetry and poetic prose that can be used to help students understand and appreciate aspects of the standard are listed. A sampling of units that arise from groups of works, writing and performance ideas, and links across the curriculum is also included. While many teaching ideas and topics provide references to the standards they meet, this title is unique in starting with those standards and making links across them.
Book Synopsis Drawn to the Sea by : Stephen (Steve) Charles Hembry
Download or read book Drawn to the Sea written by Stephen (Steve) Charles Hembry and published by Balboa Press. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen (Steve) Charles Hembry nearly drowned in the sea – but it has also sustained and fascinated him. In this memoir, he shares how he almost followed in the footsteps of his ancestors to make the sea his vocation. While he chose a different path, the sea remains relevant as a metaphor to the mission he chose, which is helping people cope with trauma. Whether it's within the realm of relationships, emotions, physical disease, injury, or in the spiritual domain, the author highlights how he has overcome or helped others cope with trauma, suffering, and pain. To carry out his work, he’s relied on clinical hypnosis, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing, and counseling for those suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He’s also administered various forms of pain relief, offered nutritional advice, removed skin lesions, sutured lacerations, and much more. Join the author as he looks back at his adventures throughout the world and the amazing things he’s seen or done while being Drawn to the Sea.
Download or read book Cold Skin written by Steven Herrick and published by Front Street, Incorporated. This book was released on 2009 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a rural Australian coal mining town shortly after World War II, teenaged Eddie makes a startling discovery when he investigates the murder of a local high school girl.
Book Synopsis "This Is a Great Book!" by : Larry Swartz
Download or read book "This Is a Great Book!" written by Larry Swartz and published by Pembroke Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-30 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This Is a Great Book!" is rooted in the belief that having a wide range of "great" books to read is essential to student success as readers inside the classroom ... and beyond. Based on extensive research, this highly readable book explores a wide range of recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages for readers of chapter books to young adult novels. It presents novels around popular themes and features guest voices that include innovative teachers, librarians, booksellers, and students. Numerous activities and literacy events form the core of this valuable resource. Reproducible pages include response activities, reflection tools, assessment profiles, and inventories for easy classroom use. Committed to nurturing the love of reading, the book invites readers to dig deeper in their understanding and appreciation of books by responding through writing, discussion, the arts, media, and more. Special attention is given to the world of independent leisure reading, where students make choices based on their preferences and tastes. Experienced and new teachers will find fresh ideas and the tools they need to guide students to "great" books that will make a difference in their lives.
Download or read book Place Like This written by Steven Herrick and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special reissue of a bestselling Australian classic from award-winning author Steven Herrick.Jack and Annabel have been dating for two years. With high school over they’re about to start university – until Jack decides to chuck it all in.I think you and Annabel should get out of hereas fast as possible. Have a year doing anythingyou want. My going-away present is enough moneyto buy a car – a cheap old one, okay? You’ll have towork somewhere to buy the petrol, and to keep going.But go.No destination in mind, Jack and Annabel leave town and discover themselves in a place they never knew existed.An inspiring verse novel about the pursuit of dreams and the realities of life, A Place Like This was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers and New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards and commended in the Victorian Premier's Literary Award Sheaffer Pen Prize for Young Adult Fiction.‘A story as crisp and fresh as an apple, as sweet and sharp as life itself.’ - Australian Book Review
Book Synopsis Writer's Market 2010 by : Caroline Taggart
Download or read book Writer's Market 2010 written by Caroline Taggart and published by F+W Media, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 2207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE MOST TRUSTED GUIDE TO GETTING PUBLISHED Written by writers for writers and backed by 89 years of authority, Writer's Market is the #1 resource for helping writers sell their work. Used by both seasoned professionals and writers new to the publishing world, Writer's Market has helped countless writers transform their love of writing from a hobby into a career. Nowhere else but in the 2010 Writer's Market will you find the most comprehensive and reliable information you need. This new edition includes: Complete, up-to-date contact information and submission guidelines for more than 3,500 market listings, including literary agents, book publishers, magazines, newspapers, production companies, theaters, greeting card companies, and more. Informative interviews, helpful tips and instructional articles on the business of writing. The "How Much Should I Charge?" pay rate charts for professional freelancers. Sample good and bad queries in the "Query Letter Clinic." Easy-to-use format and tabbed pages so you can quickly locate the information you need!
Download or read book The Verse Novel written by Linda Weste and published by Australian Scholarly Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-28 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these thirty-five interviews with verse novelists from Australia and Aotearoa–New Zealand, Linda Weste explores the uniqueness of storytelling through poetry and the genre of the verse novel. Her subjects are notable representatives of a region where verse novels for Adults, Children and Young Adults thrive; among them is Steven Herrick, winner of the prestigious Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 2019; and what they have to say enriches our understanding of the verse novel across each of its publishing categories.
Book Synopsis Love, Ghosts and Nose Hair by : Steven Herrick
Download or read book Love, Ghosts and Nose Hair written by Steven Herrick and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2017-01-03 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special reissue of a bestselling Australian classic from award-winning author Steven Herrick.Jack is an everyday sixteen-year-old boy. He’s obsessed with Annabel, sport and nose hair. He’s also obsessed with a ghost ...There’s a ghost in our housein a red evening dress,black stockingsand Mum’s slingback shoes.Her hair whispersover white shouldersas she dances through the rooms.A bittersweet comedy about the infinite promise of first love and the everlasting sorrow of grief, Love, Ghosts & Nose Hair was shortlisted for the CBCA Book of the Year: Older Readers and New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards.‘Sad, funny, moving and thoughtful.’ - Magpies
Book Synopsis Take Me to Your Readers by : Larry Swartz
Download or read book Take Me to Your Readers written by Larry Swartz and published by Pembroke Publishers Limited. This book was released on 2017-09-22 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thoughtful book is rooted in the belief that teachers can lead their students to develop their reading tastes and grow in their love of reading at the same time as supporting and stretching students in their meaning-making experiences. This practical resource highlights more than 50 instructional strategies that invite students to work inside and outside a book through reading, writing, talk, and arts experiences. It highlights the work of guest voices that include classroom teachers, occasional teachers, special education teachers, and librarians who share their best literacy practices. Take Me to Your Readers uses 5 essential areas to structure classroom experiences through children's literature: Motivation; Theme Connections; Genre Connections; Cross-Curricular Connections; and Response. Extensive booklists, teaching tips, a wide range of activities, and reproducible pages provide practical support. Ultimately, this book is designed to take teachers to their readers and start them on a lifelong journey through great books!
Book Synopsis Untangling Spaghetti by : Steven Herrick
Download or read book Untangling Spaghetti written by Steven Herrick and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are toenails a good source of vitamen C? What are ten things you will never hear your parents say? And, more importantly, how do you untangle spaghetti? A collection of humorous, touching and thought-provoking poems celebrating the everyday lives of children through topics as wide-ranging as food, animals, school, friends and sport -- especially soccer!
Download or read book Rhyming Boy written by Steven Herrick and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A novel about a young boy's search for his identity. Jayden Hayden doesn't have a dad - just a mum obsessed with Jayden Finch, the footballer and an embarrassing name that earns him ridicule and the nickname, Rhyming Boy. Then a school father-son event sends him on a quest to find his father. Could Jayden Finch be more than just a namesake? Jayden hopes that meeting his father will explain some of the differences between him and his mum, as well as giving him the chance to spend more time with the raven-haired Saskia. The two embark on an amusing but emotional search from which Jayden learns far more about himself than just who his father is."--Provided by publisher
Book Synopsis Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend by : Steven Herrick
Download or read book Pookie Aleera is Not My Boyfriend written by Steven Herrick and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A heart-warming tale about friendship, grief, and the importance of baked goods, this book tells the stories of the kids from Class 6A. There's Mick, school captain and sometime trouble-maker, who wants to make the school a better place, while his younger brother Jacob just wants to fly. There's shy and lonely Laura who hopes to finally fit in with a circle of friends, while Pete struggles to deal with his grandpa's sudden death. Popular Selina obsesses over class comedian Cameron, while Cameron obsesses over Anzac biscuits and Pookie Aleera—whoever that is! For new teacher Ms. Arthur, it's another world, but Mr. Korsky, the school groundskeeper, has seen it all before.
Book Synopsis The Naked Truth by : Graeme Blundell
Download or read book The Naked Truth written by Graeme Blundell and published by Hachette Australia. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE NAKED TRUTH is Graeme Blundell's personal insight into the early years of truly indepedent local theatre, the wild film industry of the seventies, the controversial rise of Australian television, and his role in each of them.
Book Synopsis Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books by :
Download or read book Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
