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Designed for kindergartners and first-graders, this proven plan for teaching phonological awareness features a developmentally sequenced, 11-week program that meets Reading First criteria.
Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
Hacking the Code: Children's book which is visually appealing, humorous and kid-friendly, for a broad group of readers from 8 - 80 years, and also to reluctant readers. It contains over 80 black and white illustrations and has a word count of 17,250. Kees is a dyslexic elementary schooler who really struggles with reading and writing and thinks school is a nightmare. His self-esteem is low, and he often feels stupid. Except when he and his best friend, Pete, dream up pranks, which they often pull off with members of their secret friends group. After another prank (a pretty good one), the principal has it and gives Kees and Pete a rather unusual punishment. They earn the dreadful task of writing a two-page essay about what they find to be the hardest thing they have ever done. In the painful writing process, Kees discovers there are particular times he has found difficult or which have made him feel sad, but he also figures out what he is good at and that he isn't stupid, after all. Dyslexia gives him superpowers.
A phonics bestseller for over 30 years, Explode the code has helped millions of students nationwide build the essential literacy skills needed for reading success: phonological awareness, decoding, vocabulary, comprehension, fluency, and spelling.
Kids love jokes; and teachers and SLPs love fast and eary ways to improve students' phonological awareness. That's why every elementary and middle-school SLP and educator needs this playful, effective activity book, packed with jokes and riddles that increase students' awreness of the phonemes that makeup words. The perfect way to avoid "drill and kill" instruction while still giving children the strong foundation they need to be successful readers, Sounds Like Fun: enhances the literacy skills children need for academic success; uses humour as an effective learning tool; helps older student work on phonological awareness skills; requires no extra training or materials; and works with all students, including children with learning disabilities, struggling readers, and English language learners. Complete with clear instructions and helpful appendices of consonant and vaowl sounds, this activity book is a simple, cost-effective, and reliable way to make learning key literacy skills fun for the whole class.
The primary purpose of The Road to Self Leadership Development is to provide individuals who want to become a leader with a systematic approach for learning how to first learn to become a self-leader. Readers learn that to lead others involves learning how to lead the self and self-leadership is all about improving feelings of self-worth.
