The Game Maker’s Bible is a book that teaches good game making. It goes over good ideas, bad ideas, different kinds of games, story development, particular elements such as game mechanics, and more. It also contains a section for all new ideas that are free to use. This is a new public domain book.

Presents descriptions of hundreds of urban legends and their variations, themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre, including such tales as disappearing hitchhikers and hypodermic needles left in the coin slots of pay telephones.

This resource has a strong teaching framework, giving coherence to alphabet instruction. Whole class lessons, guided practice and independent activities ensure young children cement their letter sound knowledge. The whiteboard activities bring a four-color interactivity to learning the alphabet, a boon to ELL students who thrive with multi-modal ways of learning.

This resource-rich book includes planning and instructional tools, prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students. Plus, an online resource bank with downloadables and videos. Jan Richardson's latest thinking on Guided Reading helps teachers take the next step forward to pinpoint instruction that supports every reader. Richardson uses the Assess-Decide-Guide framework to take a deep dive into each guided reading stage, covering PreA to Fluent readers, their needs, and the best ways to support and challenge them. A master reading teacher at all levels, Richardson skillfully addresses all the factors that make or break guided reading lessons: support for striving readers, strategies for reaching ELLs, making home-school connections--all with an unwavering focus on reading for deeper comprehension, to develop thoughtful, independent readers. The book includes dozens of must-have record-keeping, assessment, and reference forms, as well as how-to video links that provide show Jan in action with diverse readers.

Richardson and Dufresne, powerhouses in guided reading instruction, provide guidance in planning short, developmentally appropriate word study and phonics lessons as part of guided reading. You'll find all the support you need to teach letters, sounds, and words effectively, including 260 lessons for readers at every stage, from pre-A to fluent; assessment tools; and printable books at levels A-C.