When you need a story starter, a synonym for a frequently used word, or a definition of a literary device, let your fingers do the walking through the Writing Yellow Pages. Rubrics for evaluating writing, grammar and usage rules, and a step-by-step explanation of the writing process are included in this writing reference book.

Do you spend your days working with students who struggle to comprehend reading in literacy and content classes? Are you looking for a way to establish comprehensive literacy instruction in your school or classroom so all students receive support in becoming competent and confident readers? In Yellow Brick Roads: Shared and Guided Paths to Independent Reading, 4-12, Janet Allen offers research-based methods for helping teachers move toward these goals. This book provides research, practical methods, detailed strategies, and resources for read-aloud, shared, guided, and independent reading. In addition, Janet outlines solutions for many of the literacy dilemmas that teachers face every day: Understanding what gets in the way of reading Rethinking and reorganizing time and resources Providing support for content literacy Developing assessment practices that inform instruction Supporting reading as a path to writing instruction Establishing professional communities to support individual and school-wide needs-based research The appendixes include graphic organizers to support strategy lessons, suggestions of titles for building classroom libraries, as well as web sites and professional resources that support the teaching of reading. Yellow Brick Roads will give you rich ideas, detailed strategies, and literature support for implementing those strategies. At a time when many are looking for that elusive wizard to solve students' reading problems, this book helps you create your own paths to effective literacy environments.

A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.

This guide turns every major profession and institution found in the Yellow Pages into a field trip destination. It provides background information, vocabulary words and suggested questions to ask for each destination. There is also a section on what the Bible has to say about each profession and institution.

When you need a list of /au/ words, a synonym for excess, or a just list of /u/ words, let your fingers do the walking through the Reading Yellow Pages. Word lists and rules for Hink-Pinks, examples of specific types of figurative language, and checklists for word recognition are included in this reading reference book.

As a young English teacher keen to make a difference in the world, Michelle Kuo took a job at a tough school in the Mississippi Delta, sharing books and poetry with a young African-American teenager named Patrick and his classmates. For the first time, these kids began to engage with ideas and dreams beyond their small town, and to gain an insight into themselves that they had never had before. Two years later, Michelle left to go to law school; but Patrick began to lose his way, ending up jailed for murder. And that’s when Michelle decided that her work was not done, and began to visit Patrick once a week, and soon every day, to read with him again. Reading with Patrick is an inspirational story of friendship, a coming-of-age story for both a young teacher and a student, an expansive, deeply resonant meditation on education, race and justice, and a love letter to literature and its power to transcend social barriers.