This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next-generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction, “You Gotta BE the Book” continues to help teachers meet new challenges, including those of increasing cultural diversity. At the core of Wilhelm’s foundational text is an in-depth account of what highly motivated adolescent readers actually do when they read, and how to help struggling readers take on those same stances and strategies. His work offers a robust model teachers can use to prepare students for the demands of disciplinary understanding and for literacy in the real world. The Third Edition includes new commentaries and tips for using visual techniques, drama and action strategies, think-aloud protocols, and symbolic story representation/reading manipulatives. Book Features: A data-driven theory of literature and literary reading as engagement. A case for undertaking teacher research with students. An approach for using drama and visual art to support readers’ comprehension. Guidance for assisting students in the use of higher-order strategies of reading (and writing) as required by next-generation standards like the Common Core. Classroom interventions to help all students, especially reluctant ones, become successful readers. Online resources, including inquiry unit templates, tools for teaching with drama, and tips for using visual techniques.

Audible's Best of the Year in Well-Being YOU ARE ENOUGH EXACTLY AS YOU ARE. ​ From the time we’re born, a litany of do’s and don’ts are placed on us by our families, our communities, and society. We’re required to fit into boxes based on our race, gender, sexuality, and other parts of our identities, being told by others how we should behave, who we should date, or what we should be interested in. For so many of us, those boxes begin to feel like shackles when we realize they don’t fit our unique shape, yet we keep trying because we crave acceptance and validation. But is “fitting in” worth the time, energy, and suffering? Actor, writer, and activist Brandon Kyle Goodman says, Hell no it ain’t! As a Black nonbinary, queer person in a dark-skinned 6’1”, 180-pound male body born into a religious immigrant household, Brandon knows the pain of having to hide one’s true self, the work of learning to love that true self, and the freedom of finally being your true self. In You Gotta Be You, Brandon affectionately challenges you to consider, “Who would I be if society never got its hands on me?” This question set Brandon on a mission to dropkick societal shackles by unlearning all the things he was told he should be in order to step into who he really is. It required him to reexamine messy but ultimately defining moments in his life—his first time being followed in a store, navigating his mother’s born-again Christianity, and regretfully using soap as lube (yes, you read that right!)—to find the lessons that would guide him to his most authentic self. Compassionate and soulful, funny and revealing, You Gotta Be You is an unapologetic call to self-freedom. It’s about turning rejection (from others and yourself) into a roadmap to self-love. It’s a guide to setting boundaries and fostering self-growth. And most importantly, it’s an affirmation that we are enough exactly as we are.

Designed to help build character and integrity in your young singers, All That I Can Be is a vibrant collection of 15 unison songs by the well-known writing team of Sally K. Albrecht and Jay Althouse. Teachers as well as parents will enjoy the lessons that can be learned through this collection of songs. The texts reinforce such concepts as teamwork, punctuality, friendship, respect, and telling the truth. Set in a wide variety of musical styles, the songs may be sung separately or together as a 30-minute program. These songs will teach all who sing and all who listen how important it is to be "All That I Can Be " The Teacher's Handbook includes reproducible song sheets and word games, programming ideas, and suggestions for additional activities. Recommended for grades 2--7.

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We all go through many seasons in our lives. There are often times we feel like we are under a microscope, living in darkness, feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. Yet at other time, we may feel all alone. Have you ever felt engulfed by sorrow and despair? What about the time when you feel like laughing but you have to sigh? The time when you feel like crying but you have to grin? It's only a season, just like spring, summer, fall and winter. Gaining knowledge about the various seasons of life will help you through your walk in life. There will be some who make it on this journey, while others may lose their way as in being in a maze, and others be left on the way side. It is my sincere desire that we all make it through the various seasons of life. It's a matter of knowing how....and you too can make it through! The author, Marthe Bellanton-BienAime has truly dedicated her life to the Glory of God and being an instrument to be used for the building of his kingdom. Born in Haiti, the author is a mother, a teacher, an encourager, and a spirit-led writer with a great sense of humor. She has experience in the mass media of Radio & Television broadcasting. She is also very gifted in organization and administration. Some of her most prized hobbies include singing, reading, cruising and traveling. She holds the following degrees: Associate Applied Science in Computers and Business Programming, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Ongoing Master's degree in Nursing Informatics, and Licensed Real Estate Agent in the state of Georgia.