Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Shimmer, sparkle, twirl . . . I am a compassionate girl! When Imani gets to know her new classmate, she decides to do something nice for them. She's just not sure what. Can Imani figure out a way to make a difference for her new classmate? Read WokeTM Books are created in partnership with Cicely Lewis, the Read Woke librarian, to reflect the diversity of our world.

Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and sentence highlighting for an engaging read aloud experience! Shimmer, sparkle, twirl . . . I am a resilient girl! It's bad enough that Imani had a slow start to her research project. But when disaster strikes the night before it's due, she's really in trouble. Will Imani be able to pick up the pieces in time to give her report? Read WokeTM Books are created in partnership with Cicely Lewis, the Read Woke librarian, to reflect the diversity of our world.

Shimmer, sparkle, twirl . . . I am an empowered girl! Imani's step team wants to enter the Glow Talent Show. But first they need money for the entry fee. How far will Imani go to help the Mighty Steppers earn their way? Read WokeTM Books are created in partnership with Cicely Lewis, the Read Woke librarian, to reflect the diversity of our world.

This book offers a fresh look into the “languages of postcolonial modernity” in Africa and, to a lesser degree, its diaspora. It foregrounds the notion of postcolonial modernity in reference to modernization as experienced in the postcolony and its contemporary legacies, and investigates how African languages and literatures, both as means of communication and as instruments of cultural agency, have embodied and mediated modernity. Each chapter grapples with the literary or linguistic dimensions of postcolonial modernity as portrayed in African novels, film, poetry or popular music or as embodied in African and Afro-diasporic languages and dialects. The chapters also reveal how literature and language, respectively, document and embody discourses, phenomena, histories, ideologies, and beliefs that resulted from the legacies of colonialism.

When a child is struggling with a learning disability or behavioral disorder, it can be overwhelming for their parents, who often do not know what to do or where to turn for help. This groundbreaking book is a "must have" for any parent, educator, or person who cares for and wants to help children who face challenges in school. It will help you to recognize the warning signs that may indicate a potential problem with a child and explain how to find the best help. This superb guide shows you how to obtain the necessary assessment(s) that will help you to better understand a child's strengths and weaknesses. It also describes what an educational "accommodation" is and how it can serve as a bridge to learning. Every child has the legal right to fully access the learning environment and to show what they truly know when taking tests. The authors describe how accommodations specifically target a child's weaknesses in order to level the playing field in the classroom and during test taking situations. Accommodations can be as simple as giving the child extra time to finish a test or allowing them to take a test in a smaller group to minimize distractions. In addition, this handbook outlines the relevant research to help you understand the big picture of a child's learning and emotional needs. The authors offer extensive discussion of issues such as attention and concentration, memory, executive functioning, language, visual perception and processing, emotional functioning, and social skills. Throughout, they stress that, by focusing on behaviors and not labels, you will be able to better understand the whats, whys, and hows of a child's learning and emotional challenges.

Reasoning about structure-reactivity and chemical processes is a key competence in chemistry. Especially in organic chemistry, students experience difficulty appropriately interpreting organic representations and reasoning about the underlying causality of organic mechanisms. As organic chemistry is often a bottleneck for students’ success in their career, compiling and distilling the insights from recent research in the field will help inform future instruction and the empowerment of chemistry students worldwide. This book brings together leading research groups to highlight recent advances in chemistry education research with a focus on the characterization of students’ reasoning and their representational competencies, as well as the impact of instructional and assessment practices in organic chemistry. Written by leaders in the field, Student Reasoning in Organic Chemistry is ideal for chemistry education researchers, instructors and practitioners, and graduate students in chemistry education.

Together, We Are Better is a real story, but it is not a true story. The charming, smart little storyteller is based on a real girl that I had the pleasure of meeting. However, I combined her with many children that I have met over the years. I used facts and my imagination to take you on a journey from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the United States of America. This is a journey that many people are taking, and we have met some of them. I wondered how it must feel for a child, who has no voice in her parents' decision, to leave one country for another. I wondered, but I had to trust my own life experiences and my imagination. However, I could not have written this book without the real Imani and her lovely family. Her mother, Julie, was my guardian angel. She made certain that I stayed true to the culture of both countries. She corrected and added to my French. She encouraged me when I felt completely overwhelmed by the task that I had undertaken. Of my three books, this one is the most important. No, there are no mice, like in The Adventures of Orie the Orpheum Mouse or Jump, Drew, Jump! This book must stand on its own. It just might make a difference in the lives of the readers. Perhaps, we will become a little more understanding, more welcoming, or even more inquisitive about people with different backgrounds and lives. The one thing that I know for sure is that together, we are better. Bonjour!