Stop the Hate for Goodness Sake shows teachers how to confront racism and disrupt discrimination in order to deepen students’ understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Background information, statistics, and reports on incidents of hate will help students consider ethical and moral behavior. Forty step-by-step lessons involve discussion, oral and written narratives, case studies, assumption charts, and more. This thoughtful examination of today’s world will help teachers encourage reflection, foster inclusion, and inspire students to take action. This in-depth guide will show teachers of 8- to 14-year-olds how to start and manage important conversations that will lead to change.

This era of “fake” news demands a deeper curriculum that questions inconsistencies of facts and opinions in various texts and images. This timely revision of a ground-breaking book offers opportunities for students to connect with social justice issues through inventive language exploration and the active examination of all forms of media. It encourages teachers to evaluate their core teaching beliefs and recognize the realities of their students’ lives for a richer understanding of our complex world. A glossary of more than fifty strategies, along with reproducible pages for easy classroom use, complement this essential resource.

Teaching Tough Topics shows teachers how to lead students to become caring citizens as they read and respond to quality children’s literature. It focuses on topics that can be challenging or sensitive, yet are significant in order to build understanding of social justice, diversity, and equity. Racism, Homophobia, Bullying, Religious Intolerance, Poverty, and Physical and Mental Challenges are just some of the themes explored. The book is rooted in the belief that by using picture books, novels, poetry, and nonfiction, teachers can enrich learning with compassion and empathy as students make connections to texts, to others, and to the world.

Whether you like the rain, get mad and then get glad, adore a rainbow, live through a Hurricane, feel the need to shout, or just stop to enjoy the shade under a tree one day, It is very important that you learn to choose your words carefully as well as correctly, So go on now, continue living your life day to day, not thinking that life’s absurd, but Only knowing life, yes truly knowing life ONCE UPON A WORD....

Based on what we now know about reading, this practical book offers strategies in a consistent format that is easy for teachers to incorporate in their daily instruction. This grab-bag of classroom-tested activities allows teachers to choose what they need to meet the diverse needs of students in grades 1 through 8. These strategies guide students through the reading process and build important comprehension skills through reading, talk, art, drama, and more. These innovative ways to use the best children’s books will inspire students to become enthusiastic and avid readers, and take the first giant step into becoming lifelong readers.

It is 1904, and every day the coaches plyingbetween Lynmouth and Minehead scramble theirway up and slither their way down the 1 in 4gradient of Porlock Hill, the most feared hill in allof England. It takes six sturdy horses to drag aladen carriage to the top. There, the leading pairare detached and led back down into the village bya boy, a boy who knows how lucky he is to havebeen given such a responsible job at such a youngage. But on this day in May, on his return journeywith the tired horses Pug and Delia, he spots whatlooks like a sheep sheltering on the hillside. But ashe gets closer his heart races as he becomesaware... it is not a sheep... it is a white dress...