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The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Instruction Review

March 9th, 2010 No comments
The CAFE Book: Engaging All Students in Daily Literary Assessment and Instruction

Surely, if you are reading this review, you are probably a fan or a devotee of this book: Daily Five, The, the book that provided a framework for literacy instruction that revolutionized classrooms across the country. After implementing “the Sisters” authentic literacy practices, teachers around the country asked, “What’s next?” and the Sisters responded by [...]

The Daily Five Review

March 8th, 2010 No comments
The Daily Five

I purchased this book and read it within a few hours. This book is cleary written, conscise, not full of jargon, and truly written for the classroom teacher to implement effectively. I teach 1st grade and can easily transition my students into this routine. The authors offerpractical advice regarding teaching of behaviors, management, assessment, and [...]

The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents–The Definitive Edition Review

March 7th, 2010 No comments
The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive Edition

This new edition of the RTS is worth buying even if you already own an earlier edition. The editor has included important material on how this book was developed and interpreted.
As for the book itself, the Road to Serfdom explains focuses on the rise of totalitarianism in twentieth century Europe. Yet it also made [...]

A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers Review

March 2nd, 2010 No comments
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Seventh Edition: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)

The 7th edition of Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers features significant new material, a more user-friendly arrangement, much-needed rules for online resources, and an eye-friendly, two-tone typeset format.
Editors Booth, Colomb, and Williams have adapted material from their The Craft of Research and inserted it as Part I of the 7th edition.Researchers now get [...]

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Fourth Edition Review

March 1st, 2010 No comments
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, Fourth Edition

A lot of self-help books are hit or miss because they give you one or two strategies for solving a problem. Not so with this book- that’s because its a workbook. This means the book takes a problem, and gives you MANY different strategies and ways of solving it. I’m a big fan of workbooks, [...]