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"In this mixed narrative/reference format book, the author presents a narrative discussion of her Teacher Decision Making Framework in Part I before taking a closer look at how this model applies to readers across three guided reading text level bands - making - in Parts II, III, and IV, respectively. After applying the framework to specific learners, goals, and texts in each band, she offers a set of Decision Guides teachers can use as reference points to plan lessons and prepare for in the moment decisions around three specific instructional areas: Word Solving, Fluency and Expression, and Comprehension"--

This book outlines the strategies used in the investigation, characterization, management, and restoration /remediation for various contaminated sites. It draws on real-world examples to illustrate remediation techniques and discusses their applicability. This new edition adds twelve new chapters, and is expanded throughout.

Recent developments in policy evaluation have focused on new notions of process and use or, notably, "influence

A social and historical study of jokes from the principal English-speaking countries. It makes detailed comparisons between the humour of specific pairs of nations and ethnic and regional groups to achieve an appreciation of the unique characteristics of the humour of each nation or group.

Presents important ways to understanding the power and complexity of the forces in the lives of children that impact their literacy learning.

Aims to bring to the forefront linguistic, demographic, sociocultural, workforce, familial, academic, and other issues surrounding the development of bilingualism and biliteracy by adults in the US. This book critically analyzes the assumptions that normalize monolingual and mono-literate approaches to adult education.

This volume provides a directory of electronic media archives in the USA and Canada. Covering both private and institutional collections, the book is organized by state and city with indexes to provide the reader with the subject and location of specific topics of interest.

This book explores the influence of collaborative relationships among dual career couples on innovation and productivity. It proposes a new definition of egalitarianism.

This work describes the drive for empire as part of a larger ideological whole, one both expressing and aggravating a crisis of democracy. This ideology is about far more than America's role in the world - it encompasses an elaborate view of human nature and society.

Looks into how, why, and when people pursue those things in life that they desire, the things they do to make their existence attractive, worth living. This book synthesizes three main forms of leisure (serious, casual, and project-based) showing their distinctive features, similarities, and interrelationships.

The rapid loss of tropical forests has been a global concern since the 1980s and has prompted a variety of international initiatives. This work offers insights into the global/national interactions relating to forest conservation and development, along with lessons for future strategies.

Designed to help educators to define, select, and defend realistic educational practices that include and serve well their English language learning student populations. This volume is intended for educational administrators, all educators who have a keen interest in school reform at the classroom, school, or district level.

Throughout history political, religious and other single-issue lobbying groups have attempted to curtail social research projects. In this text, Morton Hunt examines their influence and ability to stifle research from a non-partis an standpoint.

Traces the careers of thirteen women and men who have presided over a total of twenty universities at a time of change and uncertainty, when opportunities for achievement and potential for failure made their role uncommonly challenging, and success called for considerable determination, integrity, foresight, skill, and courage.

Divided into four parts, the book deals with the context of the moralization of the markets; the major social institutions; and present case studies that examine European and American attitudes and behavior towards tobacco and GMO. This volume will interest sociologists, economists, social scientists, and the general consumer.

Deals with the Reading Research.

Organized around five themes: Multiple Global Issues for Immigrant Children and the Schools They Attend; They Are Here: Newcomers in the Schools; Views and Voices of Immigrant Children; Far from Home With Fluctuating Hopes; and Searching for New Ways to Belong. This work is intended for researchers, students, professionals and policymakers.

Applies evolutionary and cultural theory to the interpretation of prehistoric cultural development in the western hemisphere. This book reviews cultural development in Mesoamerica and the central Andes, and examines adaptation in North and South American regions with similar environments.

How are families the same or different around the world? This book puts the similarities and differences into perspective, presenting an analysis of family life in 17 countries around the world. It describes the types of family patterns within each country's social organization and culture. It is suitable for undergraduate and graduate students.

The disintegration of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s ended the Yugoslavian Federation, which for nearly fifty years had succeeded in preserving a delicate coexistence among the ethnic, religious, and national components contained within it. This book describes and analyzes the growth of radical Islam in the Balkans.