Adult literacy guides and handbooks

Building crucial bridges between theory, research, and practice, this volume brings together leading authorities on the literacy development of young children.

Packed with easy-to-use tools and resources, this book presents intensive intervention strategies for K5 students with severe and persistent reading difficulties.

This book answers readers' most pressing questions about exercise and physical activity and will serve as a valuable resource to anyone interested in starting and maintaining healthy habits in this important area of health.

This authoritative text and PreK12 teacher resource is now in a substantially revised seventh edition with 80% new material, foregrounding advances in inclusive, equitable instruction.

The Yeti, or Dremo in Tibetan, is a dim-witted mythical beast said to feed only on marmots.

Kaplan's MCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Review 2026-2027 offers an expert study plan, detailed subject review, and hundreds of online and in-book practice questionsall authored by the experts behind Kaplans score-raising MCAT prep course.

This book has been replaced by Teaching Reading Comprehension to Students with Learning Difficulties, Third Edition, ISBN 978-1-4625-5479-9.

Specifically designed for K-3 teachers, this accessible guide describes ways to use informational text creatively and effectively in both reading and writing instruction.

An aptitude test is designed to measure the potential for achievement in an individual, whilst an IQ test is a standardized test designed to measure intelligence.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words.

Offering fresh alternatives to common instructional practices that fail to get results, this accessible, highly practical guide highlights ways to motivate middle school students while enhancing content-area learning.

Kaplan's MCAT Critical Analysis and Reasoning Skills Review 2024-2025 offers an expert study plan, detailed subject review, and hundreds of online and in-book practice questionsall authored by the experts behind Kaplan's score-raising MCAT prep course.

This user-friendly guide has been thoroughly revised to reflect significant changes in the way schools deliver reading instruction and intervention, especially for students at risk for reading failure.

Preschool teachers and early childhood professionals know that storybook reading is important, but they may not know how to maximize its benefits for later reading achievement.

IQ and psychometric tests are increasingly used in recruitment and selection procedures by those companies who want to ensure they employ workers of the highest calibre.

This accessible guide brings together well-known authorities to examine what reading fluency is and how it can best be taught.

The definitive practitioner resource and text for developing excellence as a PreK12 literacy/reading specialist is now updated to reflect key changes in the field.

All key issues of research and practice in comprehension instruction are addressed in this highly regarded professional resource and course text.

This book brings together some of the worlds foremost literacy scholars to discuss how research influences what teachers actually do in the classroom.

In this indispensable work, prominent authorities review the latest research on all aspects of ELL instruction (K12) and identify what works for today's students and schools.

Reading Comprehension and Skills for first grade is designed to help students develop a strong foundation of reading basics so that they will become competent readers who can advance to more challenging texts.

An acclaimed reference that fills a significant gap in the literature, this volume examines the linkages between spoken and written language development, both typical and atypical.

This book describes effective, engaging ways to build young childrens print concepts and alphabetic knowledge, which are crucial for both reading and writing development.

Gaining the skills to critically read a wide variety of informational texts is more important than ever for todays K-12 students.

Reading Comprehension and Skills for third grade is designed to help students develop a strong foundation of reading basics so that they will become competent readers who can advance to more challenging texts.

Successful students use comprehension skills and strategies throughout the school day.

This trusted practitioner guide and course text helps K-8 teachers utilize assessment as an integral component of classroom instruction.

This book provides classroom-tested methods for engaging struggling middle grade readers--even those who appear to have given up--and fostering their success.

Inspired by Mary Shelley's conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents four essays on modern interactions with literary classics.

Inspired by Mary Shelley's conviction that reading is a socially significant communal activity, this book presents four essays on modern interactions with literary classics.

Literacy learning clubs are highly motivating small-group collaborations that can improve tweens and teens academic achievement, support their social-emotional development, and increase their enjoyment of reading and writing.

Experts have yet to reach consensus about what a learning disability is, how to determine if a child has one, and what to do about it.

The book delves deeply into the concept of hidden power that exists within each of us but often goes untapped.

This acclaimed teacher resource and course text describes proven ways to accelerate the language and literacy development of young children, including those at risk for reading difficulties.

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IQ tests are now encountered in recruitment for the government, the armed forces, education, industry and commerce.

IQ and psychometric tests are increasingly used in recruitment and selection procedures by those companies who want to ensure they employ workers of the highest calibre.

IQ tests are now encountered in recruitment for the government, the armed forces, education, industry and commerce.

Tens of thousands of teachers have used this skillfully crafted book to build childrens word knowledge with engaging categorization activities organized by spelling stages.

Reading Comprehension and Skills for sixth grade is designed to help students develop a strong foundation of reading basics so that they will become competent readers who can advance to more challenging texts.

A user-friendly, concept-first approach to Middle School ELA that helps you improve your skills quickly and easilyMust Know Middle School ELA provides a fresh approach to learning.

From leading authorities in both adolescent literacy and content-area teaching, this book addresses the particular challenges of literacy learning in each of the major academic disciplines.

Aptitude tests assess a person's abilities or intelligence, often as part of an IQ test, whilst personality questionnaires help to reveal an individual's characteristics or personality traits.

From Feydeau to Fitzgerald, from Hugo to Hemingway, the Paris locations that have influenced modern literatureA photographic stroll around the bookshops, famous literary restaurants and storied streets of Europe's favourite tourist destinationLiterary Landscapes: Paris takes this major European city and with picture perfect photography, compiles an album of memorable views linked to the words of Parisian authors, or writers who made Paris their home.

This esteemed reference work and professional resource, now substantially revised, integrates classic and cutting-edge research on how children and adolescents make meaning from text.

This highly regarded teacher resource synthesizes the research base on word recognition and translates it into step-by-step instructional strategies, with special attention to students who are struggling.

The future needs Dyslexic Thinking!

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words.

This book guides teachers in grades 6-12 to strategically combine a variety of texts--including literature, informational texts, and digital sources--to meet their content-area goals and the demands of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).