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Bridging: A Teacher's Guide to Metaphorical Thinking

Author(s): Sharon L. Pugh, Jean Wolph Hicks, Marcia Davis, Tonya Venstra

Building a solid bridge between language theory and practices pertaining to metaphorical thinking, Bridging provides teachers with useful strategies for exploring the roles that metaphors play in both thinking and language use.

Level(s): Middle, Secondary

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Building a Knowledge Base in Reading. Second Edition.

Author(s): Jane Braunger, Jan Patricia Lewis

This updated edition brings teachers a broad and balanced research perspective to help build instruction around the best possible evidence-based reading research.

Level(s): Elementary

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Changing Our Minds: Negotiating English and Literacy

Author(s): Miles Myers

In this book, Myers refutes the common public perception that American schools have failed—in fact, he shows that American schools have been phenomenally successful in eliminating conventional illiteracy.

Level(s): Secondary

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Child and Tale: The Origins of Interest

Author(s): F. Andre Favat

This study looks at similarities between the characteristics of fairy tales and Piaget’s observed characteristics of young children. The work also establishes a methodology for studying the reading interests of children.

Level(s): Elementary

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Children's Books from Other Countries

Editor(s): Carl M. Tomlinson

This annotated bibliography of children's books contains 724 titles from 29 countries printed between 1950 and 1996—all in English, many in translation. The titles, organized by genre, have been selected for their high quality.

Level(s): Elementary, Middle

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Children's Inquiry: Using Language to Make Sense of the World

Author(s): Judith Wells Lindfors

This fascinating exploration of children's inquiry will help teacher educators and elementary teachers to understand, appreciate, and foster children's inquiry in classrooms.

Level(s): Elementary

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Children's Poetry Preferences: A National Survey of Upper Elementary Grades

Author(s): Ann Terry

Using the results of a national survey to discover the poetry preferences of fourth- through sixth-grade students, Terry provides conclusions and implications for teaching.

Level(s): Elementary

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Code-Switching: Teaching Standard English in Urban Classrooms

Author(s): Rebecca S. Wheeler, Rachel Swords

Wheeler and Swords show K–6 teachers how to use code-switching and contrastive analysis to help students use prior knowledge to translate vernacular English into Standard English.
NCTE Consulting Network Author

Level(s): Elementary

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Creating Support for Effective Literacy Education: Workshop Materials and Handouts

Author(s): Constance Weaver, Lorraine Gillmeister-Krau, Grace Vento-Zogby

The materials in this collection—including numerous transparencies, brochures, and fact sheets—clearly convey what we know about the effective teaching and learning of literacy.

Level(s): Elementary

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Dual Language Essentials for Teachers and Administrators

Author(s): Yvonne S. Freeman, David E. Freeman, Sandra P. Mercuri

This book provides the guiding principles and practices for successful dual language or two-way bilingual education.
NCTE Consulting Network Authors

Level(s): Elementary, Middle

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