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The Journey to Success series builds adult learners' skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing. The easy-to-follow lessons feature a variety of contextualized nonfiction and fiction reading passages. Journey to Success features readings based on Work and Life Skills, Social Studies, Science, and Literature.
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The Journey to Success series builds adult learners' skills in reading comprehension, vocabulary, and writing. The easy-to-follow lessons feature a variety of contextualized nonfiction and fiction reading passages. Journey to Success features readings based on Work and Life Skills, Social Studies, Science, and Literature.
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"How to Survive Middle School: English is a highly illustrated, handy field guide that will help kids master the essential skills and lessons of middle school English. With expert knowledge presented in a bold and fun format that's easy to read and understand, students will learn, explore, and practice the terminology, techniques, and tools behind successful reading habits, literary and structural analysis, and more!"--
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What do high school teachers expect from your writing? Here's the inside information on how your teachers think. If writing essays is challenging for you-- or if you want to turn a B essay into an A essay -- you'll want to read this book. How To Write Any High School Essay is the essential, easy-to-use, and comprehensive guide for any high school essay you could ever want to write-- no matter the teacher, no matter the subject. Grounded in more than...
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Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. --from publisher description
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Fantastic strategies for getting high school students excited about writing
This book offers 50 creative writing lesson plans from the imaginative and highly acclaimed 826 National writing labs. Created as a resource to reach all students (even those most resistant to creative writing), the off-beat and attention-grabbing lessons include such gems as "Literary Facebooks," where students create a mock Facebook profile based on their favorite
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Feeding students a steady diet of fiction is all too common in the classroom. Yet informational literacy is critical to success in school and beyond. In Make it Real, Linda Hoyt provides a practical, classroom-friendly guide to unlocking the treasures of informational texts. What's more, she demonstrates that reading and writing nonfiction can overcome the gender gap, allowing girls and boys to share interests in any subject from bugs and magnets...
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"Writing is an important skill that kids use almost every day. The goal of the Write it Right series is to make kids writing experts. Writing About Your Adventure is full of tips and tricks to help kids write a personal narrative, from organizing the events to adding details. This book includes a table of contents, glossary, index, author biography, activities, and instructions"--