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This new edition presents the library media specialist and teacher working as full teaching partners to create a collaborative atmosphere for student success. Collaboratively planned, versatile units incorporate information literacy and content standards, suffuse them with technology, and provide multidisciplinary lessons that are inquiry-based and interactive.
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On his first day at a new school, eleven-year-old Billy goes up against the school bully in a challenge that ends up with a total gross-out date...to eat 10 worms in one day. As the pressure mounts, Billy must summon all his strength to meet the dare, all the while keeping his weak stomach from betraying him and his big mouth from getting him in even more trouble.
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Outlines the development of an information literacy program. Presents model lessons for working within the elementary program; provides sample lessons for secondary schools; and includes templates for common instructional resources. Includes a CD-ROM with activity sheets, forms, and other documents mentioned in the text.
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This practical resource for media specialists, classroom teachers, and homeschoolers assists in introducing students to the worlds of children's literature and research. The text is divided into three main categories of games. Those related to fiction include guessing and creating book clues, title charades, and a book-character scramble that is similar to Scrabble. The second category of nonfiction activities introduces subjects such as the Dewey...
7) Spellbound
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Follows the lives of eight young Americans who share one goal: to win the 1999 National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. The Bee is as intense a competition as any Olympic match, for both the spellers and their families. The unbearable pressure becomes even more extraordinary when it is felt by ordinary teenagers.
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Homer works, with pride, in a nuclear power plant run with more regard for profit that safety. Marge is his wife, who is a hardworking supermom. Together they have three kids: Bart is the oldest, but an underachiever ("and proud of it"), Lisa is the brains in the family and is known at school as the "principal's pet," and Maggie, who is the baby.
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"These tried and tested collaborative lesson plans by seasoned school library professionals will help you meet curriculum standards while facilitating cooperative planning between school librarians and classroom teachers. Designed for use with students in the primary grades, the lessons integrate research skills instruction with curriculum standards in science and social studies. Developed using standard reference materials such as biographies, atlases,...
15) The Simpsons
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Homer thinks he can make a fortune by selling grease, as well as growing jealous of Thomas Edison and seeking to become an inventor. Marge develops road rage. Bart cares for bird eggs. Striking revenge when the kids of Springfield are put on an unjust curfew. Homer chickens out in donating a kidney to Grandpa and goes to Vegas with Flanders, and becomes a renowned artist, well, kind of. The family going to Tokyo.