Tera Ragland's Library
West Creek High
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| 9781605531564 | Brain Games For Kids | Editors of Publications International Ltd. | Many educators agree that games and puzzles are among the best ways to engage children in the thinking process. Brain Games for Kids #2 is part of the children s book selections in the popular Brain Games series. The book is packed with an entertaining collection of crossword puzzles, word games, math puzzles, mazes, picture puzzles, and more. Each fun game and puzzle will boost your child s brainpower, improving language skills, logical thinking, and analytical reasoning.Puzzles are grouped by difficulty level from 1 to 5, and answers to every puzzle are included at the back of the book. The fun-filled exercises promote these different areas of learning for children:AnalysisAttentionComputationCreative thinkingGeneral knowledgeLanguageLogicPlanningProblem solvingSpatial planningSpatial reasoningSpatial visualizationVisual searchBrain Games for Kids #2 includes the following types of puzzles for children that can enhance cognitive functions:AnagramsCrossword puzzlesCryptogramsLanguage puzzlesLogic puzzlesMath puzzlesMemory puzzlesMazesObservation and perspective puzzlesSequencing gamesVisual logic puzzlesWord searchesBrain Games for Kids #2 is spiral-bound and portable, with a sturdy cover that resists rips and tears, making it perfect for home or on the road. Brain Games for Kids #2 will entertain children while stimulating the learning process. | Publications International |
| 9780756618926 | Children's Illustrated Encyclopedia | DK Publishing | A comprehensive, visually enticing, one-volume encyclopedia includes more than two thousand subentries covering facts from science, technology, space, history, and the arts. | DK Children |
| 9780385740074 | Chinese Cinderella: The True Story Of An Unwanted Daughter | Adeline Yen Mah | More than 800,000 copies in print!From the author of critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Falling Leaves, this is a poignant and moving true account of her childhood, growing up as an unloved daughter in 1940s China.A Chinese proverb says, "Falling leaves return to their roots." In her own courageous voice, Adeline Yen Mah returns to her roots to tell the story of her painful childhood and her ultimate triumph in the face of despair.Adeline's affluent, powerful family considers her bad luck after her mother dies giving birth to her, and life does not get any easier when her father remarries. Adeline and her siblings are subjected to the disdain of her stepmother, while her stepbrother and stepsister are spoiled with gifts and attention. Although Adeline wins prizes at school, they are not enough to compensate for what she really yearns for -- the love and understanding of her family. Like the classic Cinderella story, this powerful memoir is a moving story of resilience and hope.Includes an Author's Note, a 6-page photo insert, a historical note, and the Chinese text of the original Chinese Cinderella.A PW BEST BOOK OF THE YEARAN ALA-YALSA BEST BOOK FOR YOUNG ADULTS“One of the most inspiring books I have ever read.” –The Guardian | Ember |
| 9781402710629 | Classic Lateral Thinking Puzzles | Edward J. Harshman, Des MacHale, Paul Sloane | A man writes the same number, and nothing else, on 20 sheets of paper. Why? To figure this out--and hundreds of other mind-bending lateral puzzles, too--you'll have to really fire up your brain and imagination. At first, it may not seem as if there's enough information to come up with a solution. But look more closely; there's always more than meets the eye. Check your assumptions, ask good questions, retune your mind, separate the facts from the red herrings, and the answers will come. | Main Street |
| 9781719196642 | Complete Tales And Poems | Edgar Allen Poe | Createspace Independent Publishing Platform | |
| 9780825168840 | Daily Warm-Ups Pre-Algebra For Common Core State Standards | Betsy Berry, Ph.D. | Daily Warm-Ups: Pre-Algebra for Common Core State Standards features problems addressing the following topics: Operations and Algebraic Thinking; Number and Operations Fractions; Measurement and Data; Ratios and Proportional Relationships; The Number System; Expressions and Equations; Functions; Geometry; and Statistics and Probability.Materials include:Reproducible teacher bookMore than 100 varied problems directly addressing CCSSIncludes CD-ROM with detailed correlations, student problems ideal for projecting within the classroom, and an answer key | J Weston Walch |
| 9780825168833 | Daily Warm-Ups:Algebra For Common Core Standards | Betsy Berry Ph.D. | Daily Warm-Ups: Algebra for Common Core State Standards features problems addressing the following topics: Number and Quantity; Algebra; Functions; and Statistics and Probability.Materials include:Reproducible teacher bookMore than 100 varied problems directly addressing CCSSIncludes CD-ROM with detailed correlations, student problems ideal for projecting within the classroom, and an answer key | J Weston Walch |
| 9780760774274 | Dictionary Of Painters: From A To Z | Stefano Zuffi | Educational! | Barnes & Noble |
| 9780761945512 | Differentiated Instructional Strategies: One Size Doesn′T Fit All | Gayle H. Gregory, Carolyn M. Chapman | Teachers can use the practical process outlined in this book to adjust learning based on individual students′ knowledge, skills, experience, preferences, and needs to help every student in the classroom learn and succeed. | Corwin |
| 9780787977955 | Discipline In The Secondary Classroom: A Positive Approach To Behavior Management (Jossey-Bass Teacher, Grades 9-12) | Randall S. Sprick | Discipline and lack of motivation are two of the most vexing problems facing teachers today. Discipline in the Secondary Classroom, Second Edition gives high school teachers step-by-step guidance for designing a behavior management plan that will help prevent misbehavior and increase student motivation. The book is a hands-on resource that contains easy-to-implement strategies distilled from a research-based approach that is proactive, instructional, positive, and effective.Discipline in the Secondary Classroom, Second Edition is filled with forms, samples, and evaluation tools that will help teachers continually fine-tune their management plan to reach more students. Both new and seasoned teachers will find this book invaluable for designing a management plan that prevents problems, motivates students, and teaches them to behave responsibly. The book also equips the teacher with techniques for responding to misbehavior in a calm and consistent manner. | Jossey-Bass |
| 9780874775136 | Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain | Betty Edwards | Helps the reader gain access to right-brain functions, which affect artistic and creative abilities, by teaching the skills of drawing through unusual exercises designed to increase visual skills | Tarcher |
| 9781407114514 | Easy Questions, Evil Answers (Murderous Maths) | Kjartan Poskitt | Why do people think Friday 13th is unlucky? How can you make a liar tell the truth? How many people in the world share your birthday? "Easy Questions, Evil Answers" provides the answers to all these questions and more. It's the perfect laugh-out-loud, boredom busting read for everyone who's ever wondered just how many footballs you can fit in a swimming pool and how long it takes to count to a million. | Scholastic |
| 9780810959743 | Eat Your Peas: A Daisy Book | Kes Gray | Say hello to quick-witted, determined Daisy-sure to be the Junie B. Jones of the picture book set!Daisy is a sassy, know-it-all kid who likes to point out adult inconsistencies. Luckily she has a mom with a great sense of humor. These two are friends as well as parent and child, and their mutual teasing reflects a very current and common style of parenting.In the first book in this popular UK series, Eat Your Peas, Daisy and her mom engage in a dinnertime debate over Daisy's reluctance to eat her peas. Her mom, in humorous desperation, offers her increasingly outrageous incentives to eat the unpleasant vegetables until Daisy points out that Mom doesn't eat her brussels sprouts. This dinnertime battle of wills is sure to amuse children and parents alike, as it shows the power of vegetables to turn a meal into an epic struggle. | Abrams Books for Young Readers |
| 9780486252117 | Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles | Martin Gardner | Playing with mathematical riddles can be an intriguing and fun-filled pastime — as popular science writer Martin Gardner proves in this entertaining collection. Puzzlists need only an elementary knowledge of math and a will to resist looking up the answer before trying to solve a problem.Written in a light and witty style, Entertaining Mathematical Puzzles is a mixture of old and new riddles, grouped into sections that cover a variety of mathematical topics: money, speed, plane and solid geometry, probability, topology, tricky puzzles, and more. The probability section, for example, points out that everything we do, everything that happens around us, obeys the laws of probability; geometry puzzles test our ability to think pictorially and often, in more than one dimension; while topology, among the "youngest and rowdiest branches of modern geometry," offers a glimpse into a strange dimension where properties remain unchanged, no matter how a figure is twisted, stretched, or compressed.Clear and concise comments at the beginning of each section explain the nature and importance of the math needed to solve each puzzle. A carefully explained solution follows each problem. In many cases, all that is needed to solve a puzzle is the ability to think logically and clearly, to be "on the alert for surprising, off-beat angles...that strange hidden factor that everyone else had overlooked."Fully illustrated, this engaging collection will appeal to parents and children, amateur mathematicians, scientists, and students alike, and may, as the author writes, make the reader "want to study the subject in earnest" and explains "some of the inviting paths that wind away from the problems into lusher areas of the mathematical jungle." 65 black-and-white illustrations. | Dover Publications |
| 9781523504381 | Everything You Need To Ace Pre-Algebra And Algebra I In One Big Fat Notebook (Big Fat Notebooks) | Workman Publishing, Jason Wang | Millions and millions of BIG FAT NOTEBOOKS sold!Pre-Algebra & Algebra 1? No Problem!The BIG FAT NOTEBOOK covers everything you need to know during a year of Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 class, breaking down one big fat subject into accessible units. Including: The number system, ratios, and proportions, scientific notation, introduction and equations, functions, graphing a line, square roots and cube roots, polynomial operations, quadratic functions, and more.Study better with:-Mnemonic devices-Definitions-Diagrams-Educational doodles-and quizzes to recap it alland get better grades! | Workman Publishing Company |
| 9780545251624 | Fractions, Decimals, And Percents | Adler, David | Fractions, Decimals, And Percents Are Everywhere! Just Take A Stroll Around A County Fair. There Are Fractions At The Pie-eating Contest, Decimals In The Arcade, And Percent Signs In The Prize Booth. Each Time You See A Fraction, Decimal, Or Percent, You Can Easily Convert It Into Its Equivalent. This Entertaining Picture Book Is Sure To Earn 100% From Math Students And Teachers-- | Holiday House |
| 9780465025107 | Frames Of Mind: The Theory Of Multiple Intelligences | Howard E. Gardner | More than 200,00 copies of earlier editions have been sold; this reissue includes a new introduction by the author to mark the twenty-first birthday of this remarkable book. | Basic Books |
| 9781883672584 | G Is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book | David M. Schwartz | B is for Binary, F is for Fibonacci, P is for Probability... even a small sample begins to give you the idea that this is a math book unlike any other. Ranging freely from exponents to light-years to numbers found in nature, this smorgasbord of math concepts and trivia makes a perfect classroom companion or gift book for the budding young mathematician at home. Even the most reluctant math student will be drawn in by the author's trademark wit, Marissa Moss's quirky illustrations and funny captions, and the answers revealed in W is for " When are we ever gonna use this stuff, anyway?" Download the G is for Googol Teacher's Guide(300K) | Tricycle Press |
| 9781119278719 | Get Better Faster: A 90-Day Plan For Coaching New Teachers | Paul Bambrick-Santoyo | Effective and practical coaching strategies for new educators plus valuable online coaching toolsMany teachers are only observed one or two times per year on average―and, even among those who are observed, scarcely any are given feedback as to how they could improve. The bottom line is clear: teachers do not need to be evaluated so much as they need to be developed and coached.In Get Better Faster: A 90-Day Plan for Coaching New Teachers, Paul Bambrick-Santoyo shares instructive tools of how school leaders can effectively guide new teachers to success. Over the course of the book, he breaks down the most critical actions leaders and teachers must take to achieve exemplary results. Designed for coaches as well as beginning teachers, Get Better Faster is an integral coaching tool for any school leader eager to help their teachers succeed.Get Better Faster focuses on what's practical and actionable which makes the book's approach to coaching so effective. By practicing the concrete actions and micro-skills listed in Get Better Faster, teachers will markedly improve their ability to lead a class, producing a steady chain reaction of future teaching success.Though focused heavily on the first 90 days of teacher development, it's possible to implement this work at any time. Junior and experienced teachers alike can benefit from the guidance of Get Better Faster while at the same time closing existing instructional gaps.Featuring valuable and practical online training tools available at http://www.wiley.com/go/getbetterfaster, Get Better Faster provides agendas, presentation slides, a coach's guide, handouts, planning templates, and 35 video clips of real teachers at work to help other educators apply the lessons learned in their own classrooms.Get Better Faster will teach you: The core principles of coaching: Go Granular; Plan, Practice, Follow Up, Repeat; Make Feedback More Frequent Top action steps to launch a teacher’s development in an easy-to-read scope and sequence guideIt also walks you through the four phases of skill building: Phase 1 (Pre-Teaching): Dress Rehearsal Phase 2: Instant Immersion Phase 3: Getting into Gear Phase 4: The Power of DiscoursePerfect for new educators and those who supervise them, Get Better Faster will also earn a place in the libraries of veteran teachers and school administrators seeking a one-stop coaching resource. | Jossey-Bass |
| 9780452298743 | Girls Get Curves: Geometry Takes Shape | Danica McKellar | New York Times bestselling author Danica McKellar makes it a breeze to excel in high school geometry!Hollywood actress and math whiz Danica McKellar has completely shattered the “math nerd” stereotype. For years, she’s been showing girls how to feel confident and ace their math classes—with style! With Girls Get Curves, she applies her winning techniques to high school geometry, giving readers the tools they need to feel great and totally “get” everything from congruent triangles to theorems, and more. Inside you’ll find:• Time-saving tips and tricks for homework and tests• Illuminating practice problems (and proofs!) with detailed solutions• Totally relateable real-world examples• True stories from Danica’s own life as an actress and math student• A Troubleshooting Guide, for getting unstuck during even the trickiest proofs!With Danica as a coach, girls everywhere can stop hiding from their homework and watch their scores rise! | Plume |