Every Parent Matters: A guide to great parent-teacher relationships

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Baker, Linda

Psychology & Counseling

David Fulton Publishers

This book reports the results of a five-year longitudinal study of children's early literacy development. The children attended pre-kindergarten in Baltimore public schools at the study's inception and completed third grade at its end. Tracing these children's developing literacy competencies over the years, the study makes an important contribution to understanding how best to facilitate literacy attainment for children of diverse backgrounds.

Becoming Literate in the City: The Baltimore Early Childhood Project

Serpell, Robert

Sonnenschein, Susan

Cambridge University Press

The Bridge Between Worlds: The Miracle of Following the Heart

A Bridge Between Worlds is a story about many bridges, between many worlds. It is a bridge between Chinese and American culture, a bridge between two generations, a bridge between the physical and non-physical worlds, a bridge between this life and past lives and a bridge between the mind and the heart. Writing this book has been a labour of love. By following the voice of Spirit, author Linda A. Baker, traveled to China to find her Chinese son. This story shows the power of past life soul connections. It is a story of hope and creating your hearts desires. In this book you will learn that when you are willing to trust and follow you heart miracles happen. But most of all this is a story about the greatest love there is-the love between the soul and The Divine.

Parenting & Relationships

iUniverse

Developing Engaged Readers in School and Home Communities

This book comprises a synthesis of current directions in reading research, theory, and practice unified by what has been referred to as the engagement perspective of reading. This perspective guides the research agenda of the National Reading Research Center (NRRC), a consortium of the University of Georgia, University of Maryland, and affiliated scholars. A major goal of the book is to introduce reading researchers to the engagement perspective as defined by the NRRC and to illustrate its potential to integrate the cognitive, social, and motivational dimensions of reading and reading instruction. Engaged readers are viewed as motivated, strategic, knowledgeable, and socially interactive. They read widely for a variety of purposes and capitalize on situations having potential to extend literacy. The book is organized into four sections representing key components of the NRRC research agenda and the engagement perspective. This perspective emphasizes contexts that influence engaged reading. Accordingly, the first section of the volume focuses on the social and cultural contexts of literacy development, with chapters devoted to examining home influences, home-school connections, and the special challenges facing ethnic minorities. The engagement perspective also implies greater attention to the role of motivational and affective dimensions in reading development than traditional views of reading. Therefore, the second section examines motivational theory and its implications for reading engagement, with special attention to characteristics of classroom contexts that promote motivation in reading. The engagement perspective embraces innovative instructional contexts that address the cognitive, social, and motivational aspects of reading. Thus, the third section includes chapters on current directions in promoting children's learning from text, on the value of an integrated curriculum in promoting reading engagement, and on the challenges of assessing students' development as engaged readers. Finally, the broader conception of reading implied by the engagement perspective requires an expanded array of research approaches, sensitive to the complex and interacting contexts in which children develop literacy. The concluding section focuses on these important contemporary issues in literacy research and educational research, with chapters examining the variety of alternative modes of inquiry gaining prominence in literacy research, teacher inquiry, and ethical issues of collaboration between university and teacher researchers. Intended for university-based researchers, graduate students, and classroom teachers, this volume brings together researchers who think about students and their literacy development in school and home communities in distinctly different ways. The cooperative and collaborative inquiry presented contributes to a richer understanding of the many factors influencing engaged reading.

History

Asia

Routledge

Shows, describes, and lists current values for toys made by a variety of American manufacturers

Modern Toys: American Toys 1930-1980

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Antiques & Collectibles

Collector+books

A user's guide to integrating essential oils and hypnosis. Recommended for anyone who wants to improve effects of trance work or meditation, hypnotherapy, self-hypnosis, or aromatherapy. Includes quick reference charts and scripts.

Alchemical Scents: Integrating Hypnosis and Essential Oils

Haggard, Patricia

Religion & Spirituality

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

This is a story of one woman's fight to recover from mental illness. Diagnosed as Schizophrenic in 1986, the author writes about the struggles of poverty, abandonment and hopelessness that can come with the disease. Now living on her own, she credits faith as the thing that has helped her survive.

I Can't Tell It All: The Life Story of Linda Baker

Self-Help

Motivational

AuthorHouse

Cake Girl is the story of a sweet-toothed dental hygienist who recommends bakeries instead of toothpaste. Linda’s mouthwatering adventures take us along on her journey. We get to meet her as a young baker, have a front row seat as she turns into a bakery owner imposter (in order to catch the attention of a famous food critic), and follow her life’s twists and turns as she moves towards her unrelenting quest for her own wedding cake. Filled with recipes and love, Linda's story captures the rewards of having your cake and eating it too!

Cake Girl: One (Reasonably) Sane Woman's Quest for the Biggest Slice, the Sweetest Frosting, and the Perfect Wedding Cake

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Intimate Conversations With God Almighty

Baker, Brenda

Xulon Pr

It's Okay, She's Just Gone Home: The Remarkable Legacy of a Practical Sage

Americas

Linda Baker Creates

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