The young ones

HOWARD, Mary

Literature & Fiction

Collins

Discovering the Body

Action & Adventure

Morrow

Discovering the Body is a gripping novel filled with psychological suspense, sensitivity, and emotional complexity. With this stunning debut, Mary Howard has crafted an electrifying and hauntingly evocative novel of truth and perception, of the ties we tell others-and the lies we tell ourselves.
Two years ago Linda Garbo left her graphic design job in Minneapolis to open a printmaking studio in a small town in Iowa with the encouragement of Luci Cole, a weaver and an old friend from art school. Arriving in Linden Grove for good, Linda agrees to stay with Luci and her boyfriend, Charlie, in their old farmhouse outside of town until the renovations to her new studio space are completed. But the following afternoon as she is driving down the long winding road toward Luci's house, Linda sees Luci's neighbor, Peter Garvey, walking out the front door-and when Linda enters the house a few minutes later, she discovers her friend's lifeless body on the kitchen floor.
Now, two years later, Peter Garvey has been convicted of Luci's murder. Linda is married to Charlie and living in the very house where Luci died. And she is convinced someone is following her. As she begins to confront her fears-approaching the man she believes is spying on her, visiting Peter Garvey in prison-she finally faces the cause for her frequent panic attacks: she was too traumatized by her discovery of Luci's body to be a reliable witness. And if she's identified the wrong man, the killer may still be close by, ready to react if she admits she might have made a mistake. Compelled to unravel the mystery surrounding Luci's final days, Linda finds that Luci was a master at weaving her true colors into a complex tapestry, preferring involvements that required secrecy.
A beautifully crafted tour de force of significant depth, passion, and power, Discovering the Body is a completely beguiling meditation on perception, loss, memory, and redemption whose conclusion proves to be as significantly haunting as it is satisfying.

Discovering the Body: A Novel

United States

Harper-perennial

Lorna Meredith, an ambitious and dedicated young career woman, finds her goals undermined by passions beyond her control

For Love or Money

St Martins Pr

To listen to Mary Howard's podcast "Principles for Success with RTI" click here. This book is desperately needed in districts and state departments everywhere. It is loaded with interventions that are right for kids and right for the educators who serve them. It profiles RTI as a framework for increasing intentional instruction...keeping the emphasis on knowledgeable educators rather than "programs." If this book could become a prerequisite to implementation, I fully believe that the goals of RTI may well be realized. Linda Hoyt Author of Revisit, Reflect, Retell, Updated Edition Response to Intervention (RTI) is here, but what do teachers need to know about it? As Mary Howard investigated that question, she was surprised: the more she knew about it, the more this "teacher's teacher" was excited by it. That's because RTI promises to use the great teaching you know to catch readers before they falter. With RTI from All Sides, she shows how to make RTI live up to its promise. In RTI from All Sides, Howard points the way toward thoughtful and effective RTI-and away from potentially dangerous, rigid implementations. She offers suggestions for instructional design, collaboration, and troubleshooting-even for avoiding mediocre RTI products. Most important, she demonstrates how to apply the principles you trust to RTI: <ul>
<li>teaching reading and writing in authentic ways to help students choose just-right books that set them up to read in and out of school </li> <li>using simple, ongoing assessments to know when to intensify instruction inside and outside the regular classroom </li> <li>differentiating reading instruction to maintain the flow between whole-class, small-group, and one-on-one instruction while meeting specific students' needs </li> <li>designing interventions to amplify instruction instead of sidelining students to skill-and-drill that takes them further from engaged, proficient reading </li> <li>coordinating efforts within and between instructional supports to emphasize acceleration through the targeted instruction students need to succeed. </li> </ul>
In addition, Howard includes helpful questions that lead book study groups to a better understanding of RTI, its structure, its implementation, and its daily application. RTI has the potential to return instructional decision-making to teachers and to galvanize schools to design effective practices for helping all readers achieve-especially those who struggle. Read RTI from All Sides and get the information you need to create a safety net that can save struggling readers before the learning gap widens forever.

RTI from All Sides: What Every Teacher Needs to Know

Education & Teaching

Hoyt, Linda

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

"If you're a teacher trying to incorporate RTI into your day-to-day classroom practices, but you don't quite know how to manage it, then this book will be a cherished, well-guarded resource you'll want to chain to your desk." -Sharon Taberski How do I keep the rest of the class engaged while I teach small groups? "In the course of implementing RTI, teachers invariably search for ways to promote literacy learning and actively engage students in rich teacher-supported, peer-supported, and independent experiences. They need easy-to-adapt, open-ended options that will support and extend learning in any setting or context." -Mary Howard In her first book, RTI from All Sides, Mary Howard alerted teachers to the merits and potential missteps of Response to Intervention. In this follow-up guide, Mary provides teachers with the flexible literacy activities they need to move ahead with RTI and implement effective differentiated instruction in a variety of settings-including whole-group, guided practice, small-group, partner work, and independent learning. Through these instructional and reinforcement activities teachers gain the freedom to work with small groups of students and the confidence that all their students are on-task with meaningful, high-level work. "We can't warehouse students with decontextualized worksheets that promote passive learning and waste valuable time," Mary explains. &amp;qhot;I developed response forms as a vehicle for thinking using teacher modeling, partner work, and collaboration that revolves around rich dialogue. These concrete tools are deeply rooted in research-based reading, writing, and discussion practices that serve as a springboard for learning." Each form and assessment sheet is carefully designed to cultivate daily rituals that introduce and support new learning while creating opportunities to promote student independence, encourage personal accountability, build long-term word knowledge, and make reading more purposeful and thoughtful. While ideal for tier 1 classroom instruction, these forms can be easily adjusted for tiers 2 and 3 when more intensity and teacher support is needed. Building on her long-held belief that the key to RTI success is knowledgeable and empowered teachers, Mary Howard's Moving Forward with RTI is designed to help you manage your class using a variety of interactive teaching and learning tools within and beyond the literacy block. The forms in Moving Forward with RTI include: <ul>
<li>Daily Choice Folder </li> <li>Golden Book Basket Response</li> <li>Student Anchor Chart </li> <li>Personal Pondering Pad </li> <li>Focus Cards </li> <li>Summary Preview </li> <li>Dictionary Redefinition </li> <li>Adopt-a-Word </li> <li>"Living" Vocabulary </li> <li>Stoplight Words </li> <li>Five-by-Five Partner Reading </li> <li>My Sharing Bookmark </li> <li>Vocabulary Jigsaw</li> </ul> ...and many more "kid-tested" resources to fill your RTI instructional toolbox.

Moving Forward with RTI: Reading and Writing Activities for Every Instructional Setting and Tier: Small-G roup Instruction, In

Taberski, Sharon

Boynton/Cook

"We often talk about the importance of, and benefits of focused intentional teaching. Mary Howard is not only the champion of such instruction, but she coaches the rest of us, breaking it down so we can all do great work that truly matters." Gail Boushey and Joan Moser (the Sisters), authors of The Daily Five In this valuable resource for teachers, Mary Howard shares a step-by-step process for focusing on the literacy work that matters in any effective literacy design-including schools implementing the Common Core State Standards and an RTI model-to identify good work, to celebrate great work, and to accommodate high quality literacy practices. Throughout Good to Great Teaching, Mary describes spotlight teachers who will guide you through a process of evaluating, adjusting, and elevating your teaching. Personal reflection tools are included to help you alleviate anything that deters your efforts to accomplish what you already do well and move your teaching to even higher levels. Mary will take you into real classrooms where practical ideas rooted in best practice offer a clear understanding of what great work can feel like, look like, and sound like. As you work through this reflective process on your own or with colleagues, you will: <ul>
<li>build a common understanding of the quality of great work</li> <li>generate vision statements and overarching goals to guide your literacy design</li> <li>identify how to sustain great work to keep the momentum going.</li> </ul>
No matter where you are in your teaching career, the real key to great work is what you bring to the table. Let Mary lead you as you move from good to great teaching so you can focus on the literacy work that really matters.

Good to Great Teaching: Focusing on the Literacy Work that Matters

In discussing the moral and practical dilemmas posed by the malnourished children in Mount Kilimanjaro, the authors explore the shame associated with child hunger in relation to social organization, colonial history and global economy.

Hunger and Shame: Child Malnutrition and Poverty on Mount Kilimanjaro

Politics & Social Sciences

Millard, Ann V.

Anthropology

Routledge

In discussing the moral and practical dilemmas posed by the malnourished children in Mount Kilimanjaro, the authors explore the shame associated with child hunger in relation to social organization, colonial history and global economy.

Hunger and Shame

William Morrow

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