Alaska, that place of superlatives, harbors only 16 of the United States' more than 500 national wildlife refuges--but those Alaskan refuges, all but two of them roadless, add up to an area half the size of Texas, with one refuge alone taking in more land than the state of West Virginia. The states of the Pacific Northwest comprise another 38 refuges, all but 10 of them open to public visitation. The refuges protect an astonishing range of plant and animal species, from the marine mammals and shorebirds of Washington's San Juan Islands to the spotted owls, jumping mice, and bobcats of Oregon's Willamette Valley. Naturalists Loren MacArthur and Debbie Miller point the way to these essential places, offering notes on when and where to travel and what to do and see when you arrive. --Gregory McNamee

Audubon Guide to the National Wildlife Refuges: Alaska & the Pacific Northwest: Alaska, Oregon, Washington

History

Mac Arthur, Loren

Miller, Debbie

Americas

St. Martin's: Griffin

"This is a work of incredible scope: adventurous, ingratiating, challenging, genuinely groundbreaking, and gorgeously written. It will knock the socks off this profession." -Harvey Daniels Author of Subjects Matter and Content-Area Writing The renaissance in comprehension instruction launched by Mosaic of Thought has led to changes in hundreds of thousands of classrooms, where teachers now model reading strategies, and students probe meaning more deeply. But no book in the field has satisfactorily answered the question: What does it really mean to comprehend? In To Understand, Ellin Oliver Keene not only explores this important question, but reveals what teachers can do to encourage all students to engage in deep understanding far more consistently than before. In discovering what's really behind comprehension, To Understand goes well beyond comprehension strategy instruction. Keene identifies specific Dimensions and Outcomes of Understanding-characteristics identified in readers with a highly developed ability to make sense of text-to help you rethink what comprehension is. She demonstrates how to leverage the Dimensions and Outcomes into relevant, provocative, memorable instruction. To Understand proposes a model that incorporates all aspects of literacy instruction-word learning and comprehension-and describes how teachers can focus on what matters most in literacy content. Keene shows that when teachers target the most essential content, they have the time to help every student engage more deeply with texts and discover a passion for reading and learning. The model is founded on four simple, but powerful concepts: <ul>
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Focus on what's important by teaching vital concepts in depth rather than skimming over nonessential skills </li> <li>
Use research-based teaching and learning strategies, including proven-effective comprehension and language-based strategies, then taking them further by showing students how the strategies lead them to a fuller understand of a text </li> <li>
Teach the essential concepts over a long period of time so that children have an opportunity to learn not only a comprehension strategy, but to explore where that strategy leads in their understanding </li> <li>
Give students numerous opportunities to apply the concepts in a variety of texts and contexts. </li> </ul> With To Understand in hand, you'll find new ways to draw out the innate intellectual interest in every student and spark dramatic improvements in literacy learning and comprehension, even among students who struggle. You'll see that by rethinking what it means to understand-by teaching children the Outcomes and Dimensions of understanding-you can help students exceed expectations while broadening your vision of their abilities, their capacity, and their energy for learning. There's still more-much more-to learn about comprehension. Read To Understand, join Ellin Oliver Keene, and discover that what's at the very core of comprehension can not only reinvigorate your teaching but take your students to new, uncharted levels of learning.

To Understand: New Horizons in Reading Comprehension

Keene, Ellin Oliver

Business & Money

Heinemann

"The real genius of this book is that it is written by teachers, for teachers. All of the authors in this book know what classrooms are like. This means that authenticity and integrity pervade every chapter in the book. Teachers will immediately sense this authenticity on their way to realizing that the book offers an endless supply of useful suggestions." -From the Coda by P. David Pearson For those of us who teach comprehension strategies, Comprehension Going Forward is as near to the ultimate PD experience as we can get. Imagine a professional learning community where you could sit in as... <ul>
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Ellin Keene and Debbie Miller swap best practices </li> <li>
Stephanie Harvey and Harvey "Smokey" Daniels compare instruction across the grades </li> <li>
Anne Goudvis and Tanny McGregor share ways to infuse comprehension into every subject area </li> <li>
Cris Tovani and Nancy Commins apply the strategies to help struggling readers, English learners, and special-needs students. </li> </ul>
 In Comprehension Going Forward, you'll meet up with 17 leading practitioners and researchers for an energetic, personal, and frequently irreverent conversation on what great comprehension instruction looks like, what an amazing range of applications it has for all students, and what we can do better. Not only do figures such as Susan Zimmerman and P. David Pearson include their own chapters, but, like any exciting conversation, they point out their favorite parts of one another's chapters-highlighting discussion topics for teacher study groups along the way. Read Comprehension Going Forward and RSVP to a get-together that no one who teaches reading will want to miss. Enter this powerful, lively conversation about how we can improve all readers' comprehension today and join some of your favorite authors as they reach for a tomorrow where every child reads with deep understanding. "Each author takes the comprehension strategies as a starting point, and then reaches out toward a different set of applications, extensions, and practices. But everyone is connected by the research base on comprehension instruction and by our common goal: to provide every child in America with an "All-Access Pass" to literacy." -From the editor's introduction by Harvey "Smokey" Daniels

Comprehension Going Forward: Where We Are and What's Next

Daniels, Harvey "Smokey"

Bennett, Samantha

Harvey, Stephanie

Goudvis, Anne

Tovani, Cris

Zimmermann, Susan

Hutchins, Chryse

Pearson, P. David

Buhrow, Brad

McGregor, Tanny

Cervetti, Gina

Blauman, Leslie

Larner, Marjorie

Upczak Garcia, Anne

Commins, Nancy L.

Reference

"What if there was a time when things slowed down? No rotations, activities, or worksheets-just you, your kids, and books. Would you take it?" -Debbie Miller and Barbara Moss We know children learn to read by reading. Is independent reading valuable enough to use precious classroom minutes on? Yes, writes Debbie Miller and Barbara Moss, but only if that time is purposeful. DEAR and SSR aren't enough. Research shows that independent reading must be accompanied by intentional instruction and conferring. Debbie and Barbara clear a path for you to take informed action that makes a big difference, with: <ul>
<li>a rationale for independent reading that's worth finding the time for</li> <li>research evidence on its effectiveness and instructional best practices</li> <li>a framework with 10 teaching tactics for starting and sustaining success.</li> </ul>
"When we set children loose day after day with no focus or support, it can lead to fake reading and disengagement," write Debbie and Barbara. "It's our job to equip children with the tools they need when we're not there." Read No More Independent Reading Without Support and find out how. About the Not This, But That Series No More Independent Reading Without Support is part of the Not This, But That series, edited by Nell K. Duke and Ellin Oliver Keene. It helps teachers examine common, ineffective classroom practices and replace them with practices supported by research and professional wisdom. In each book a practicing educator and an education researcher identify an ineffective practice; summarize what the research suggests about why; and detail research-based, proven practices to replace it and improve student learning. Read a sample chapter from No More Independent Reading Without Support.

No More Independent Reading Without Support (NOT THIS, BUT THAT)

Education & Teaching

Moss, Barbara

Duke, Nell K.

Schools & Teaching

No More Independent Reading Without Support (Print eBook Bundle)

Comprehension Going Forward (Print eBook Bundle): Where We Are and What's Next

Daniels, Harvey

What if... Every year, beloved teacher and author Debbie Miller commits to trying something new. She asks a "beautiful question" that pushes her to see new possibilities and put children at the center of her teaching. She asks, "What if we did it this way?" "When we do, we're present in our teaching," she says. "We're strong enough to set aside judgment and discomfort and choose to focus on how to make things better." New opportunities for teaching and learning In What's the Best That Could Happen?, Debbie confronts a challenge all teachers face: the feeling of being stuck and the fear of trying something new. She explores how questions help us look beyond the limitations of what we've done and discover powerful new opportunities for teaching and learning. Each chapter digs into a question about teaching from Debbie's work with teachers and children across the country: <ul>
<li>What if each day's teaching focused on children's agency?</li> <li>What if we made what children make and do our priority?</li> <li>What if our classroom environment and routines offered choice?</li> <li>What if we owned the units we're asked to teach?</li> <li>What if read aloud sustained children's independent thinking?</li> </ul>
 You'll find practical insights and critical understandings that will benefit you and your children. More importantly, you'll learn to ask your own beautiful questions, grapple with the messiness that surfaces, and find answers that inspire something new and worthy in your teaching. Join the What's the Best That Could Happen? Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/WhatsTheBest

What's the Best That Could Happen?: New Possibilities for Teachers & Readers

"I'm the kind of kid who builds things," reflects seven-year-old Jude. "I'm a builder, a doer, a maker of things." How does Jude possess such a clear sense of self at this tender age? And what viable actions might teachers take to awaken, nurture, and develop learner identity and a sense of agency that lives within Jude and every child? Debbie Miller and Emily Callahan believe that it all begins with choice. In "I'm the kind of kid who...," they provide a framework for introducing choice making in small, medium, and large ways through "invitations" that ask children to consider: <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>What if you could choose where you want to work?</li> <li>What if you could choose your own materials?</li> <li>What if you could choose to learn more about yourself as a reader?</li> <li>What if you could choose to do what readers do in the world?</li> </ul> <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"> <li>What if you could choose what you want to explore, investigate and study?</li> <li>What if you could choose how to share your thinking and learning?</li> </ul> Debbie and Emily use a predictable structure to describe each invitation from beginning to end, offering practical suggestions for how to fit invitations within the day and across the year. "There are no magical programs to call upon to develop learner identity and agency" write Debbie and Emily, "because the truth is, children and their teachers don't need them! What kids really need are invitations from their teachers to discover themselves for themselves, invitations that encourage them to find out even more about who they are, how they learn and what they need to thrive."

I’m the Kind of Kid Who . . .: Invitations That Support Learner Identity and Agency

Self-Help

Callahan, Emily

Motivational

Here is the book that answers the age-old question: What should I bring? Foodies Rae Katherine Eighmey and Debbie Miller first combed through hundreds of folksy cookbooks—often spiral-bound or homemade—compiled by church and community groups around the Midwest. Then they tested hundreds of the most popular recipes before winnowing the list down to 150 of the tastiest crowd-pleasing dishes: treats such as Swedish Tea Ring, Oven Barbecue Spareribs, Corn and Tomato Casserole, Refrigerator Cookies, Blueberry Buckle, and Party Punch. Recipes are organized by course, so it's as easy as pie for the reader to find the perfect dish for the long community table. Eight 1950s menus-with-recipes for gatherings such as a Card Party and a Ladies Club Luncheon will help today's savvy host create memorable retro gatherings for friends and family. Food and entertaining lore gleaned from the cookbooks and the authors' recollections of growing up in the Fabulous Fifties transport readers back to a time when shared food and hospitality reigned supreme.

Potluck Paradise: Favorite Fare from Church and Community Cookbooks

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Eighmey, Rae Katherine

Regional & International

Minnesota Historical Society Press

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

Reading With Meaning: Teaching Comprehension In The Primary Grades (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Children's Books

Turtleback Books

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