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The Lexile Framework for Reading. Home | www.delanceyplace.com | eclectic excerpts delivered to your email every day from editor Richard Vague. Today's encore selection -- from Quantum: Einstein, Bohr, and the Great Debate about the Nature of Reality by Manjit Kumar. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), the physicist who developed the theory of relativity, was born and spent his earliest years in Germany: " 'The people of Ulm are mathematicians' was the unusual medieval motto of the city on the banks of the Danube in the south-western corner of Germany where Albert Einstein was born.

It was an apt birthplace on 14 March 1879 for the man who would become the epitome of scientific genius. The back of his head was so large and distorted, his mother feared her newborn son was deformed. "In October 1885, with the last of the private Jewish schools in Munich closed for more than a decade, the six-year-old Einstein was sent to the nearest school. "As a schoolboy he preferred solitary pursuits and enjoyed nothing more than constructing ever-taller houses of cards. Jr. Books iPad App for Kids - JibJab. Word Finding Difficulties in the Classroom. Clinical reports and anecdotal evidence suggest that certain behaviors in the classroom may indicate that students are having word finding difficulties. This section of the web site presents examples of these behaviors. Students who display these behaviors in the classroom may benefit from deep assessment and follow up intervention in word finding.

Click here to obtain procedures to obtain classroom based observations of learners' word finding skills in the classroom. Classroom behaviors that may suggest word finding difficulties are presented according to the classrom and academic activities below. Word Finding Behaviors Displayed in Oral Questioning Word Finding Behaviors Displayed in Class Discussion, Cooperative Groups, or in Conversations Word Finding Behaviors Displayed in Reading Word Finding Behaviors Displayed in Writing Activities.

{*style:<b> </b>*} The student has a long delay and does not give a response or produces a substitution similar in meaning or sound form to the answer. What Happens To Your Body If You Drink A Coke Right Now? Fiction VS Nonfiction Jeopardy. 8 Online Libraries For Students, Teachers, And Researchers. Have you grown tired asking Google to find eBooks for you? Then why not directly go to online libraries with thousands and millions of collections entirely focused for books?

That’s the reason why I gathered the 8 best online libraries that students, teachers, and researches can use freely. Millions of books, hundreds of categories, and definitely for free! Enjoy! 1. To start our list, Project Gutenberg was founded by Michael S. 2. The Free Library contains several millions of articles and books, with the topic of Business having over 15 million articles and books in their library. 3. Although Planet eBook is not really a large library of free books, it makes up for it by focusing on classic books and novels ranging from George Orwell’s 1984 to Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights. 4. 5.

Yep, Wikibooks is one of Wikipedia’s sister sites, and is run completely ad-free and mostly by volunteers. 6. 7. 8. If you liked this, please share! Books by reading level. Chapter Books | Grass Roots Press. Literacy Coaching Connects Reading, Writing, and Study Skills. 40 Inspiring Quotes About Reading From Writers. NaNoWriMo may be over and our schedules may be filling up with holiday parties and family visits, but despite all that, December is one of our favorite months to curl up and read. If you need a little extra inspiration in this most hectic of months, however, never fear. To spur you on, we’ve collected a few inspiring quotes about reading by some people who read quite a lot — the authors themselves.

Click through to read forty of our favorite quotes from writers about books and reading, and let us know if we’ve missed any of your own favorite inspirational declarations in the comments! “When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes.” — Erasmus “We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. “If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. “Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.” — Joyce Carol Oates. Adventures in Nonfiction: A Guided Inquiry Journey. ReadWriteThink couldn't publish all of this great content without literacy experts to write and review for us. If you've got lessons plans, videos, activities, or other ideas you'd like to contribute, we'd love to hear from you. More Find the latest in professional publications, learn new techniques and strategies, and find out how you can connect with other literacy professionals.

More Teacher Resources by Grade Your students can save their work with Student Interactives. More Home › Classroom Resources › Lesson Plans Lesson Plan Overview From Theory to Practice These activities provide a foundation for using nonfiction resources for developing and answering questions about gathered information. Back to top In Literacy at the Crossroads Regie Routman reminds us of the importance of "a greater use of multiple texts in reading instruction," to include not only narrative texts, but informational texts as well. Further Reading Routman, Regie. 1996. Cunningham, Patricia, and Richard Allington. 1994. Just Read Now!