Beach Volleyball Is No Joke

Tyler spends all his time playing jokes on his teammates. Meanwhile, his beach volleyball skills suffer.

Tyler's parents are tired of his recklessness. Not only are they refusing to replace the skateboard he broke, they are making him pay for other things he has destroyed around the house. Will Tyler get his hands on a board before the big contest, or will he have the no-skateboard blues?

One of the few organized team sports that can be enjoyed either indoors or against a backdrop of sun and surf on the beach, volleyball has become a beloved game around the world. International competitions have fueled volleyball’s global appeal and earned the sport a dedicated fan base. Readers will learn about the history of this exciting game, how to coordinate various positions, formations, and moves for successful play, and the stories of some of its greatest indoor and outdoor players.

Elementary-school students need to learn to write explanatory/informational, argument, and narrative text types and respond to literature, both for standardized tests and, more importantly, real-world writing. With a balanced literacy approach, Wolfe provides core instruction, teaching strategies, and mini-lessons on these text types, each of which can be delivered across content areas or as a complete unit of instruction. Mini-lessons are provided for grades 3-5 and include materials lists, overviews, planning tips, procedures (including modeling, guided practice, and independent practice opportunities), reading connections, formative assessments, and reproducible graphic organizers for scaffolding. Prerequisite skill overviews and rubrics--both analytic for formative assessments and holistic for summative assessments--are also provided for each unit to simplify your teaching and ensure student success.

For more than a decade, the editors of Women’s Health have been researching, analyzing, and evaluating every weight-loss technique on the planet. They've tested every workout, sampled every food, studied every bit of research, and consulted the top exercise and nutrition experts in the world. Now that expertise is gathered in one place. Packed with delicious recipes, hundreds of helpful tips, and weekly workout plans, this is the ultimate guide to a slimmer, sexier body. The Women’s Health Diet is jam-packed with hundreds of revolutionary fitness and nutrition tips including: The 80 Percent Rule: Why cheating on your diet isn’t just okay—It’s essential! 24 on-the-spot food fixes that will help you beat everything from big-meeting jitters to big-date angst Age-specific strategies to maximize progress, whether you’re 20, 30, 40, 50, or beyond! Dozens of mouthwatering recipes that satisfy and fight fat fast!

Empowering Students for the Future: Using the Right Questions to Teach the Value of Passion, Success, and Failure arms educators with the tools to teach what we all wish we had learned in school. You will uncover how to help your students think deeper, redefine failure, and authentically create their definition of success. Author Eric Yuhasz offers a variety of practical ideas throughout, including rapid-fire questions and a bowl meeting structure to help students find their passions; activities to help students address negativity from social media plus negative, self-inflicted mantras they may unconsciously be following; a chart that enables students to see their progress toward achieving their definition of success; tips for discussing value, sacrifice, self-discipline, motivation, and the tyranny of low expectations; plus ideas for helping students embrace failure as a steppingstone toward learning and triumph. With clear strategies in each chapter, this unique book will show you how your learners can truly map out a happier, healthier, more successful future.

Barbara never thought twice about the horrible conditions that exist in this country's prisons until she got sent there. Lucky to get out alive--many of her friends didn't--she has written a gripping account of this terrifying experience.