Reading Is Not A Spectator Sport

For grades 2-8. Describes activities aimed at involving students in reading, using activites centered around sports books, with the teacher as coach, librarian as general manager and parents as talent scouts.

Pelton shows you how to keep children from striking out in the reading game, offering hundreds of ideas and activities to promote reading. Reading centers, cooperative learning and literature, and thematic units using reading are just a few of the topics covered.

“A blueprint and a guidebook to help us all get involved.”—Senator John Kerry

Are you ready to get in the game? We choose to be successful in business and in life the moment we decide not to settle for mediocrity -- the moment we are prepared to step out of our comfort zone and take action. In this life-changing book, international keynote speaker Charles Marcus shares with you his incredible personal and professional experiences. His hard-won lessons have contributed to his remarkable transformation from a person with a severe stuttering disability for most of his life, to an award-winning sales professional. This book will help you create the game plan, shape the strategies, and find the discipline to complete the plays necessary for success. Discover how to: Treat every setback as a valuable learning experience; Surround yourself with positive people; Set goals that work; Invest in your professional development; Believe in your own success; Cross the finish line on your own terms; Be prepared to accept all challenges and pursue the success you desire!

After a lifetime of adventure, award-winning writer Bob Cox tells his own thrilling life story. Travel with him from Santa Monica, to rural Idaho, to a stretch in Japan with the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War, befort he settles in Southern California. Enjoy with him a passion for skiing and the joys of writing about the winter sport, mostly in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Experience with him the challenges of teaching elementary and middle school classes, as well as his transition to school administration, capped by a year as Interim Superintendent for a small school district. Share his joy of playing and coaching sports, and raising three kids. Fight the challenges of addiction and cancer with him in this first-person story.

An invaluable work for people who need to understand statistics and utilise their results. The book is not technical: its purpose is to teach the reader how to understand and apply statistics. Most of the examples are from education but people in all fields that involve the use of statistics will find this book indispensable. Written with great clarity this is a first-rate statistics book for the non-statistician.

For grades 2-8. Describes activities aimed at involving students in reading, using activites centered around sports books, with the teacher as coach, librarian as general manager and parents as talent scouts.