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Remediating Reading Difficulties
Sharon J Crawley and King Merritt
Excerpts at Amazon list the titles of the book's 9 units, 31 chapters and 9 appendices.
Units include "Vocabulary" and "Speakers of Other Languages."
Chapters include "Decreasing Faulty Habits," "Memory Aids," and "Suggestions for Parents."
Appendices include "Common Phonograms" and "Developing a Teaching Kit."

Remediating Reading Difficulties has numerous practical, easy-to-implement activities for regular and special education as well as for the prevention on reading problems. In the area of reading comprehension alone, there are over 100 activities. The organization of the book makes it a quick reference tool. It presents learning theories with practical applications for basic skills to higher-level skills. One of the children's books listed in the chapter on "Memory Aids" is Little Lemon: Activities for Developing Motivation and Memory Skills.

Discipline Without Stress Punishments or Rewards : How Teachers and Parents Promote Responsibility & Learning
Marvin L. Marshall
Stephen R. Covey, Ph.D., author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, is one of many people who has given enthusiastic reviews at Amazon.com of this book. Marvin Marshal draws on his experiences in elementary and high schools, counseling, and teacher education, doctoral work in curriculum, counseling, and instruction. The book is rated highly by teachers and parents of children from preschool through high school. It helps us break out of the cycle of punishments and rewards and gives practical strategies for helping students develop age appropriate responsibilities for their own behaviors.

The Busy Educator's Guide To The World Wide Web (2nd Edition)
Marjan Glavac
This guide is helpful for parents, other educators, and children. See URL's of sites for educational standards and for elementary, middle school, high school, and colleges. Sites are listed in subject categories including art, ESL/foreign languages, special education, technology, etc. Read information about Internet projects, web site construction including rationale for schools having websites, and effective web searching.

Learning to Learn: Strengthening Study Skills and Brain Power
Gloria Frender
See 12 sample pages at Amazon.com. This has many practical hints, methods, and resources.

How to Reach & Teach All Students in the Inclusive Classroom: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Lessons, and Activities for Teaching Students with Diverse Learning Needs
Sandra F. Rief, Julie A. Heimburge
In many school systems, the classroom teacher and the parents have one or two meetings a year with the special education team. Here they gain insights from the team and from the psychological evaluation. These evaluations are often locked away for the sake of privacy at school although parents may have a copy. Access to the information is not easy. This book makes it easy to find many helpful ideas for helping all children in the regular classroom.

Teacher Smart!: 125 Tested Techniques for Classroom Management & Control
George Watson
Rather than getting bogged down in theory, this book offers practical suggestions which you can adapt to your own style. The focus is for younger children but the concepts can be used with older children.

Teacher Therapy
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Judy Domeny Bowen
One survival strategy for teachers is to find time to release some tension through laughter. You can sing about your work even if you can't whistle while working. Some of the songs on this CD are "Faculty Meetings," "Excuses," "Dress Code," "These Things We Always Say," and "Happy Snow Day." The songs are light hearted except for the deeply touching last song, "Brandon Moved Away." Read more about it.

More Teacher Therapy: Teacher of the Year
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Judy Domeny Bowen
This recording contains 15 funny, poignant, and downright honest songs for teachers. It includes a great back-to-school anthem, a terrific retirement song, and a toe-tapping, gospel-style, put-a-smile-on-your-face song entitled "That'd Be All Right With My Soul!" Available in CD format, this recording is a must-have for teachers of any grade level and subject. Each CD includes a booklet of song lyrics. Read more about it.

Teacher's Time Management Survival Kit: Ready-To-Use Techniques and Materials
P. Susan Mamchak, Steven R. Mamchak
This book is written by someone who understands the numerous demands on a teacher's time. It is a quick reference book which includes form letters.

Young Children Re-invent Arithmetic: Implications of Piaget's Theory (Early Childhood Education Series)
Constance Kamii, Leslie Baker Housman
Many parents and teachers have enjoyed using this book to teach number concepts and problem solving. There are directions for making games for teaching.

Classroom Discipline Problem Solver: Ready-To-Use Techniques & Materials for Managing All Kinds of Behavior Problems
George Watson
The title sums it up well. The suggestions are quick and effective. Individuality of teachers and students is respected by offering several suggestions as a situation is presented. The suggestions help students develop responsibility for their own behaviors.

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The Elementary School Librarian's Survival Guide
Barbara Farley
Bannister and Janice B. Carlile This is a complete resource for the new or experienced librarian. It contains everything you will need to organize the school library. It includes many forms, charts, letters, and patterns to help you. Topics such as physical organization of the library, how to build support for your programs, discipline, storytimes, and booktalks are just a few of the many subjects covered in this book. (206 pages - softbound)

The New Elementary School Librarian's Almanac
Barbara Farley Bannister
This gives the new or experienced librarian ideas to use for each month of the school year. Ideas to use for story times, library skills, running reading programs, helping children write and "publish" books, and learning games are just a part of this many-faceted book. September's chapter includes many ideas on how to get the school year off to a good start, January's chapter gives you ideas on how to keep in touch with teacher needs while the chapter for May and June gives ideas on inventory, ordering, and summer reading programs. Each chapter gives ideas for learning games, bulletin boards, storytimes, etc. based on the month of the year. Ideas for contest corners, art corners, and nonfiction corners are also explored. The many suggestions in this book will be helpful in making your library an exciting and fun place for the students in your school. (244p hardbound)

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