books by Zephyr Press     books:       The Ultimate Guided Reading How-To Book: Building Literacy Through Small-Group Instruction5 reviews Gail Saunders-Smith Zephyr Press, 2002 Created especially for classroom teachers Expertly written by experienced reading teacher and educational consultant Gail Saunders-Smith, The Ultimate Guided Reading How-To Book: Building Literacy Through Small-Group Instruction is an impressive and "user friendly" resource created especially for classroom teachers and offering them practical, effective strategies for coordinating their efforts to guide different levels of readers to ...             The MI Strategy Bank: 800+ Multiple Intelligence Ideas for the Elementary Classroom Ellen Arnold Zephyr Press, 2007 Elementary educators learn to recognize how students learn best—and adjust their lesson plans accordingly—with this handbook's Multiple Intelligence (MI)–based strategies. Starting with a diagnostic interview for each child that helps teachers develop the best instructional methods for their classrooms, this guide provides hundreds of specific teaching methods that strengthen each of the eight intelligences in any classroom ...             The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova8 reviews Anna Akhmatova Zephyr Press, 2000 Somehow a survivor Akhmatova was one of the few unrepentant Acemist poets to survive Russia's Bolshevik revolution and subsequant Stalinist takeover and purges. She was seen by authorities as a dangerous element, related to the pre-revolutionary order. Somehow, even as her fellow poets - including friend Osip Mandlestam and husband Nikolay Gumilov - were executed, exiled, sent to camps, or fled, she managed to ...             The Re-Enchantment of Learning: A Manual for Teacher Renewal and Classroom Transformation Sam Crowell, Renate Nummela Caine, ... Zephyr Press, 2001 Boost effectiveness in meeting today’s challenges with brain-based learning strategies. Applications of these field-tested methods have resulted in higher student grades and test scores. Brain-based teaching explained in a way that every teacher or school can build upon, how to bring a sense of wonder back into the classroom, and innovative ways to tap creativity and originality with responsive learning approaches. Optimize learning and ...             Art Is Fundamental: Teaching the Elements and Principles of Art in Elementary School Eileen S. Prince Zephyr Press, 2008 This comprehensive art curriculum can easily be integrated into any teacher's existing instruction and provides thrilling and rewarding projects for elementary art students, including printmaking techniques, tessellations, watercolors, calligraphic lines, organic form sculptures, and value collages. Detailed lessons—developed and tested in classrooms over many years—build on one another in a logical progression and explore the ...             Mapping Inner Space: Learning and Teaching Visual Mapping12 reviews Nancy Margulies, Nusa Maal Zephyr Press, 2001 Mapping is new! I wanted to learn mapping to help me with my career choices as I worked with a resume writer and career coach (http://www.callfranklyspeaking.com). This book really helped me understand the concept and apply not just to a job change, but to my new job and mapping out the possibilities for my department. Easy to learn!             A Kid's Guide to Creating Web Pages for Home and School2 reviews Benjamin Selfridge, Peter Selfridge Zephyr Press, 2004 An excellent primer for young (and old) I just finished reading "A Kid's Guide to Creating Web Pages" by Benjamin and Peter Selfridge and I highly recommend it for the following reasons: 1. It is written in crystal clear and friendly language. 2. You will be able to create a web page easily and successfully. 3. You will understand what you did to create the web page (in other words, the authors try to explain what each ...             Art Matters: Strategies, Ideas, and Activities to Strengthen Learning Across the Curriculum2 reviews Eileen S. Prince Zephyr Press, 2002 Excellent book, Excellent Teacher I was a student of hers in Indianapolis for 7 years. She was a fantastic instructor, and I'm sure this book will be a great resource for other instructors.             Feng Shui for the Classroom: 101 Easy-to-Use Ideas9 reviews Renee Heiss Zephyr Press, 2004 Author response I am the author of Feng Shui for the Classroom and I would like to respond to J. Crown's comments. Yes, I reiterate that cleaning is essential to feng shui rememdies, but not because teachers are so sloppy. It is because they are so overworked by educational systems that require them to teach to the standard or the test, that they rarely have time for classroom housekeeping. Space cleaning ...             Team Challenges: 170+ Group Activities to Build Cooperation, Communication, and Creativity7 reviews Kris Bordessa Zephyr Press, 2005 Must have! Wish I'd had it years ago! We're a homeschooling family, and have started using this book in our co-op. It's so amazing to watch the idea of "team" unfold as we go along. This book is fantastic, so well organized and well written, and full of so many different ideas, you're bound to find something unique that works for every personality. We've participated in Oddessey of the Mind in the past, and I think this book should ...             Begin with the Brain: Orchestrating the Learner-Centered Classroom1 review Martha Kaufeldt Zephyr Press, 2001 Practical strategies for becoming learner-centred teachers This is a surprisingly useful book. I wish all teachers and teachers-to-be can benefit from it. For busy teachers who don't have the luxury to read up on so many diverse sources, you get a good distillation of their applications. "Don't smile until Christmas!" is the conventional wisdom. Martha's first suggestion is to SMILE. Chapter 1, "From Fear to Flow" highlights the importance of safe ...             Creating the Peaceable Classroom: Techniques to Calm, Uplift, and Focus Teachers and Students2 reviews Sandy Bothmer Zephyr Press, 2003 Feng Shui and Yoga for the Classroom I enjoyed this book, even though I have not been able to incorporate many of the suggestions. I read a similar book, Feng Shui for the Classroom, which gave more detailed information on the "how" to set up your environment. I thought the suggestions on classroom management and yoga/breathing/oxygen breaks were very good. I'm still trying to find time in the day to teach some yoga moves. But ...             Big Ideas for Growing Mathematicians: Exploring Elementary Math with 20 Ready-to-Go Activities1 review Ann Kajander Zephyr Press, 2007 "Big Ideas For Growing Mathematicians" is also recommended for use by home-schooling parents. Developed for use by students ages 10 to 14, and in grades 5 through 8, "Big Ideas For Growing Mathematicians: Exploring Elementary Math With 20 Ready-To-Go Activities" by Ann Kajander (founder of the Kindermath Enrich Project and an Adjunct Professor in the Mathematics Department of Lakehead University) is enthusiastically recommended resource for elementary school mathematics enrichment program ...             Living History in the Classroom: Integrative Arts Activities for Making Social Studies Meaningful Douglas Selwyn Zephyr Press, 1993 Encouraging all students to experience history by getting personally involved with the content, this book teaches history to students through mock trials, role-playing, political cartooning, period photography, creative writing and journals, building 3-D models, making masks, and music. Combining theory and practice, the book also utilizes lesson objectives, reproducible handouts, questions for discussion, and assessments—including ...             Strategies for Great Teaching: Maximize Learning Moments Mark Reardon, Seth Derner Zephyr Press, 2004 Strategies for Great Teaching provides teachers with easy-to-implement strategies to help students to draw personal meaning from the subject matter and strengthen recall and understanding. Each lesson focuses on a unique type of "e-moment" (engaging moment) that connects students through their modalities and multiple intelligences to the material and maximize the learning moment. Teachers of all content areas will learn how to better engage ...             Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann1 review Ingeborg Bachmann Zephyr Press, 2005 A haunting exploration of consciousness and language Darkness Spoken: The Collected Poems of Ingeborg Bachmann The hauntingly beautiful poems in this volume give expression to a deep and often brooding poetic consciousness which is one and the same as language. Set free--the word is not casually chosen--language reconfigures itself in an act of renewal, achieving a new vitality. Thus, ultimately, no matter how somber they may be, in their very ...             Mapping Inner Space: Learning and Teaching Mind Mapping4 reviews Nancy Margulies Zephyr Press (AZ), 1991 An excellent visual thinking application book In this book, the author stretches the traditional boundary of mindmapping as created by Tony Buzan in his many proprietary "Mindmapping" books since the mid-70s. The author breaks some traditional "Mindmapping" rules in the process, which she now calls "Mindscaping." This enables the reader to exercise the untapped and unlimited potential of the mind to create new working maps in the process ...             The Parent-Teacher Partnership: How to Work Together for Student Achievement Scott Mandel Zephyr Press, 2008 With the National PTA’s Standard for School-Family-Community Partnership as a framework, this guide offers advice for resolving common points of contention between parents and teachers, such as the most productive use of a parent–teacher conference, the best at-home environment for doing homework, the helpfulness of parental rewards for classroom performance, and a teacher’s role in supporting a student with an at-home crisis. ...             Learning vs Testing: Strategies That Bridge the Gap6 reviews Pat Wyman Zephyr Press, 2000 Understands kids It seems evident that Pat Wyman has poured her heart, her soul, and her 25 years experience teaching kids how to learn, into this book. I found the story about her own son, JP, at the beginning of the book particularly relevant. As the parent of a 16 year old son who has his own unique style of learning, I know how difficult it is for kids being subjected to the cookie-cutter style of testing and ...             In The Grip of Strange Thoughts: Russian Poetry in a New Era2 reviews Zephyr Press, 2000 A beautifully translated book of contemporary Russian poets' Zephyr Press, which gave us the superb Complete Poetry of Anna Achmatova, offers us a comprehensive feast of contemporary Russian poetry, with a fascinating introduction. The poetry is bittersweet, reflecting and expressing the soul of a nation changing radically from decade to decade. 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