Junior Books

A fun and interesting book filled with action and adventure. I recommend this book to anyone who is looking for a book that will strech their imagination.

I think this Treasure Planet book is really good. The pictures are great and the book is just like the movie. Jim finds a map and joins the crew. An alien first told him to beware of a cyborg. He sets sail on the ship as a cabin boy and Silver as the cook. Silver teaches Jim what he knows and is beginning to get a soft place for Jim. They find the treasure but it is a trap. They escape and Silver leaves the crew. I recommend this book to anyone who like short adventure stories.

This is an awesome book! This book uses dramatic activities and process drama to explore the African American heritage. Each chapter is written by different teaching artists and/or educators who have actually used their lessons with students. The chapters are filled with their philosophy of using drama, why they chose a certain pre-text as well as the actual activity they implemented. Some chapters conclude with additional resources to help apply and understand the activity. Other chapters involve additional steps to specifically assist classroom teachers. The pretexts vary from African American folktales, pictures, songs, poetry, historical events and literature. Most of the chapters also provide the pretext. Unit 6 discusses using dramatic actives to deepen students understanding of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor.

Dreamseekers has won this year's AATE Distinguished Book Award!!

I had this book a couple of semesters ago and it's great. Very informative and I wish I would have kept it for future reference.

If you need a textbook about the fundamentals of early literacy...

...it's the best: HANDS DOWN!

Without sounding cliched, I cannot name enough superlatives for this book, so I won't try. I'll just hit some excellent points that sold me on this book (and it's many previous editons).

First, it's under $80.00 or about as close as you can get for a textbook of this caliber. At first sight, it may not seem like such a big deal, but wait until you see what's inside!

Every page is printed in brillant color. Bright photos, clear large text, and TONS of tables and diagrams are abundant.

Let's talk about the organization. You name it, then it's got it. I was totally bowled over by an inclusion of sections on bibliotherapy and audio/visual reading equipment. Very rarely will you find a book with so many sections (six in all). Each chapter is further striated into tiny chunks of info that spill right into one another in a rational, logical flow...exactly what students need.

The fact that this book is in it's eighth edition should say something, too. The seventh edition was, in opinion, as perfect of a textbook as could be. Could this one top that one? The jury is still out on that.

Regardless, you would not spend your money better by choosing an alternative to this text. Please get this one.

This was a wonderful book. My instructor in a methods and materials class used it as the text. I love using it in my lesson planning for my preschoolers.

I am a young veteran teacher with much to learn. "Early Education Curriculum" covers a lot of what I learned in Ed School and much more that I learned in the classroom. This book demonstrates the wisdom and knowledge of the author, Hilda Jackman, and offers the new or veteran educator a fresh perspective on the art and science of early childhood education.

Another book that I read during this holiday break is "Behavior Coaching" by Dr. Scott E. Hall from the University of Dayton and Matt Pasquinilli. "Early Education Curriculum" lays out all the basics of how to prepare for your classroom, what to teach, when to teach what, etc... "Behavior Coaching", while aimed more at the parent than the teacher, offers great insight in how to address disruptive behavior in the classroom. "Behavior Coaching" compliments "Early Education Curriculum" and I highly recommend that you get both.

I think this book is the best book I ever read. I hope someday it will be published as a New York Times best seller. I hope that who ever reads this will like it as much as I did.

It is the best book I have ever read It is the top on all the books I have also read. I hope my mom will let me get this exiting great book on Amozon. com. You relly sould read this great book. I'm shore it will be tthe top on your list to. Because it showed alot of detail.

Ok. So this was written by Dad and my Grandfather, but it still absolutely rocks. I used it loads as a kid and it was always better than some of the other, more sedate, and therefore more boring, children's dictionaries.

I cannot believe this book is a `hard to find' item. It is so well written and beautifully presented, a must for all children.

I am the director of secondary school student teachers at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri. I teach courses in Middle School Philosophy, Educational Psychology, and Teaching and Classroom Management. I have found this text to be an excellent resource when focusing on the curriculum, management, and developmental needs of the adolescent. I highly recommend it.

Wiles and Bondi have been involved with middle school education from the beginning. This book is comprehensive and detailed in describing the middle school curriculum and how to implement it. Particular emphasis is given to the nature of the preadolescent learner and the implications for teachers.

This is such a wonderful treatment of early childhood preperation for mathematics and science studies that it is a major shame that it is not more widely available. It should be read by everyone working with children in preschool or primary education.

The treatment of block play as nonverbal communciation is outstanding, as are the chapters on mathematics and science aspects. This would be a valuable tool for anyone attempting to balance the recent trend towards kindergarten worksheets and reading lessons with a more realistic approach to developing young children's learning abilities.

The only caveat is that the team felt obliged to invent their own names for the standard Unit Blocks used, and in some cases have given names identical to standard names to the wrong blocks. But anyone familiar enough with the standard names to be confused will so thoroughly enjoy the material in this book, that they will surely endulge that eccentricity.

Required reading. A must have for any early education library.

Friedrich Froebel was a strong advocate of the idea that children learn by playing with blocks. Blockplay was an important activity in his first Kindergarten. Open ended blockplay offers endless possibilities for creativity and discovery.

This books helps parents and teachers to maximise this experience for children. By understanding the natural inclination of children to perceive, investigate, and assemble blocks you can go beyond free play to forge a learning partnership.

These books and tapes offer ideas for almost every pre-kindergarten experience. Rainy day? Kitson's got it covered. New food? She's got a rhyme. These fingerplays and rhymes are fun and educational.

I use many of the fingerplays in this book. One of my favorites is called Sometimes I get a boo boo. I work with two and three year olds and they loved this fingerplay. One of my two year olds went home and quoted this play after I had taught it to them. The next day his mother told me about it so I decided to make a copy of the fingerplay for each of my children. I wrote it down and placed a band aid with each play then I covered it with contac paper. They loved taking this home. Two more that I have taught are the following: A cook or a chef wears a tall white hat. I collected each of the hats mentioned in the fingerplay and showed them to them as I taught it. This helped them memorize the play. The other one is My mommy drives her car to work. I collected each of the vehicles mentioned in the play and showed them to the children as I taught it to them. One more play I enjoyed was Pickles, pickles in a jar. I took some pickles and taught the fingerplay before I let each child taste a pickle. Each of my children did like pickles and the fingerplay. I think Jane Kitson's plays are awesome! Thank you.

I bought this book out of college because I couldn't cook worth a flip. It's a great beginner's book - it takes nothing for granted! Later, when I married, I showed it to my husband and he began to take an interest in cooking because the book made it so easy. This is a very helpful beginner's cookbook, for any age.

I purchased this book for my 8.5 year old daughter who has enjoyed cooking at my side and has an interest in learning to cook. This cookbook provides a wonderful introduction to the world of culinary arts, beginning with an understanding of basic food ingredients, cooking and baking tools and terms and continues with advise on safety and menu planning.

The level is probably best suited to children from 10 - 14, however, with some guidance and supervision my 8 year old can prepare most of the recipes.

Recipes include all the basics from Vegetable soup to Chili to Banana Nut Bread, Brownies, Pies and Punch. All recipes inlcude an equipment list along with the ingredient list and clear, easy to follow step-by-step instructions with important safety tips like "wearing oven mits, remove the cookie sheet from the oven."

We've tried several of the recipes and have not been disappointed. This junior version of the classic compares well. I expect that my daughter will one day take this cookbook off to college.