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Use the timeless appeal of nursery rhymes to foster a love of reading and develop important literacy skills. Standards-based lessons and activities help children build background knowledge, practice word-building and phonics skills, expand vocabulary, and use descriptive language. Lessons also introduce comprehension skills such as retelling, sequencing, exploring problems and solutions, and more. Includes hands-on manipulatives, graphic organizers, center ideas, and writing connections. For use with Grades K–1. ... Read more

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Great for beginning students!
My grandson enjoys the learning time. When we work together it seems like playtime because of this book!

Kindergarten Teacher
As an early childhood educator, I found many useful activities to use in my classroom.So many children today are unfamiliar with classic nursery rhymes and this book provides many extension activities to use with the rhymes presented. ... Read more

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Invite children to sing along and learn to count, measure, identify shapes, and more-and get a head start on success in school! This full-color, illustrated book with audio CD includes lively original songs that build active listening. The toe-tapping tunes and fun lyrics also help young children build oral language and early literacy skills! Includes song sheets and easy, learning-filled activities. For use with Grades PreK-2. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education), published by T.H.E. Journal, LLC on March 1, 1989. The length of the article is 512 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The New York City Board of Education and Minolta Corp's Business Equipment Division have joined together to implement an experimental program that trains pregnant teenagers in the high-technology skills they will need to find work. The students, enrolled in the Board's Pregnant Teens Program, are learning office-machine skills on MS-DOS systems that incorporate word processing, personal computing, calculating and electronic typewriting. The students attend school for the full day and spend two class periods learning the systems. They can then opt to stay after school to practice. A government grant provides funds for staff and student positions, as well as a day-care center for babies of students. The students also share in the profits from projects completed under the program.

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Title: Office systems teach pregnant teens skills sought by employers.
Author: Kymberly G. Dryer
Publication: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Refereed)
Date: March 1, 1989
Publisher: T.H.E. Journal, LLC
Volume: v16Issue: n7Page: p64(2)

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Title: Thinking critically.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review)
Author: Helen Dunford
Publication: The Australian Library Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 55Issue: 3Page: 277(1)

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on May 2, 1994. The length of the article is 420 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: Aetna Life & Casualty has started a program to train middle school students in conflict mediation in order to reduce costly litigation in America. Aetna has invested about $50,000 in the project, sending conflict resolution kits to more than 70,000 educators and 2,000 students. Under the program, teachers discuss how and when conflict arises and how participants can cooperatively work towards resolution. The program also attempts to alleviate the burden on teachers to be sole arbiters in conflict.

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Title: Aetna teaches kids mediation skills. (Aetna Life & Casualty)
Author: Evelyn Gilbert
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: May 2, 1994
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n18Page: p23(1)

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This digital document is an article from The Australian Library Journal, published by Thomson Gale on February 1, 2006. The length of the article is 512 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Evaluation of primary sources.(Using Internet Primary Sources to Teach Critical Thinking Skills in World Literature)(Book review)
Author: Helen Dunford
Publication: The Australian Library Journal (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 55Issue: 1Page: 88(2)

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This digital document is an article from Business Communication Quarterly, published by Association for Business Communication on December 1, 1996. The length of the article is 3432 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the supplier: The traditional business communication syllabus often follows a simplistic process model that fails to teach students about the complex political and social environment in which business communication is practiced. An alternative to this approach is a critical-thinking methodology that makes use of communication consulting projects. Consulting projects are found to help students to think beyond the classroom and base decisions on political and social realities.

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Title: Using consulting projects to teach critical-thinking skills in business communication.
Author: Clive Muir
Publication: Business Communication Quarterly (Refereed)
Date: December 1, 1996
Publisher: Association for Business Communication
Volume: v59Issue: n4Page: p77(11)

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This digital document is an article from Management Accounting Quarterly, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2006. The length of the article is 3162 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Do we teach enough it skills in management accounting courses? A survey of accounting educators that explores the current use of Information technology content in management accounting Education shows that accounting students are not being taught the it skills They will need in the business world.
Author: Akhilesh Chandra
Publication: Management Accounting Quarterly (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 8Issue: 1Page: 49

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[Teach Yourself] Write Winning Essays and Dissertations is an invaluable guide for anyone who wants to improve their assessed written work. Whether you are in desperate need of help or are simply looking for a comprehensive guide to writing well, this book will prove useful throughout your academic career. It will show you how to plan your work so that your argument is expressed clearly, how to use language to best effect and how to get the most out of your sources. This book doesn't make good writing more complicated than it needs to be; you will come away from it having learnt better writing skills that have been proven to boost marks by up to 20 per cent. NOT GOT MUCH TIME? One, five and ten-minute introductions to key principles to get you started. AUTHOR INSIGHTS Lots of instant help with common problems and quick tips for success, based on the author's many years of experience. TEST YOURSELF Tests in the book and online to keep track of your progress. EXTEND YOUR KNOWLEDGE Extra online articles at www.teachyourself.com to give you a richer understanding of writing an essay or dissertation. FIVE THINGS TO REMEMBER Quick refreshers to help you remember the key facts.TRY THIS Innovative exercises illustrate what you've learnt and how to use it. ... Read more

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Sremac offers a penetrating look at how media-generated images and ideas reiterated throughout the Yugoslav civil war hindered Washington's ability to understand what was really happening in the region and made U.S.foreign policy a reflection of sound bites rather than sound reasoning. The process and ideology that guides Washington,in a post-cold war era has allowed special interest groups that understand how Washington works to put forth a message that appeals to tte media and receives endorsement by the U.S. foreign policymaking establishment. Foreign governments and thier supporters in the United States have increasingly tapped into this system. The Yugoslav conflict is one of the first and most important examples of how certain Yugoslav warring parties were able to play out a war of words in Washington to ultimately influence U.S. foreign policy toward the region. ... Read more

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War of Delusion
This is the usual self justifying nationalist rubbish Serbed by a energetic and relentless defender of nationalist hate mongering and war crimes. Sremac traversed the country lobbying to prove that war criminals like Radovan Karadzic were really heros and the crazed blood soaked and self defeating nationalist lunacy they skippered was really a noble and heroic struggle for freedom.

This work dutifully conveys the stock lies of Serbian nationalist delusion: the evil Germans again out to destroy Yugoslavia; the treacherous US hell bent on imposing its evil world order on the peace and freedom loving Serbs; the deceitful western media out crucify the heroic Serbian people and their noble cause. It's a simple message: Serbs good - Others bad. Her psuedo objective language will only fool the converted along with clueless useful idiots willing to side with any one or anyhting seen as at odds with Washington.

For Sremac, the mistake the Serbs made, in their naive and innocent way and unlike those sneaky and nasty Croats and Bosnian Muslims, was not to hire PR experts to promote the "truth" about their "misunderstood" fight for freedom. Unfortunately there were many Sremac's from all sides - zombies blindly defending "their" sides role in the free for all slaughter, destruction and genocide that marked Yugoslavia's self destruction.

The following works should better clarify the record:

Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia

Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars

Coherent internaly and with other sources
Sremac is perhaps biased by any residual Serb identity but that is irrelevant if the claims and sources used agree with those of authoritative writers on the subject.

That appears to be the case in comparing her book with the NSA's expert during the war (John R. Schindler) and the US Army Intelligence's John E. Sray. Sadly, while the NSA was did not go public with its criticism of the standard interpretation, Sremac could have referenced Col. Andrei Demurenko's report on the Markale Markeplace bombings. David Binder had access to it but used a secondary source instead.

In the broader perspective, the account is accurate in terms of events and motivations seem in line with what is described by other sources as well. The book is in conflict with the popular conception of the war in that it does not believe Serbs to be guilty of Genocide, commencing the war, and other atrocities. That does not mean that she believes they did not exist.

War crimes and atrocities existed on all sides but she singles out the Bosnian government under Alia Izetbegovitch and the Croatian Ustashe government for particular cruelty and for using such as tools of war. Her case in that regard could be stronger but that is due to a perhaps excessive focus on the actual war instead of the propaganda war. She stops only to mention the occurrence without providing the amount of detail of the situation and the comparison with Western media beliefs.

This is understandable in an effort to communicate without boring the audience (Westerners refuse to listen to detailed arguments) but as any lawyer knows, omission is is potential failure unless the weight brings the case down.

A good book that perhaps deserves 4.5 but is given the benefit of the doubt for a still excellent understanding of events on the Washington side.

Poorly written
Nothing in this book references back to the historic facts about the Bosnian right to independence, freedom, and democracy.Book has failed on numerous accountsto provide the overview of true causes of war and agression on Bosnia.

Sremac's Fantasy
War of Words is an amazing piece of racist propaganda matched only by the fantasy-laden accounts of the wars in Yugoslavia which came from Belgrade's state-run media, or the version of the war in Iraq as told by the Iraqi information minister.Sremac is not only a representative of the Serbian government, hardly making her account unbaised, but fails to account for aspects of the Bosnian war (such as the starvation and murder of Muslim prisoners in detention camps) which were confirmed by witnesses from dozens of relief organizations and media groups, as well as thousands of tesitmonials at the UN warcrimes tribunals.Sremac further claims that Washington's motivation for supprting the Muslims was based on some crazy desire to intervene in countires after the cold war (laughable is you know anything about Clinton's record of intervention, or if you examine how long it took Washington to intervene in Bosnia and under what conditions).She relies on the accounts of the war from such indicted criminal murderers as Radovan Karadzic, and subscribes to common Serbian attempts to blame the victim of genocide for Serbia's vile crimes.If you want to know what it is like to read some nice racist fiction, or experience Balkan duplicity firsthand, pick this work up, glance it over, burn it, and then scold yourself for having put money in the pockets of somebody like Sremac.Further, the people on this site who wrote rave reviews of this book are probably either ultranationalist members of the Serbian parliament or themselves indicted war criminals hiding in Pale.

Subjectivity vs. Objectivity
Danielle Sremac was a registered agent lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, namely, the Yugoslav (Serbian and Montenegrin governments) during the wars of the 1990s. This can be looked up in public records, as proscribed by law.
She is more than entitled to write a book about the wars, but one must exercise caution as to the content of her book. If this woman was lobbying on behalf of indicted and convicted war criminals, then much of her case would be higly suspect from the beginning. ... Read more

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This English literature revision guide for GCSE English students discusses William Shakespeare's "Macbeth". It features "mind maps" which summarize the entire work, icons, symbols, diagrams, cartoons and storyboards. This guide is exclusive to WHSmith until further notice. ... Read more

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A great introduction to Reading! Uses both phonics andwhole language approaches. Learn about the alphabet, vowels,consonants (C and G), telling time, days of the week, seasons, theenvironment and more...

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What a great and memorable song collection for kids!
I am a second grade teacher and I have to say that "Funky Phonics and more, vol. 1" really livens up my classroom, every year!

Favorite tunes include "The Vowel Song", "The Animal Song","Telling Time" and "Androide".

I would say that"Funky Phonics" is really a Reading Readiness kit which alsointroduces phonics through song. Lots of the songs are action packed.

For example, when we are singing "The Vowel Song", I makegiant flash cards for the kids and each child gets a chance to be one ofthe vowels. Then as we are singing about each vowel, the child proudly getsa chance to pop up and show off his letter.

"The Animal Song"is great. It's much more that an alphabet song. It introduces a new animalfor every single letter of the alphabet and teaches an interesting factabout each of the animals too!

"Telling Time" is wonderfulbecause not only does it each kids how to tell time, it reviews skipcounting in 5's because after all, this is often the way we telltime.....ie..10:05, 10:10 or 10:15.

"The Androide Song" is aninteresting approach to telling time. The kids love to hear the Androidesing about time and his daily race through the fast lane of life.

Ofcourse, other interesting songs, such as "Days of the Week",which teaches how the days were named after the planets, and "Who'sGoing to Save Us Now?" a great environmental tune, really spice upother curriculum units.

Whether for home use or in the classroom, I hopeyou'll be as excited and pleased with "Funky Phonics and moreVol.1" as I am. ... Read more

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Teach Yourself Basic Computer Skills is perfect for any new computer user who wants to get up and running, quickly and simply. For beginners it is a cost-effective alternative to buying an expensive manual for each application. The book is written for the general user, but the level and content are also relevant to anyone following MOUS certification, SQA modules and BCS Level 1/2 application courses. With step-by-step iinstructions, minimal jargon and detailed explanations of all the technical terms, this book will give a new user the confidence to move forward and expand their knowledge. As well as being updated for Windows Vista, Office 2007 and Internet Explorer 7, additional coverage includes: - System Interrogation - Finding health and safety laws and guidelines affecting the use of IT - Creating and maintaining a safe workstation environment - Office interface - ribbon, tabs, groups, MSO button and menu, Quick Access toolbar - Advantages and disadvantages of different email systems - Netiquette - Hidden dangers - unsolicited email, virus dangers - Understand guidelines and regulations on using email ... Read more

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email and browsing should be earlier in the book
Indeed very basic. Stephen starts from scratch and gently guides the reader through the rudiments of computer usage. As in controlling a mouse to navigate thru a windowing system. Simple applications like word processing, spreadsheets and even building a database, are demonstrated. Using the Microsoft Office suite.

The example of using a database seems a little misplaced. Few total beginners would surely have such an explicit need. Even the section on using spreadsheets is questionable.

The last chapter of the book goes into how to use a browser and email. The author made an error by placing this chapter last. Email and browser are the first 2 killer apps of the Internet. Nowadays, when someone goes to a computer for the first time, she is likely to want to use these, instead of a spreadsheet, say. The chapter should have been brought forward to as early in the book as possible.

Plus, more space should have been devoted to explaining email and the browser. Each deserves its own chapter. Along these lines, Instant Messaging should also be prominently discussed. If need be, the section on making a database should be deleted to free up space.

What the author did was blithely go through the Microsoft Office package, and describe the main applications. Ignoring the reality of which are actually likely to be used by pure tyros. ... Read more

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Learning to decode new words is easy with this these engaging phonics games that put a new twist on bingo. The reproducible ""ladders"" help kids master short vowels, long vowels, blends, digraphs, and more. Perfect for centers! For use with Grades K–2. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Education & Treatment of Children, published by West Virginia University Press, University of West Virginia on August 1, 2009. The length of the article is 4362 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The use of behavioral skills training and in-situ training to teach children to solicit help when lost: a preliminary investigation.(Brief article)
Author: Jennifer Pan-Skadden
Publication: Education & Treatment of Children (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 1, 2009
Publisher: West Virginia University Press, University of West Virginia
Volume: 32Issue: 3Page: 359(12)

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This digital document is an article from Techniques, published by Association for Career and Technical Education on October 1, 2000. The length of the article is 2589 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Learning Lessons.(Techforce teaches students information technology skills)
Author: Emily McLeod
Publication: Techniques (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2000
Publisher: Association for Career and Technical Education
Volume: 75Issue: 7Page: 34

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