Leap into Literacy

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Pembroke Publishers Limited, 2007 - 128 páginas
Create an experiential, challenging, and safe classroom that stimulates both minds and bodies with an amazing variety of teaching ideas and activities.

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Introduction
7
First Chapter
13
Appendices
112
Bibliography
123
Index
126
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Página 42 - Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground ; long heath, brown furze, anything: The wills above be done ! but I would fain die a dry death.
Página 37 - Life is about not knowing/ having to change/ taking the moment and making the best of it/ without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Página 111 - The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Página 12 - ... trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then, to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the MIND can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.
Página 12 - ... you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then— to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it.
Página 57 - But the greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances.
Página 42 - ... beginnings of the thick forest, plonking with weary feet on a track, when they heard the noises — squeakings — and the hard strike of hoofs on a path. As they pushed forward the squeaking increased till it became a frenzy. They found a piglet caught in a curtain of creepers, throwing itself at the elastic traces in all the madness of extreme terror. Its voice was thin, needle-sharp, and insistent. The three boys rushed forward and Jack drew his knife again with a flourish. He raised his arm...
Página 9 - The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate "apparently ordinary" people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people." — K. Patricia Cross "I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
Página 12 - ... is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds.
Página 42 - He kind of spat." Ralph pursed his lips and squirted air into the shell, which emitted a low, farting noise. This amused both boys so much that Ralph went on squirting for some minutes, between bouts of laughter. "He blew from down here." Ralph grasped the idea and hit the shell with air from his diaphragm. Immediately the thing sounded. A deep, harsh note boomed under the palms, spread through the intricacies of the forest and echoed back from the pink granite of the mountain. Clouds of birds rose...

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