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Understanding by Design, Expanded 2nd Edition

Grant Wiggins, Jay McTighe

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Total reviews: 29 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

The highly anticipated second edition of Understanding by Design poses the core, essential questions of understanding and design, and provides readers with practical solutions for the teacher-designer. The book opens by analyzing the logic of backward design as an alternative to coverage and activity-oriented plans. Though backward from habit, this approach brings more focus and coherence to instruction. The book proposes a multifaceted approach, with the six “facets” of understanding. The facets combine with backward design to provide a powerful, expanded array of practical tools and strategies for designing curriculum, instruction, and assessments that lead students at all grade levels to genuine understanding. The second edition, a refined work, has been thoroughly and extensively revised, updated, and expanded, including improvement of the UbD Template, the key terms of UbD, dozens of worksheets, and some of the larger concepts. The authors have successfully put together a text that demonstrates what best practice in the design of learning looks like, enhancing for its audience their capability for creating more engaging and effective learning, whether the student is a third grader, a college freshman, or a faculty member.

CliffsAP Biology (Cliffs Ap Biology)

Phillip E., Ph.D. Pack

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Your complete guide to a higher score on the *AP Biology exam

About the contents:

Introduction


* A review of the AP exam format and scoring
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Proven strategies for answering multiple-choice questions
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Hints for tackling the essay questions
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A list of 14 specific must-know principles


Part I: Subject Area Reviews


* Covers 14 subject areas
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Includes sample questions and answers for each subject


Part II: Laboratory Review


* A focused review of all 12 AP laboratory exercises


Part III: AP Biology Practice Tests


* 2 full-length practice tests that simulate the actual test
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Answers and complete explanations


*AP is a registered trademark of the College Board, which was not involved in the production of, and does not endorse, this product.

Barron's GRE: Graduate Record Examination

Sharon Weiner Green, Ira K. Wolf

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Total reviews: 29 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Save your money, buy older version. 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I had Barron's 2006 and I bought the 2009 one hoping that it would better prepare me for the GRE. The content of the book is EXACTLY the same as the older version. My suggestion is - save your money, buy older version - it's much cheaper and has 99.9% same contents (questions + reviews).

Helpful for practice 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book about 9 months before I actually took my GRE. The paper practice sections and tests were very helpful however some of the explinations lacked. The math was more helpful than the vocabulary, I would recommend additional help in that area.

Editorial Review:

This 17th edition of Barron’s GRE manual reflects recent Graduate Record Exams and presents six full-length model exams with all questions answered and explained. Tests are similar to recent actual GREs in length, question types, and degree of difficulty. The manual also reviews all GRE test topics: antonym, analogy, and sentence-completion questions, reading comprehension, analytical writing, quantitative comparison questions, data interpretation, and math. The enclosed CD-ROM contains computerized versions of the book’s subject reviews and practice tests.

Content Area Reading: Literacy and Learning Across the Curriculum (9th Edition)

Richard T. Vacca, Jo Anne L. Vacca

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Book Review 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 1 people found this review helpful.

The book was approrpriate for the class I was taking. It is a very dry read, but it covers the topics that were needed and it was informative.

Excellent Product & Prompt Delivery 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 3 people found this review helpful.

This item was exactly as described in the item description. It was in the original packaging and is in excellent condition. I am very satisfied and I highly recommend this seller and product to everyone.

Good book. 4 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

This book arrived in a timely manner. When it arrived it looked new, however only after a few days the spine started falling apart and all the pages began to come apart. I had to glue to book to keep it from all falling out of the cover.

Got my money's worth 5 out of 5 stars.
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the book arrived promptly and in good condition. the transaction was very smooth, no hassle. would definitely do business again.

Editorial Review:

With the underlying belief that students learn with texts, not necessarily from them, this respected text is designed to be an active learning tool, complete with real-world examples and research-based practices. Reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes to learn subject matter across the curriculum. Content Area Reading.

Barron's SAT 2009 (Barron's Sat (Book Only))

Sharon Weiner Green M.A., Ira K. Wolf Ph.D.

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Total reviews: 71 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Satisfactory 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful.

The vocab list was really long and seemed impossible to undertake. However, I did about 2-3 lists per day for a couple weeks before the test, memorizing unfamiliar words, and I saw a lot of them on the test itself. It also improved my vocab for REAL LIFE situations! If you're willing to sit down and try to memorize close to 3500 words, then why not?

The practice tests were rather inaccurate. The math portion was a lot harder than other publishers' math parts. I took 3 of the 4 practice tests in Barron's and received scores lower than 650 each time. But when I took the College Board test, my math score was above 700. The actual SAT math questions were more similar to the big blue book questions than they were to Barron's questions.

I never bothered reading through the whole book.

Editorial Review:

The new, up-to-date edition of Barron’s SAT test prep manual presents a diagnostic test and five full-length practice tests that reflect the most recent SATs in length, question types, and degree of difficulty. The book also presents an overview of the SAT, explains its scoring method, and offers subject reviews in critical reading, grammar and usage, and math. In addition, it gives advice on preparing and writing the required SAT essay. Here is comprehensive preparation for that all-important college entrance exam, which must be taken by most college-bound students in North America.

Barron's SAT 2400: Aiming for the Perfect Score (Barron's Sat 2400)

Linda Carnevale M.A., Roselyn Teukolsky M.S.

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Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Overall - great book 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

I just received this book yesterday, and after reading through it, found some of the stuff to be very helpful. There are some insights this book share that others don't. This book is for those who strive for a perfect 2400 on the SAT. If you want to familiarize yourself with the SAT first, then you should read Barron's How to Prepare for the SAT. That book has a lot more information about taking the SAT, but it will only tell you how to guess on the hard questions. Unlike this book, which tells you how to actually handle and solve them.

I took off one star because I thought this book would have more pages (it has 373). Math is a full 171 pages, compared to only 180 pages for the reading and writing pages combined. I would like to give this book 3.5 stars, but by the rules of rounding, that's 4 stars :D

Editorial Review:

Even the brightest and most hard-working students aren’t expected to score a perfect 2400 on their SAT college entrance tests, but students who approach perfection with scores of 2100 or higher are virtually guaranteed acceptance at the country’s most prestigious colleges. The new edition of this popular guide for high-achieving college-bound students bypasses the standard test preparation drills and offers novel advice and innovative strategies for tackling the SAT’s hardest questions. The book presents Critical Reading strategies for both long and short passages, concentrated help for writing a near-perfect SAT essay, and extra coaching in arithmetic, algebra, geometry, statistics, and math word problems. Students will also find difficult practice questions with explained answers in all SAT test areas, upper-level vocabulary lists, and useful math formulas.

First Year Teacher's Survival Guide: Ready-To-Use Strategies, Tools & Activities For Meeting The Challenges Of Each School Day (J-B Ed:Survival Guides)

Julia G. Thompson

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Great Resource 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This text is jam packed full of helpful hint and strategies to prepare for the world of teaching.I am a fifth year BED student and I have found this book very applicable to real life world of teaching. In my opinion I think this text should be taught in classes like theory and practice at university. I recommend this book to anyone pursuing teaching it is fabulous resource and well worth your money.

Should be required text for all education majors 5 out of 5 stars.
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This book has so much useful and insightful information that I will be referring to it for my whole teaching career. I wish it had been a required text for education classes. Many questions could have been answered and many unpleasant situations could have been avoided during substitute and student teaching.

It is right up there with Harry Wong productions!

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Packed with 64 engrossing tales of the extraordinary, Read All About It! combines actual articles from the Associated Press with exercises in reading comprehension and skill mastery.\n\nRead All About It! is divided into four sections: Vocabulary, Questio

Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition: The Power of Comprehension Strategy Instruction

Ellin Oliver Keene, Susan Zimmermann

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Mosiac of Thought Online Course available to all adopters of 25 copies or more of Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition.

Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann have returned with a new edition of Mosaic of Thought that features 70 percent new material. When the first edition published ten years ago, Mosaic of Thought became a runaway best seller as the first book to explicitly describe the use and benefits of strategy-based comprehension instruction. Since then comprehension strategy instruction has exploded, leading to numerous inspiring variations on Mosaic's instructional principles, as well as a widening of the comprehension research base. Now the second edition offers up-to-the-minute insight for classroom teachers, literacy coaches, and school leaders everywhere, and reminds everyone of precisely what effective, long-lasting comprehension teaching looks like.

Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition, has been carefully revised and reflects Keene and Zimmermann's latest thinking. It's designed to help teachers implement practical, thoughtful ideas for teaching comprehension in contemporary classrooms through the seven core strategies that successful readers use to engage with texts. 

Packed with new classroom examples, grounded in the latest research, and written in the same accessible tone as the first edition, reaffirms the essential elements of powerful comprehension teaching introduced in the first edition while adding and updating features, including:

• Key Ideas sections for each strategy that describe crucial comprehension concepts
• new classroom examples that show comprehension strategies put into action in dynamic, literature-rich, current classrooms
• new opening vignettes that illustrate the concepts students will learn through explorations of the thinking used by proficient adult readers
• new tools to help teachers create effective reader's workshops
• innovations from teachers around the country for fine tuning think-alouds and conferring practices
• new advice on long-term instructional planning.

Keene and Zimmermann have also created an invaluable Q-and-A section with smart, informed responses to the questions that today's teachers most frequently ask about strategy-based teaching.

 

Whether you are just now joining the hundreds of thousands of teachers who have made Keene and Zimmermann their central resource for comprehension teaching, or whether you've relied on their advice for years, Mosaic of Thought, Second Edition, will change your literacy instruction - and possibly your own reading - forever. It's filled with vital, new information, new research, and proven practices. Read it today and give your students strategies for connecting with texts that will last a lifetime.

 

Encountering Jesus in the New Testament

Michael Pennock

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Awsome 5 out of 5 stars.
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The book is like new, it is in perfect condition. I am relly happy with the service

Excellent 5 out of 5 stars.
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The book arrived earlier than expected. It was in very good condition & package.

Barron's AP Biology 2008 (Barron's How to Prepare for the Ap Biology Advanced Placement Examination)

Deborah T. Goldberg M.S.

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I got a FIVE on the AP exam 5 out of 5 stars.
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By WWHS student

I love this book. It helped me get great grades on tests in class and a 5 on the AP exam! Our textbook was more than 1200 pages -- too long! I bought this review book a few months after the class started. But I should have bought it at the beginning of the year because once I began to study from it, I started to do better on class tests.

My teacher always gave us essay questions on her tests and the Free-Response Questions and Answers at the end of every chapter are really great. They really explain the material clearly. Also, the review book has 1 diagnostic test and 2 practice tests. That's more than any other review book that I saw.

Editorial Review:

Three full-length practice exams are presented with all questions answered and explained. The author also presents detailed reviews of all test topics and includes multiple-choice and free-response questions with answers at the end of each topic’s chapter. Test topics include: biochemistry, the cell, cell respiration, photosynthesis, cell division, heredity, the molecular basis of inheritance, classification, evolution, plants, animal physiology, the human immune system, animal reproduction and development, ecology, animal behavior, and an extensive laboratory section.