This document provides summaries of multiple books related to education. It summarizes books on strategies to help struggling readers, engaging student imagination in learning, effective reading conferences, evaluating news websites, teaching about the environment, differentiation strategies, using poetry in teaching, service learning, avoiding plagiarism, understanding different student types, and applying neuroscience to teaching. The summaries highlight the main topics and purposes of each book.

2. In today's era of accountability, teachers are expected to help all secondary students understand complex concepts and ideas and demonstrate proficiency on high-stakes tests. To promote success for struggling readers in all content areas, Elaine K. McEwan offers 40 user-friendly and easy-to-implement strategies. From the Product Description

3. Everyone knows that educational success is much more likely when students’ imaginations and emotions are caught up in learning. While we have rich educational literature about holding students' interest, we do not have very much sustained work on what the imagination is, how it works in learning, or how it may be inspired in the classroom. Addressing the whole curriculum, this book provides insights into each of those areas central to educational success. From the Product Description

4. A great reading conference only takes five minutes, but its impact can last a lifetime. That's because conferences are the critical, one-to-one teaching that forms the backbone of reading instruction. Conferring with Readers shows you how to confer well and demonstrates why a few moments with students every week can put them on the path to becoming better, more independent readers. From Product Description

5. "Want to find the best news on the Internet? Broderick and Miller have done the work for you, with an informative and entertaining guide to the Web's most popular news sites. They offer hard, honest appraisals of these sites, celebrating the successes and exposing the failures. Whether you are a journalism student, a news junkie looking for another fix, or just a concerned reader wondering if you're getting the most accurate information, Broderick and Miller's guide will help you improve the quality of your bookmark list and RSS feeds." —Robert Niles, editor, Online Journalism Review

6. This book provides information and resources for teaching middle and high school students about the environment and helps students to build skills in critical thinking and analytical reasoning about complex issues, including biodiversity, genetically modified crops, natural disasters, global climate change, and radioactive waste.

7. This book presents eighteen differentiation strategies, eight differentiation projects in language arts, math, science, and social studies, reproducible assignment sheets, and four bonus projects on a CD-ROM.

8. Here are 60 poems perfectly pitched to the needs of teachers, along with simple unique ideas for maximizing their teaching power before, during, and after learning. Topics include: metamorphosis, simple machines, hurricanes, the Civil War, D-Day, the Vietnam War, immigration, the Nile, the Great Sphinx, fractions, algebra, and more! From the Product Description

9. Adolescents need more than in-school learning. They need to see the connection between classroom learning and the world around them. Service-learning forges that connection by combining the best aspects of experiential learning, immersion, and social interaction. Grounded in research, this book provides facilitators with an effective, best-practice model for selecting and implementing the most appropriate level of service-learning for adolescents. From the Product Description

10. In this book, Gaines tackles the slippery slopes of plagiarism and illegal Internet downloading in a readable and understandable fashion. She begins with a chapter that will grab readers’ attention: the case of Kaavya Viswanathan, a Harvard student whose lucrative book deal went south because her published novel contained approximately 40 passages that very closely resembled those in other works. After this cautionary tale, Gaines goes on to explain plagiarism, copyright, and fair use in great detail. She follows with information that affects students directly: how to do research, take good notes, and provide proper documentation. The book concludes with a discussion of downloading; fair use of video, software, and other media; how to secure permissions; and how to protect one’s own material. --- Booklist (April 1, 2008 (Vol. 104, No. 15))

11. Today’s classroom is a mosaic of different types of students, each with different needs and learning styles. While this variety can facilitate an exciting and dynamic teaching experience, it can also present unexpected challenges for any teacher. In a warm and encouraging style, Vickie Gill presents ten student archetypes to help teachers better understand and reach each member of their classrooms. Included are humorous and poignant stories, advice and specific classroom management strategies for each student type, sample lessons, activities, assignments, rubrics, and evaluations to reach even the most challenging students. From the Product Description

12. Although the brain is the most complex entity in the universe, it can be studied broadly as well as in great detail by focusing on five of its major systems: emotional, social, cognitive, physical, and reflective. In Teaching to the Brain's Natural Learning Systems , Barbara K. Given has cautiously investigated brain structures and functions of these five systems and applied findings from neurobiology to education without making leaps of judgment or unfounded claims. In this way, Given has translated neuroscience into an educational framework for lesson planning and teaching. From the book description .

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