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OUR READING TOOLBOX: The Reading/Writing-Thinking Connection puts into your hands a unique educational innovation - "Thinking-Centered" Instruction. The workbook guides you to think carefully and clearly about high-quality readings and to respond in writing to the ideas found in these readings. You learn to use 12 specially designed Tools, which help you to think through and gain an understanding of a wide variety of reading materials. These 12 Tools stimulate your independent thinking in a disciplined way. This leads to comprehension in reading and original expression in well-thought-out and clear writing. OUR READING TOOLBOX features a wide range of authentic reading materials from education, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, science, and about social issues. The readings are directly relevant to your experiences and needs, both inside and outside of school. Reading and writing are integrated into every workbook activity and into the 8 types of extended writing activities. In all of these activities you are required to express your thoughts in clear, complete sentences. "Strategies for Thinking-Centered Teaching" are introduced as instructional practices through which the Tools will most effectively stimulate your thinking. OUR READING TOOLBOX will create a "Culture of Thinking" in the classroom. You will come to see that you have a mind that can think, and think very well, when given the chance. You will come to see reading and writing as natural and vital human activities that will be of value to you, both in your education and in your life.

Sincerely Yours is a Capstone Press publication.

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Drawing from his well known methodology, Bill Strong presents a broader application of sentence combining as the basis for teaching writing with the WRITER'S TOOLBOX: A SENTENCE COMBINING WORKSHOP. This exciting new developmental writing text uses a writing process framework and stresses a collaborative approach, while providing students with skill instruction through extensive sentence combining activities. In short, the WRITER'S TOOLBOX is the only text at the developmental level to teach grammar, usage, and punctuation skills in the context of a conceptual framework - one that covers generating and planning, freewriting and drafting, shaping and revising, and editing and proofreading.

In The Invisible Toolbox, parents will learn about the ten priceless tools that will fill their child's toolbox when they read aloud to their child from birth; they'll also learn about the tools they can give themselves to foster these gifts in their children. Practical tips for how and what to read aloud to children through their developmental stages, along with Do's and Don'ts and recommended resources, round out all the practical tools a parent will need to prepare their child for kindergarten and beyond.