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| yolonda's genius reading level: Reading Raps Rita Soltan, 2005-12-30 Book clubs are sprouting up all over, and so are book club guides—but not all book club guides are equal. Many focus on a specific type of book club, or they take a generic approach of one size fits all; and most do not take into account the special needs of librarians and educators working with young readers. This guide has it all, and it will help you ensure that your book club meetings are both fun and educational. Focusing on children in grades 3-8 (and their families), the book offers 100 ready-made book club instructions for popular children's and YA titles—from newer releases, such as Theresa Nelson's Ruby Electric and Blue Balliett's Chasing Vermeer to perennial favorites and award-winning classics, such as Johanna Hurwitz's Much Ado about Aldo and Gary Soto's Baseball in April and Other Stories. Along with thought-provoking discussion questions, you'll find all the background information you need to conduct lively book discussions with a variety of readers-plot summary, themes and characters description, genre, reading level, author and award information, related reads, and more. The guide describes four types of family-oriented book clubs—family, mother/daughter, father/son, and readers' rap—as well as a book club for kids only. The author provides practical instructions for making each type of book club successful. For each title, she provides a plot summary, characterization sketches, questions to use for provocative discussion, and follow-up bibliographies on similar reads. Notes on genres, themes, and reading levels are also provided. The selected titles reflect some of the best, most current, and most popular children's literature. In addition, a broad scope of genres and multicultural titles are included. Perfect for public library programs and after school book clubs, this is a one-stop resource, with practical, ready-made plans that can easily be adapted to multiple environments. Grades 3-8. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: The King of Dragons Carol Fenner, 2002-01-01 Eleven-year-old Ian and his Vietnam veteran father have been homeless for years, but now his father has found a perfect place for them—an abandoned city courthouse with heat, plenty of bathrooms, and lots of exits and entrances. Then, two things happen that threaten Ian’s fragile security: his father disappears, leaving Ian to fend for himself with the survival skills he’s learned through the years, and Ian discovers that a local museum is mounting an exhibition of kites in the courthouse.Suddenly, Ian’s safe hideaway is filled with people—and with extraordinary, beautiful kites that spark Ian’s imagination and draw him out of his shadow existence. Will the kites be Ian’s downfall…or his salvation? |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Children's Book Corner Judy Bradbury, 2006-07-30 Provides teachers, librarians, and parents with tips, techniques, activities, and twenty-five read-aloud plans for books that can be used with children in fifth and sixth grade. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Living in . . . China Chloe Perkins, 2016-07-05 Read what it is like to live in China. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Randall's Wall Carol Fenner, 2000 Randall Lord, destitute and filthy-dirty, retreats behind an invisible wall that isolates and protects him from the cruelty of others--until his talent for drawing and the unexpected friendship of a classmate cause Randall's wall to crumble. Then a new world opens up for him. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: You Don't Even Know Me Sharon Flake, 2010-03-08 In 9 stories and 15 poems, Sharon G. Flake provides insight into the minds of a diverse group adolescent African American males. here's Tow-Kaye, getting married at age 16 to love of his life, who's pregnant. He knows it's the right thing to do, but he's scared to death. James writes in his diary about his twin brother's terrible secret, which threatens to pull James down, too. Tyler explains what it's like to be a player with the ladies. In a letter to his uncle, La'Ron confesses that he's infected with HIV. Eric takes us on a tour of North Philly on the Fourth of July, when the heat could make a guy go crazy. Still, he loves his hood. These and other unforgettable characters come to life in this collection of urban male voices. Sharon's G. Flake's talent for telling it like it is will leave readers thinking differently, feeling deeply, and definitely wanting more. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Leveled Books for Readers, Grades 3-6 Gay Su Pinnell, Irene C. Fountas, 2002 Includes more than 6000 leveled books - cover. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: The Dumb Bunnies' Easter Dav Pilkey, 2009 On Christmas Eve, Momma, Poppa, and Baby Bunny, believing that it is Easter, prepare to celebrate the holiday in their own Dumb Bunny style. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Rules (Scholastic Gold) Cynthia Lord, 2013-09-24 This Newbery Honor Book is a heartfelt and witty story about feeling different and finding acceptance--beyond the rules. Rules joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!Twelve-year-old Catherine just wants a normal life. Which is near impossible when you have a brother with autism and a family that revolves around his disability. She's spent years trying to teach David the rules from a peach is not a funny-looking apple to keep your pants on in public -- in order to head off David's embarrassing behaviors.But the summer Catherine meets Jason, a surprising, new sort-of friend, and Kristi, the next-door friend she's always wished for, it's her own shocking behavior that turns everything upside down and forces her to ask: What is normal? |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Something about the Author Kevin Hile, 1997 Contains biographical information and critical essays concerning the works of over 100 authors and illustrators of children's works. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Back to School, Weird Kids Rule! Dan Gutman, 2014 A hurricane ends A.J.'s vacation in Bermuda early and forces him and his family to stay at Andrea's house, where he fights with Andrea and has to go back-to-school shopping. Then their parents send them to the weirdest day camp ever. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: The Power of Team Leadership George Barna, 2013-04-03 Most leadership in today’s churches comes from “solo practitioners”--individuals who bear the burden of providing all the direction the ministry they direct requires. Inevitably, this results not only in burned-out leaders, but underutilized lay people who merely attend and observe rather than becoming actively engaged in ministry, growing in discipleship, and freeing professional staff to focus on pastoral priorities. In The Power of Team Leadership, noted researcher George Barna demonstrates the incredible difference lay-team leadership can make in a church’s ministry. Based on Barna’s latest national studies, the book sets forth clearly what churches need to know in order to recruit, train, and deploy lay leadership teams for maximum effectiveness in the Kingdom of God. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: The Fountas and Pinnell Leveled Book List K-8 Irene C. Fountas, Gay Su Pinnell, 2006 A printed, bound version of the official Fountas & Pinnell leveled book list, sorted by title and by level. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Bowker's Guide to Characters in Fiction , 2003 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Access , 1995 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Alexander Payne Leo Adam Biga, 2016-09 Leo Biga has reported on the career of filmmaker Alexander Payne for 20 years. In this updated collection of essays, the author-journalist-blogger offers the only comprehensive look at Payne's career and creative process. Based in Payne's hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, Biga has been granted access to location shooting for Nebraska and Sideways, the latter filmed in California's wine country. Biga has also been given many exclusive interviews by Payne and his creative collaborators. His insightful analysis of Payne's films and personal journey has been praised by Payne for its honesty, thoughtfulness, and accuracy. The two-time Oscar-winner calls Biga's articles, the most complete and perceptive of any journalist's anywhere. Payne's films are celebrated for their blend of humor and honest look at human relationships. Members of Hollywood's A-List, including George Clooney (The Descendants), Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt), Reese Witherspoon (Election), Paul Giamatti (Sideways), Laura Dern (Citizen Ruth), and Bruce Dern (Nebraska), have starred in his films. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Raising Free People Akilah S. Richards, 2020-11-01 No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems truly designed for any human to learn, grow, socialize, and thrive, regardless of age, ability, background, or access to money. Families and conscious organizations across the world are healing generations of school wounds by pivoting into self-directed, intentional community-building, and Raising Free People shows you exactly how unschooling can help facilitate this process. Individual experiences influence our approach to parenting and education, so we need more than the rules, tools, and “bad adult” guilt trips found in so many parenting and education books. We need to reach behind our behaviors to seek and find our triggers; to examine and interrupt the ways that social issues such as colonization still wreak havoc on our ability to trust ourselves, let alone children. Raising Free People explores examples of the transition from school or homeschooling to unschooling, how single parents and people facing financial challenges unschool successfully, and the ways unschooling allows us to address generational trauma and unlearn the habits we mindlessly pass on to children. In these detailed and unabashed stories and insights, Richards examines the ways that her relationships to blackness, decolonization, and healing work all combine to form relationships and enable community-healing strategies rooted in an unschooling practice. This is how millions of families center human connection, practice clear and honest communication, and raise children who do not grow up to feel that they narrowly survived their childhoods. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Words on Cassette , 1999 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Library of Michigan Access , 1994 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Character Focalization in Children’s Novels Don K. Philpot, 2017-03-01 This book offers a comprehensive analysis of character focalization in ten contemporary realistic children’s novels. The author argues that character focalization, defined as the location of fictional world perception in the mind of a character, is a prominent textual structure in these novels. He demonstrates how significant meanings are conveyed in a variety of forms related to characters’ personal and interpersonal experiences. Through close analysis of each text, moreover, he exposes distinctive perceptual, psychological, and social-psychological patterns in the opening chapters of each novel, which are thereafter developed by the principles of continuation, augmentation, and reconfiguration. This book will appeal to scholars, teachers, and students in the fields of narrative studies, stylistics, children’s literature scholarship, linguistics, and education. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Black Masculinity and the Cinema of Policing Jared Sexton, 2017-11-07 This book offers a critical survey of film and media representations of black masculinity in the early twenty-first-century United States, between President George W. Bush’s 2001 announcement of the War on Terror and President Barack Obama’s 2009 acceptance of the Nobel Peace Prize. It argues that images of black masculine authority have become increasingly important to the legitimization of contemporary policing and its leading role in the maintenance of an antiblack social order forged by racial slavery and segregation. It examines a constellation of film and television productions—from Antoine Fuqua’s Training Day to John Lee Hancock’s The Blind Side to Barry Jenkin's Moonlight—to illuminate the contradictory dynamics at work in attempts to reconcile the promotion of black male patriarchal empowerment and the preservation of gendered antiblackness within political and popular culture. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Dmitry's Closet Latrivia S. Nelson, 2009 Orphaned virgin Royal Stone is looking for employment in one of the country's toughest recessions. What she finds is the seven-foot, blond millionaire Dmitry Medlov, who offers her a job as the manager of his new boutique. What she does not know is that her knight in shining armor is also the head of the Medlov Organized Crime Family. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: K-12 Blended Teaching Jered Borup, Cecil Short, Leanna Archambault, Charles Graham, 2019-03-08 This book is the color print version (go here for the black and white version: http://bit.ly/k12blended-print). This book is your guide to blended teaching in K-12 settings. It was designed to help both pre-service and in-service teachers prepare their classes for blended teaching. The book can be accessed in several different formats at http://edtechbooks.org/k12blended.This book begins by orienting you to the foundational dispositions and skills needed to support your blended teaching practice. Then you will be introduced to four key competencies for blended teaching which are: (1) Online Integration - ability to effectively combine online instruction with in-person instruction. (2) Data Practices - ability to use digital tools to monitor student activity and performance in order to guide student growth. (3) Personalization - ability to implement a learning environment that allows for student customization of goals, pace, and/or learning path. (4) Online Interaction - ability to facilitate online interactions with and between students. The final chapter of the book helps you bring all four competencies together as you implement blended teaching in your classroom. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Yonder Tony Johnston, 2002 Tony Johnston majored in history at Stanford University, and is the author of many books, including Desert Dog and Desert Song. Born in Los Angeles, she now resides in San Marino, California. Illustrator Lloyd Bloom holds a master's degree in fine arts from Indiana University. An illustrator and painter, he lives in Brooklyn, New York. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Sugar Rush Johnny Iuzzini, Wes Martin, 2014-09-30 James Beard–award-winning pastry chef Johnny Iuzzini returns to basics in this complete baking course in a book with everything a home baker needs to confidently turn out 150+ sweets with sophisticated flavors. Iuzzini starts by sharing his expert tips on fundamentals such as making caramel and mixing butter cakes, with accompanying step-by-step photographs, before moving on to recipes for Salted Caramels and Sticky Caramel Date Cake. After mastering the simple method for making light-as-air meringues, anyone can make ethereal espresso marshmallows, mile-high soufflés, and chewy French macaron sandwich cookies. Readers can finally expand their cake and ice cream horizons to embrace flavors as thrilling as those in Brown Sugar-Molasses Layer Cake and Bitter Orange Ice Cream. The 250 photographs include both instructive technique shots to reassure bakers at every turn as well as stunning photographs of the ready-to-eat treats. With Sugar Rush, baking at home has never been easier—or more inviting. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: An Introduction to Sociology Anthony Giddens, Mitchell Duneier, 2000-04-01 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Harmonica For Dummies Winslow Yerxa, 2009-01-29 Are you hankering to play the harmonica? Harmonica For Dummies is an easy-to-read practice guide that gives you step-by-step instructions and gets you making music in no time! Even if you’re an experienced harmonica player, this jump-in-anywhere reference is packed with tips and playing techniques that will take your skills to the next level. This fast, fun, hands-on guide helps you choose your first harmonica and shows you how to hold it, make your first sounds, and keep it clean and working well. Helpful diagrams show you how to shape sounds using your tongue, throat, and hands. Before you know it you’ll be playing melodies, chugging out rhythms, and bending notes with ease. You’ll also pick up some basics of music theory and learn how to read the notation and tablature for all the music in the book. Discover how to: Play right out of the box with little or no experience using an inexpensive diatonic harmonica in the key of C Make that wonderful wailing sound Create exciting rhythms and play solo Understand how the harmonica works Play all of the music on the Bonus CD Read tablature, educate your eye, and develop your ear Breath correctly while playing Bend notes up and down Play one harp in many keys Develop your style in blues rock, country, folk, and more Play with other musicians Work with a microphone to create great sounds So stop dreaming and start playing! Harmonica For Dummies will get you wailing in no time! Note: CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: My Weirdest School #3: Miss Brown Is Upside Down! Dan Gutman, 2015-10-20 With more than 12 million books sold, the My Weird School series really gets kids reading! In this third book in the laugh-out-loud My Weirdest School series, the Brain Games are coming to Ella Mentry School! Miss Brown will help the kids do creative projects, like building a bridge out of toothpicks and designing a remote control car. But the kids are up against some tough competition. They will have to compete against the students of Dirk School to win the grand prize: a free trip to PizzaWorld! Perfect for reluctant readers and word lovers alike, Dan Gutman's hugely popular My Weird School series has something for everyone. Don't miss the hilarious adventures of A.J. and the gang! |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Gorilla Gorilla Carol Fenner, 1973 Describes the birth and youth of a male gorilla in the East African highlands and his subsequent experiences living in a zoo. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Forthcoming Books Rose Arny, 2004 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: The Name is the Same Elfrieda H. Hiebert, Kana Riley, 1996 A learn-to-read story about two kids with the same name. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Cousins Virginia Hamilton, 1990 Eleven-year-old Cammy is irritated by her cousin Patty Ann's seeming perfection until a tragedy forces her to learn about forgiveness and family love. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: The Harp Handbook Steve Baker, 1990 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Mister Satan's Apprentice Adam Gussow, Adam Gussow is a writer and blues harmonica player. He is associate professor of English and southern studies at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Dialogical Networks Ivan Leudar, Jiří Nekvapil, 2022-03-27 This book brings together two decades of work by the authors on dialogical networks, showing how the concept of the dialogical network developed through series of connected case studies and clarifying the concept through historical analysis. Identifying the key characteristics of dialogical networks and showing that knowledge of them, though formulated in the abstract, is affected by historical contingencies, it demonstrates that work on dialogical networks required the work of a practical historian, connecting contemporary work to foregoing studies. As such, this volume represents an original study of how doing history is a part of research and sheds light on the ways in which people use the past in their social activities. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Children's Books in Print, 2007 , 2006 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Buddhism and Whiteness George Yancy, Emily McRae, 2019 In this unprecedented book, contributors use Buddhist philosophical and contemplative traditions, both ancient and modern, and deploy critical philosophy of race, and critical whiteness studies, to address the proverbial elephant in the room - whiteness. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Everyday Cheapskate Mary Hunt, 2021-11-20 |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Death of a Hero Richard Aldington, 2025-01-13T00:00:00Z First published in 1929 and now public domain in the US and Canada, ''Death of a Hero'' is the story of a young English artist named George Winterbourne who enlists in the army at the beginning of World War I. The book is narrated by a first-person narrator who knows and serves with the main character. The author Aldington, a veteran of World War I, wrote the work as largely autobiographical and claimed that his novel was accurate in terms of speech and style. It contains extensive colloquial speech, including profanity, discussion of sexuality and graphic descriptions of the war and of trench life. There was extensive censorship in England and many war novels had been banned or burned as a result. Today, this is considered one of the great war novels of World War 1. |
| yolonda's genius reading level: Library Hotline , 1996 |
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Yolonda Ross is an American actress, writer and director. Ross was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska. [1] . She began her acting career in New York, appearing in the episodes of …
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Feb 25, 2025 · Yolonda Ross is an American actress, writer, and film director who rose to fame for playing the lead role of Nadine in a 2002 film known as Antwone Fisher. She then played …
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Yolonda Ross was born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Chi (2018), The Get Down (2016) and Whitney (2015).
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Jan 19, 2024 · Yolonda Ross is an American actress, writer, and director who is famous for her roles in movies and series such as The Chi (2018), The Get Down (2016), and Whitney. She …
Bio - Yolonda Ross
Yolonda is a mentor for Reel Works in NYC, and serves as a Co-Chair of the Reel Works Gala 2025. Reel Works mentors youth in all areas of film behind the camera.
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Actress known for playing Claudia Gelvin in the ABC legal thriller How to Get Away with Murder. She portrayed Jada Washington in the Showtime series The Chi. She also guest starred in …
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Yolanda Hadid (/ həˈdiːd / hə-DEED; née van den Herik; formerly Foster; born 11 January 1964) [1][2] is a Dutch-born American television personality and former model. She is best known as …
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Actress, Writer, Director, Humanitarian. Gotham Award Winner, Two-Time Spirit Award Nominee, Gotham and Black Reel Award nominee, Yolonda can be seen as series regular Jada …
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