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With captions from such authorities as Ray Leier, Jan Peters and Kevin Wallace, this book showcases inspiring examples of turned wood, from sculptures to vessels to small treasures.'

From the very first chapter of this informative and inspiring book, a clear picture emerges of how even three- and four-year-olds' capacities for serious authorship can and should be supported. - Lillian G. Katz Coauthor of Young Investigators: The Project Approach in the Early Years By the time they reach preschool or kindergarten, young children are already writers. They don't have much experience, but they're filled with stories to tell and ideas to express - they want to show the world what they know and see. All they need is a nurturing teacher like you to recognize the writer at work within them. All you need to help them is Already Ready. Taking an exciting, new approach to working with our youngest students, Already Ready shows you how, by respecting children as writers, engaged in bookmaking, you can gently nudge them toward a lifetime of joyful writing. Katie Wood Ray and Matt Glover guide you through fundamental concepts of early writing. Providing numerous, helpful examples of early writing - complete with transcriptions - they demonstrate how to: make sense of children's writing and interpret how they represent sounds, ideas, and images see important developmental signs in writers that you can use to help them grow further recognize the thinking young children engage in and discover that it's the same thinking more experienced writers use to craft purposeful, thoughtful pieces. Then Ray and Glover show you how little ones can develop powerful understandings about: texts and their characteristics the writing process what it means to be a writer. You'll learn how to support your writers' quest to make meaning, as they grow their abilities and refine their thinking about writing through teaching strategies such as: reading aloud working side by side with writers sharing children's writing. Writing is just one part of a busy early childhood classroom, but even in little doses, a nurturing approach can work wonders and help children connect the natural writer inside them to a life of expressing themselves on paper. Find that approach, share it with your students, and you'll discover that you don't have to get students ready to write - they're Already Ready.

The traditions of Virginia Tech football are as timeless as any in American sports. This exciting series draws together the insights from nearly 100 former players, coaches, and fans, who tell their personal stories about what being a part of this legendary football program means to them.

"In Lisa Cleaveland's classroom, writing workshop is a time every day when her students make books. Katie Wood Ray guides you through the first days in Lisa's classroom, offering ideas, information, strategies, and tips to show you step by step how you can launch a writing workshop with beginning writers."--book cover

The Impact of Natural Disasters on Systemic Political and Social Inequities in the U.S. examines how natural disasters impact social inequality in the United States. The contributors cover topics such as criminal justice, demographics, economics, history, political science, and sociology to show how effects of natural disasters vary by social and economic class in the United States. This volumestudies social and political mechanisms in disaster response and relief that enable natural disasters to worsen inequalities in America and offers potential solutions.

When Willie Ford's best friend gets swallowed by a house in the Whining Woods, he gathers his friends and they go on a journey to rescue him. Along the way they encounter dragons, bullies, and an evil mage. Are Willie's newly acquired powers enough to overcome the odds and bring his friend home? This book continues the story of Willie and his friends after they return from The Interdimensional Dumpster

Death, destruction, love and greed against the background of a city in flames in the old west As San Francisco burns, Josh Bonner embarks on a rescue mission. Little does he know he will uncover a web of human trafficking, gang wars, and a reassembling of the Vigilance Committee. His wife takes up the cause while an old enemy plots vengeance.Book Six in the Bonner Saga is a collection of Western AdventuresBoomtown Justice is the newest releaseIncident at Blue Lead Creek: Bonner has a stake in several gold claims. He transports the gold back to San Francisco. Bandits have another destination in mind. Vigilante Streets: Lawlessness and corruption rule in San Francisco. A Committee of Vigilance is formed. They call on Josh Bonner, a man with a reputation for action, a man who will get things done. Praise for Boomtown Justice Josh Bonner, and his wife, Elizabeth, flee to his brigantine, Essex, to flee a raging fire in San Francisco. The fire brings destruction, but sheds light on an even deadlier peril facing the booming post-Gold Rush city; the grip that unscrupulous villains, working with Chinese gangs, have on the citizens of the city. Not your typical western, it shows a side of the frontier-the western limits-that doesn't often get covered by the genre. In this riveting tale, you'll be treated to all of the excitement and danger you'll find in your typical story of the Wild West. Everything didn't happen just on the plains or in the mountains. The growing towns out west often had even more danger, and pioneers had to be tough to survive.The old West boom towns like San Francisco were no place for the faint of heart. If you wanted justice, you had to 'do-it-yourself, ' and the protagonists in Boomtown Justice, do it in style.The cavalry doesn't come to the rescue in this tale, these hardy souls are on their own. Gird your loins and buckle your gun belts for a wild ride. Charles Ray, author of the popular Caleb Johnson Mountain Man and Jacob Blade Vigilante series.Did someone shout 'Fire'? If not, someone ought to. This is a red-hot story from Ken Consaul set in San Francisco. The place is burning and there is a rescue mission to be attempted. Can Josh get to them in time with his wife and Charlie? There are other dangers to face on the waterfront and bad men are at work to stop his plans. Josh is going to have his work cut out to do the things he knows to be right if indeed he ever will be able to?Harvey Wood, Author of the Virgil Dalton Mountain Man Series

Examines the theoretical underpinnings of how students learn to write from reading other writers; describes various kinds of inquiry designed to help teachers and students learn how to learn from writers; and includes thoughts from the author on writing and teaching, as well as a selection of resource materials.

"This book, and the accompanying videos, provides teachers with both the why and the how-to information so that they are able to support vocabulary development, across the school day, in their K-3 classrooms"--