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Most struggling readers, including those with reading disabilities, have difficulties recognizing printed words. This unique, lucidly written book synthesizes the research on how children learn to read words skillfully and translates it into step-by-step strategies for the classroom. The author demonstrates how to plan and implement a coordinated series of lessons that address letter-sound pairings, decoding and blending, multisyllabic words, sight words, and fluency. The proven techniques presented are applicable across the primary grades; in addition, specific guidance is offered for working with older children who are having difficulties. A highly accessible guide, the book features reproducible forms and checklists.

Reading Strategies for Elementary Students With Learning Difficulties

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Reading Strategies for Elementary Students With Learning Difficulties
William N. (Neil) Bender , and Martha J. Larkin
Manufacturer: Corwin Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0761946594

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Proven instructional techniques are spelled out in a one-stop source for success with struggling young readers!

With an estimated 40% of the country’s elementary students reading below grade level, heightened demands and expectations are being placed on teachers, including national mandates that require implementation of research-proven reading strategies. To alleviate the strain of these added pressures, while promoting increased student success, this indispensable guide outlines a wide array of practical instructional strategies, founded in current research, which have been proven effective in elementary and middle school classrooms across the United States.

Covering everything from phonemic instruction and vocabulary building, to reading comprehension and fluency, this ready reference provides a comprehensive range of instructional options and assessments that can be applied to inclusive classrooms, small groups, and individual teaching situations.

The book’s timely information and tools include:

Tactics and Teaching Tips for immediate implementation, coupled with more detailed strategies that practitioners can easily build upon and integrate
Reflective exercises and activities to reinforce ideas addressed
Ready-to-use graphic organizers, surveys, and sample checklists
Accessible interpretations of brain-based reading research
Web site resources

Reading Strategies for Elementary Students with Learning Disabilities masterfully tackles the challenges associated with learning disabilities and other reading disorders, so students and teachers can not only overcome these difficulties together, but also gain deeper understanding and insight into why reading problems exist. The well-organized text offers best practices that complement federal initiatives, including "No Child Left Behind" and the work of the National Reading Panel (NRP).

Language learning through literature: Strategies for enhancing language, critical thinking, and reading comprehension in students with language difficulties

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Language learning through literature: Strategies for enhancing language, critical thinking, and reading comprehension in students with language difficulties
Vicki Rothstein
Manufacturer: Pro-Ed
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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You don't have to be a twenty-three year old dancer with no savings to end up with the excruciating debts young Iris is confronted with in this latest work by financial and legal advisor Tad Crawford. Every year, thousands of Americans of all ages and backgrounds overtax their bank accounts and credit cards and are left with the tricky task of pulling themselves out of their financial chaos. Rarely can they receive such high-quality financial and moral support as the The Money Mentor provides—and certainly not in the guise of an entertaining, up-beat novel!

The Money Mentor provides debtors and those with risky financial habits with both a first-aid kit and long-term therapy to achieve financial freedom. As the author tells the story of the recovering debtor Iris, he walks his readers through all the stages of money management, from the painful assessment of assets and debts to increasing one's income and starting to save. Choosing a sympathetic "girl-from-next-door" as protagonist, The Money Mentor offers people in financial trouble what they lack most of all: the ability to look at themselves from a healthy distance and realize that there is a way out of their trouble.

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The Money Mentor.......2001-08-08

I liked this book because the financial information is user-friendly and told as a story, which makes it easy to absorb. It is not dry as if coming from a text book. I found the information easy to apply to my life. It is a great resource book that I will keep by my side for a long time. One of the many important things that I remember from the book is that "I have to do what I love" and abundance will follow somehow. I liked the money exercises at the end of the book, because they are very clear to follow. I was so enthusiastic after reading the book that I started working on my numbers right away and collecting the information needed to help improve my finances. I have purchased the book several times already to give it as a gift to my friends. My thanks to the author.

The Money Mentor.......2001-08-08

Manhattan Librarian's recommendation.......2001-04-29

I highly recommend this compelling story of a young woman's coming to terms with debt incurred by overuse of credit cards. Iris Cassidy is a contemporary "Everywoman" whose coming to awareness about her finances also involves a journey of self-discovery that has a profound spiritual dimension. This is a warm-hearted didactic tale, a novel with a message, of one woman's experiences of life, work and relationships, as she wrestles with her realization that she has been spending more than she earns, and resolves to free herself from the burden of debt. In her story, personal transformation occurs through growing self-awareness, with the help of a mentor. She comes to see that forming a viable spending plan for repaying her debts has to make room for what gives joy and makes life meaningful for her--in her case, dancing. This well-written book can give anyone -- young or old -- insight into how to find financial freedom through careful planning and openness to change. It entertains while it teaches, even includes helpful exercises at the end.

A novel way to learn about managing your money.......2001-04-24

This is a work of fiction about an honorable young woman's struggles to get out of debt and get on a firm financial footing. She succeeds with the help of a mentor and by working hard, visits to Debtors Anonymous and much will-power. Along the way, she, and the reader, finds out a great deal about dealing with money in all its aspects in an entertaining way. I am not just starting out in life and I learned a lot.

I liked the book, though I would sock any dentist who tried to talk about compound interest while he was drilling. This could be an excellent gift to give anyone going off to college, or starting a small business, especially an arts business. Anyone heavily in debt might find the heroine a wee bit hard to live up to.

An Entertaining Way to Learn About Money.......2001-04-20

THE MONEY MENTOR by Tad Crawford

This wonderful book is essential for anyone who has had consternation or outright difficulty managing their money. Even for those who are frugal and well organized, it gives extraordinary insights into societal and historical attitudes regarding money and debt. It puts money management into human terms. I alternately cringed (when recognizing my own patterns) and cheered, as the heroine began to pull herself out of the demoralizing trap of debt.

While the book is a fountain of information, there is also a real drama here. By humanizing the problem through the story of a young woman, Iris, plagued by debt and her aid at the hands of a wise and generous mentor, Saidah, it keeps us turning the pages. Instead of a dry lecture filled with advice, this story unfolds as a journey with all the pathos and uncertainty we can recognize in our own battles to balance the cares of earning a living with the real goal of contentment. It's a remarkable work with much more than sound guidance about money management. Filled with history, literature fables and a touch of Zen it is is fascinating and reassuring. We aren't the first generations to be torn apart by money mismanagement.

By the end all I could say is where can I find that mentor? And I want Saidah's telephone number. But I suspect that the author would reply that the mentor can be within us. She is always there in the gift of this book.

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A lucid, slightly dated introduction to JIT and TQC

Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Nine Hidden Lessons in Simplicity
Richard J. Schonberger
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0029291003

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Japanese productivity and quality standards have fired the imagination of American managers, but until now there has been little explanation of how to do it -- how to apply Japanese methods at the actual operating level of U.S. manufacturing plants.

This book shows you how, exposing otherwise well-informed westernized readers to a new world of management ideas. Author Richard J. Schonberger demonstrates that the Japanese formula for success is based on a number of specific, interrelated techniques -- stunning in their simplicity -- and he shows how these techniques can be put to work in American industries today.

Here, in a clear, handbook format, are nine "lessons" for American manufacturers, introducing scores of techniques aimed at simplifying the overly-complex purchasing, inventory, assembly-fine, and quality-control processes of U.S. firms.

At the heart of Japanese manufacturing success are two overlapping strategies: "just-in-time" production and "total quality control." Some American manufacturers already know a little about these methods, but Richard Schonberger provides the most comprehensive description of these techniques available: how they developed, how they all fit together, why they are so potent, and how they "snowball" -- unleashing a powerful chain reaction of productivity and quality control improvements each time more simplification is introduced.

Japanese Manufacturing Techniques will change the way you think. Much of the received wisdom of American management -- "just-in-case" order quantities, statistical sampling for quality Control, and large inventory buffer stocks, for example -- is dismissed by the Japanese as muri, muda, mura: excess, waste, unevenness. In many cases, the Japanese technique is exactly the opposite of American practice ("just-in-time" ordering, quality control at the source, and elimination of buffer stocks altogether).

By emphasizing practical techniques, Schonberger shows how you can implement new methods right away -- without waiting for government policy or market conditions or worker behavior to change. The techniques themselves will improve your productivity and quality, provide strategic advantages in gaining market share, and transform worker behavior. And the author backs his nine lessons with concrete examples of how Japanese techniques are being applied in U.S. plants today.

Nearly 20 tables and figures illustrate the "lessons" given here, and a special appendix describes in full the Toyota-developed kanban inventory system, with the first explanation in English of single-card versus dual-card kanban.

This remarkable book carries you beyond theories and concepts. It's for practical managers who want results: better quality control and greater productivity. Implement these simple steps, and you can begin improving your division's performance now.

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A lucid, slightly dated introduction to JIT and TQC.......2005-09-09

I was lead to this book by a friend who had fueled my curiosity about just-in-time management methods. This is book is an extremely lucid introduction to the Just-in-Time (JIT) philosophy of Japanese manufacturers and also Total Quality Control (TQC). The author explains why and how Japanese techniques like JIT and TQC yield economic, motivational and processual benefits.

The author shows how inventory reduction with input control for quality leads to a long-term benefits in terms of shorter lead time, flexible workers; lower inventory costs; lower storage space; lower marketing costs etc.

He also explains plant configurations and organization of production lines that facilitate these improvements; the kanban or pull-system of inventory replenishment in the assembly line; quality control circles and just in time purchasing.

While some JIT and TQC principles are more applicable to the manufacturing sector many insights can also be transplanted to government and service sectors if the reader builds parallel connections. For example plant configuration design has interesting insights to offer for office workspace design.

On the flip side, the author's enthusiasm for kanban (card-based singalling for material/resource/inventory replenishment) against computer-based material requirements management (MRP) solutions may not seem very prophetic (this book was written in 1982). The author also has a convert's Polyanna enthusiasm.

Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Nine Hidden Lessons in Simplicity

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Japanese Manufacturing Techniques: Nine Hidden Lessons in Simplicity
Richard J. Schonberger
Manufacturer: Free Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA3ROC

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In his Mattioli Lectures, Nobel Laureate Professor Herbert A. Simon directs attention to the kinds of empirical research that are necessary for progress in microeconomics. He traces the development of neoclassical economic theory and its gradual retreat from empiricism to abstraction. He next discusses the importance of business firms to the economic system, and the need for a thoroughly empirical understanding of how organisations work and reach their decisions. Finally, he examines recent innovative approaches to empirical research, including experimental economics, observational methods for studying economic behaviour, and the kinds of simulation models that are needed to interpret decision process. A round-table discussion of these issues follows; the participants, in addition to Professor Simon, are Professors Claudio Dematte, Massimo Egidi, Richard M. Goodwin, Robert Marris, Aldo Montesano, and Riccardo Viale.

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Royalty Free - ReadySetPresent (Inspirational Quotes): Keep your audience focused and engaged by using our carefully selected collection of thoughtful, witty and humorous quotes. Use in a presentation with an LCD projector, make handouts, and create overheads. This topic includes 25 quotes, slide transitions, clipart and animation. It is a must-have supplement for anyone interested in presenting on these or related topics. Packaged on 3.5" floppy disk/s. PC compatible. You may use this product over and over again.

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A Must Have!.......2000-06-23

Lots of good info and pointers for anyone looking for a job in the advertising field. I'm now reading this book for the second time!

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Find out how accurate forecasting and analysis can prevent costly mistakes!

Management Science Applications in Tourism and Hospitality examines innovative tools for evaluating performance and productivity in tourism offices, hotels, and restaurants. This collection of recent studies focuses on two important topics of management science: forecasting and a relatively new analytical methodology called data envelopment analysis (DEA). This book will show you how tourism forecasting accuracy can be enhanced and how DEA can be used to benchmark productivity and improve advertisement efficiency.

Management Science Applications in Tourism and Hospitality provides you with a useful blend of analysis from both theory and real-data perspectives. This book uses case studies, application techniques, and expert advice to review various productivity measurement methods and compare them to DEA, revealing DEA's strengths, weaknesses, and its potential in the operating environment.

With Management Science Applications in Tourism and Hospitality, you'll be able to:

utilize destination benchmarking
perform multiunit restaurant productivity assessments using DEA
conduct hotel labor productivity assessments using DEA
measure and benchmark productivity in the hotel sector using DEA
model tourism demand
use an improved extrapolative hotel room occupancy rate forecasting technique
forecast short-term planning and management for a casino buffet restaurant
apply city perception analysis (CPA) for destination positioning decisions

This book is generously enhanced with tables and figures to substantiate the research. Management Science Applications in Tourism and Hospitality is valuable for hospitality and tourism educators and graduate students learning and doing research in operation analysis. Savvy executives and professionals who want to improve efficiency in their industry will also benefit from the techniques illustrated in this timely guide.

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Management science applications in tourism and hospitality [A book review from: Tourism Management]
N. Leiper
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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ASIN: B000PA9UME

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This digital document is a journal article from Tourism Management, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This book deals with the timely topics of Internet marketing research. Internet marketing has become an important aspect of e-commerce and various concepts/strategies were implemented to support marketing on the Net. However, discovering what's really working or not in Internet marketing requires whole new approaches of quantitative/empirical methods. Internet Marketing Research: Theory and Practice presents a collection that provides the rigorous tests of the Internet marketing phenomenon.

A critical look at the impact of cybercrime on consumer Internet behavior : An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice

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Kenneth A Saban , Elaine McGivern , and Jan Napoleon Saykiewicz
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Explaining and predicting consumer intention to purchase over the Internet: An exploratory study : An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice

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Explaining and predicting consumer intention to purchase over the Internet: An exploratory study : An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
Ronald E Goldsmith
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Online Store Perceptions: How To Turn Browsers Into Buyers? : An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice

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Online Store Perceptions: How To Turn Browsers Into Buyers? : An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
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If you build it, will they come? Barriers to international e-marketing: An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice

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If you build it, will they come? Barriers to international e-marketing: An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
L Jean Harrison-Walker
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The web as a medium: An exploratory comparison of internet users versus newspaper readers: An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice

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The web as a medium: An exploratory comparison of internet users versus newspaper readers: An article from: Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice
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