Drawing on extensive classroom experience, the authors demonstrate how shy students, reluctant readers, English language learners, and students who may be less active during class discussion become energized when they explore rich Web sites available from popular, respected children's authors. This book illustrates how this easy, no-risk technology--available at a keystroke--offers wide-ranging benefits, including: - Inviting students into a literacy community of readers and writers - Fostering the development of discrete, test-mandated skills - Capitalizing on and deepening students' familiarity with the digital world in ways that enhance their literacy growth

This award-winning book continues to resonate with teachers and inspire their teaching because it focuses on the joy of reading and how it can engage and even transform readers. In a time of next-generation standards that emphasize higher-order strategies, text complexity, and the reading of nonfiction, “You Gotta BE the Book” continues to help teachers meet new challenges, including those of increasing cultural diversity. At the core of Wilhelm’s foundational text is an in-depth account of what highly motivated adolescent readers actually do when they read, and how to help struggling readers take on those same stances and strategies. His work offers a robust model teachers can use to prepare students for the demands of disciplinary understanding and for literacy in the real world. The Third Edition includes new commentaries and tips for using visual techniques, drama and action strategies, think-aloud protocols, and symbolic story representation/reading manipulatives. Book Features: A data-driven theory of literature and literary reading as engagement. A case for undertaking teacher research with students. An approach for using drama and visual art to support readers’ comprehension. Guidance for assisting students in the use of higher-order strategies of reading (and writing) as required by next-generation standards like the Common Core. Classroom interventions to help all students, especially reluctant ones, become successful readers. Online resources, including inquiry unit templates, tools for teaching with drama, and tips for using visual techniques.

THE GROOM CANDIDATE Elena Martin thought she'd hit the jackpot when a computer dating service that guaranteed marriage paired her with darkly handsome businessman Garrett Sims. No man had ever made Elena feel so protected, and his bone-melting kisses ignited unknown passions. So, after their three prearranged dates, she was ready to say "I do." But Garrett was saying "Oh, no!" Seems Garrett had no intention of setting foot near any altar. But thanks to a favor for a family member, he was up to his irresistibly broad shoulders in trouble. Trouble in the form of a warmhearted woman who set his hormones racing and whose blue eyes spelled forever. Now what was a nonmarrying kind of man to do?

A short look into the mind of a teen who has struggled with depression and how she made things positive, and how she hopes to inspire strength in others.

Welcome to Ocean Sands! This four book collection features the novels Starlit Sand, Golden Sand, Midnight Sand, and Exquisite Sand. Starlit Sand Can a sexy rockstar turn a one-night stand into forever? Workaholic family law attorney Lauren Catalano has been burned by love. But meeting a handsome stranger on the beach on the heels of her divorce, she can't ignore the passion he sparks. When Lauren learns her mystery man is rock superstar Noah Devereux, she’s convinced it’ll never last. But one night together turns into more and Lauren resists falling for a man who’s touched her heart in a way she never thought possible. Humiliated by his supermodel ex’s infidelity, Noah questions the worth of his fame and fortune if all it earns him are hollow relationships and betrayal. Lauren’s honesty and loyalty hit Noah hard and he starts to believe that Lauren’s the woman he needs in his life. Will Noah convince Lauren to believe in happily ever after or will their affair end in more heartbreak? Golden Sand Money can't buy what this billionaire desires most... Computer tycoon Dominic Russell has more money than he ever imagined, but he’s missing something that money can’t buy. When he meets Eden Bell, he’s intrigued by the down-on-her-luck waitress. A relentless competitor, Dominic sets his sights on winning her heart. Fiercely independent Eden Bell doesn’t believe in true love. She’s been burned before, and while Dominic’s attention is flattering, she doesn’t expect the committed bachelor to fall for her and her ready-made family. The charming entrepreneur proves hard to resist, and the two embark on a relationship that could change them both forever. But Eden’s been hiding a life-changing secret from Dominic, and if it comes to light, the truth could tear them apart. Midnight Sand One hot night and now she's carrying his baby... Sought-after bachelor Ethan Davenport has been in love only once—and when it ended in disaster, he swore to never let it happen again. The black sheep of his family, he does things his own way—alone. But a one-night stand opens his eyes to the woman who’s been there for him all along. Scarred from the past, Faith Bishop won’t ever tell Ethan how she feels about him. She tells herself they’re just friends…until one night changes everything. When she becomes pregnant with the billionaire’s baby, she can’t hold back her hopes for a real future with Ethan. Faith’s used to making it on her own, and she doesn’t know if she can trust Ethan to give her the family she’s never had. But Ethan won’t lose his friend and his baby in his life. He’ll do anything to prove to Faith that he’s changed…and she’s the reason why. Exquisite Sand It's about to get hot in the kitchen… Stacy Frederick’s rebuilt her life after the death of her husband, but her wrecked heart isn’t ready to love again. Even her intense attraction to celebrity chef William Blackwell, who’s spending the summer in Ocean Sands, can’t change her mind. She has other things to keep her busy, like saving the floundering restaurant where she works, and consequently securing the promotion that’s been dangled in front of her. William says he can respect Stacy’s boundaries. In Ocean Sands recovering after a battle of his own, he’s under strict orders to rest and recover. Spending a few weeks helping an old friend is just the distraction he needs. No drama is a good thing, and his finger-snap attraction to Stacy should burn itself out any day now… While working shoulder to shoulder, Stacy begins to fall for the handsome chef with Southern charm, and getting a second chance at love starts to feel irresistible...

A collection of bestselling romance novels featuring sizzling bosses and strong heroines destined to be together. The Playboy Billionaire The Billionaire’s Proposition An Unexpected Bride

When Sally’s family moves to Miami Beach for the winter of 1947, she is excited and nervous at the same time. What will school be like in Florida? Will she make any friends? Will she fit in so far away from home? Miami Beach has so many things to worry and wonder about, Sally is in for one unforgettable winter!

Cyra finally has all her mates back, but now they have to fight to make it through the rest of Cyra's pregnancy alive… After weeks of being in hiding with two of her Alpha mates, griffin Spence and centaur Liam, not knowing where her other two Alpha mates, hydra Zack and cerberus Max, are or if they’re even alive, the five mates are finally reunited. Though things haven't gotten much easier since then. From the moment Cyra agreed to attend the Night Gala with Max and Liam, and running into Zack and Spence at the party, everything seems to have gone wrong in her life. She’s been hounded by the paparazzi. Her parents have been spreading lies about her in the media, including that she supposedly has already been promised to another Alpha. Two of her mates have been kidnapped and sent to the other side of the world. And they’ve all been attacked, multiple times. Now, at ten weeks pregnant, Cyra is about to fight her toughest battle yet. Not against her parents, or the media, or society at large, but against the kidnapper of her mates. An Alpha phoenix who is convinced that Cyra, the first Omega phoenix in generations that the world knows about, belongs with her, and she’s already proven the lengths she’ll go through to get Cyra for herself. The whole world watches as Cyra fights for her life, for her mates and her family. As Cyra does everything in her power to make sure that they have a future, that their struggles from the last couple of months haven’t been for nothing. She shows the world that it's dangerous to underestimate an Omega, especially an angry Omega phoenix. She shows them that she won't stop until her family can finally live in peace, no matter what she has to do to get it. This is the fourth and final book in the Her Shifter Harem’s Babies series, a paranormal Omegaverse reverse harem #WhyChoose story. This book may include any of these elements: steamy scenes, ‘I need tissues NOW’ moments, cries of ‘why, oh, why’ and cliffhangers that make you bite your nails (and curse the author).

"Blue Ice" is not an attempt to be catchy or complicated. These are just words that give away emotion and substance to the expressions that fall all around "thin ice". They are just words that apply to what I write about most - relationships of the intimate kind - often those not considerate of our welfare or worth. I have wrestled an almost innate need to rescue and fix people, obeying false commandments and paying penance to procure my own good, and believe I deserve it. What makes it too daring to save ourselves before extending an arm through shards of blue ice, clutching a hand held offering... still beating? I do not want you to think this is a dark book shrilling prophetic doom in contorted faces. It is about rising up on the power of our own self-worth. It is about being anchored by the shouts from lamp lit watch towers, old draw bridges, and warmed stick built shacks - everywhere. If there is obscurity in my poems and stories, it's so you may see yourself in a few words, a phrase or sentence, and chisel or sculpt what you need to find in one spring fed pocket of air that you are not alone. ... it is in the wrestling with cold swirling waters that we find our bliss, sustain it breath by breath, and round by round. Am I on thin ice? Maybe, but I can see blue a safe distance away. Just words...