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Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program: Nonfiction Student Workbooks, Grade 5, Social Studies (Set of 5) book cover

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Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program Nonfiction Student Workbooks, Grade 5, Social Studies (Set of 5)

By Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Tamra Stambaugh Copyright 2019
    44 Pages
    by Prufrock Press

    Corresponding to the activities in Jacob's Ladder: Nonfiction, Grade 5, students read high-interest passages, then complete skill ladders connected to the fiction and nonfiction comparisons to move them from concrete thinking skills to higher order, critical thinking skills.

    The student workbooks feature ample room for student responses and notes, make reviewing and providing feedback on student work easier than ever, provide students with an easy-to-use reference to use during discussions, and save time, as there is no need to reproduce student handouts.

    Excerpt From “Seeing Red: The Cold War and American Public Opinion” Excerpt From “Their Finest Hour” Woman’s Rights to the Suffrage Ain’t I A Woman? Comparison Ladder for “Woman’s Rights to the Suffrage” and “Ain’t I a Woman?” Excerpt From William Faulkner Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, 1950 Excerpt From Mario Vargas Llosa Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, 2010 Comparison Ladders for “Excerpt From William Faulkner Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, 1950” and “Excerpt From Mario Vargas Llosa Nobel Prize Banquet Speech, 2010” Remains of the Past: Roman Art and Architecture Jacob Lawrence Duke Ellington

    Biography

    Joyce VanTassel-Baska, Ed.D., is the Jody and Layton Smith Professor Emerita of Education and former Executive Director of the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary in Virginia, where she developed a graduate program and a research and development center in gifted education. She also initiated and directed the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University.

    Dr. Tamra Stambaugh is the Director of Programs for Talented Youth at Vanderbilt University. She is the coauthor (with Dr. Joyce VanTassel-Baska) of Comprehensive Curriculum for Gifted Learners, Overlooked Gems: A National Perspective on Low-Income Promising Students, and the Jacob's Ladder Reading Comprehension Program.

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