In this book, leading researchers spotlight how dramatically the practice of adoption has changed both in North America and Europe in recent decades due to, among other factors, a falling rate of domestically born infants being placed for adoption. This has resulted in a rise in international adoption, children of color being placed with Caucasian parents, increased foster care and special needs adoptions including children exposed to prenatal alcohol and drug use as well as maltreatment by birth parents. Also examined is the far more diverse group of adults being granted adoption rights, including single and homosexual parents. Research findings demonstrate the trend across countries toward open adoption, wherein the birth parents and adoptive parents meet to share information. As the editors note, there is no longer a typical adopted child or a typical adoptive family.
Paralleling these changes has been a growing interest in the study of adopted children and adoptive parents. Although earlier research showed adoptees more likely to experience school problems and psychological disorders, recent studies show the differences in these areas between adoptees and non-adoptees to be relatively small. Models guiding adoption research are beginning to emphasize resilience and positive adaptation, rather than risk and psychopathology. This handbook will be of interest to all involved with adoption policy and practice.

I Am Reading: Nurturing Young Children's Meaning Making and Joyful Engagement with Any Book

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Glover, Matt

Collins, Kathy

Psychology & Counseling

Heinemann

Libricide: The Regime-Sponsored Destruction of Books and Libraries in the Twentieth Century

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings, declared German poet Heinrich Heine. This book identifies the regime-sponsored, ideologically driven, and systemic destruction of books and libraries in the 20th century that often served as a prelude or accompaniment to the massive human tragedies that have characterized a most violent century. Using case studies of libricide committed by Nazis, Serbs in Bosnia, Iraqis in Kuwait, Maoists during the Cultural Revolution in China, and Chinese Communists in Tibet, Knuth argues that the destruction of books and libraries by authoritarian regimes was sparked by the same impulses toward negation that provoked acts of genocide or ethnocide.
Readers will learn why some people―even those not subject to authoritarian regimes―consider the destruction of books a positive process. Knuth promotes understanding of the reasons behind extremism and patterns of cultural terrorism, and concludes that what is at stake with libricide is nothing less than the preservation and continuation of the common cultural heritage of the world. Anyone committed to freedom of expression and humanistic values will embrace this passionate and valuable book.

Craft and Process Studies: Units That Provide Writers with Choice of Genre

Business & Money

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: <ul>
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make sense of children's writing and interpret how they represent sounds, ideas, and images</li> <li>
see important developmental signs in writers that you can use to help them grow further</li> <li>
recognize the thinking young children engage in and discover that it's the same thinking more experienced writers use to craft purposeful, thoughtful pieces.</li> </ul> Then Ray and Glover show you how little ones can develop powerful understandings about: <ul>
<li>texts and their characteristics </li> <li>the writing process</li> <li>what it means to be a writer.</li> </ul> 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: <ul>
<li>reading aloud</li> <li>working side by side with writers</li> <li>sharing children's writing.</li> </ul> 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.

Already Ready: Nurturing Writers in Preschool and Kindergarten

Reference

Ray, Katie Wood

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

As teachers, we do indeed live narrative lives, and if you read Engaging Young Writers, Preschool to Grade 1, Matt Glover will help you live out new kinds of stories with the children you teach. I know he's helped me do just that. I'm a better teacher because of what I've learned from him. Katie Wood Ray Author of About the Authors We are so fortunate to have this book. Matt shares his deep understanding of young writers, presents a thoughtful and warm approach to teaching writing, and shows us how to nudge children in ways that are considerate of their interests and intentions as well as their intellectual development. -Kathy Collins Author of Growing Readers Many children come to school wanting to write. But some are unsure about getting started or don't realize they have something to say. Motivating students to put markers to paper is the key that unlocks a lifetime of writing. Engaging Young Writers presents a range of entry points that help every student find a way into writing. In Engaging Young Writers, Matt Glover (coauthor of Already Ready) presents ways to encourage students to pick up the pen and share their remarkable thinking. With multiple entry points for writers, he helps you match your teaching to children's individual interests and patterns of learning. Glover shows how you can: <ul>
<li>nudge writers into action through meaning, choice, and purpose </li> <li>invite preschool children to write through conversation and invite primary students through units of study </li> <li>spark imaginative writing through read-aloud and dramatic play </li> <li>inspire kids to write stories from personal experiences </li> <li>give students the chance to share their passions and interests through nonfiction writing. </li> </ul>
Engaging Young Writers features teaching tested in real classrooms and the student samples to back it up. Glover takes special care to address how his ideas can be applied to the unique developmental needs of writers in preschool, kindergarten, and grade one. Inside every child is a writer. Inside you is the desire to give children a great start. Inside Engaging Young Writers is the teaching to help you create that wonderful moment when your students decide to become the writer within.

Engaging Young Writers, Preschool-Grade 1

"When you create a unit of study, it's tempting to think you know exactly what will happen on day 5, 13, or 18. But you can't know. As soon as a unit starts, we begin making adjustments. This book shares a process for projecting a unit of study so you can make decisions as you respond to students each day." Matt Glover and Mary Alice Berry As a teacher, you value instructional flexibility because, after all, nearly anything can happen-and does! Yet you still have to plan instruction that helps your writers meet curricular objectives. Helping you solve this dilemma is what Projecting Possibilities for Writers is all about. You can't know exactly when in a unit of study students will need extra support or be ready for a particular minilesson. That's why Matt Glover and Mary Alice Berry show how to project rather than plan-to design a sequence of instruction that not only supports deep understanding but gives you the agency to respond to individual needs and meet key writing standards. Projecting Possibilities for Writers shares how to determine what to teach during a unit, how to teach it, and why to teach it-as well as when to make the crucial adjustments that this flexible approach makes possible. You'll look over Mary Alice's shoulder as she plans a unit for her writing workshop, while "Try It Out" suggestions lead you to project your own units. Solve the flexibility vs. planning dilemma! Trust Projecting Possibilities for Writers and learn to teach with a roadmap rather than a rigid set of directions as you create learning experiences for classes of individual students with individual needs.

Projecting Possibilities for Writers: The How, What, and Why of Designing Units of Study, K-5

Education & Teaching

Berry, Mary Alice

Schools & Teaching

"It's not surprising that schools have the power to either help or hinder students in becoming more self-directed. This book will show you how to teach, plan, and speak in ways that nurture kids to become even more self-directed during writing workshop, as well as pave the way for them to become self-directed adults." -Leah Mermelstein "I'm done. What should I do now?" If you hear this question all too often during the independent work portion of writing workshop, Leah Mermelstein has a solution for making this time more productive for both students and teachers. Along with making time for writing workshop every day, and planning long-term for it, Leah argues that the "third essential element," creating self-directed writers, is key to the success of writing workshops. Using a wealth of classroom anecdotes, student samples and specific teaching language, Leah illustrates how even the youngest students can become self-directed learners. Her explicit strategies include: <ul>
<li>creating an appropriate physical environment along with daily rituals and routines </li> <li>scaffolding instruction with Write Alouds and Interactive Writing </li> <li>planning units, focus lessons, conferences, and shares that are aimed at helping kids become self-directed. </li> </ul>
Leah details 10 qualities that teachers can nurture in students to help them meet and exceed the Common Core State Standards in a high quality writing workshop. Give Leah's practical strategies and tips a try, and transform your writing workshop from a chorus of "what next?" to the quiet hum of deeply engaged kids. Download a sample chapter here.

Self-Directed Writers: The Third Essential Element in the Writing Workshop

Mermelstein, Leah

It's vital that we support young children's reading in ways that nurture healthy reading identities, that foster an attraction to books and a love of reading, and that teach them how make meaning in any text they choose, whether or not they can read the words. -Kathy Collins and Matt Glover What do we see when young children interact with books before they can read the words? Kathy Collins and Matt Glover see real reading, characterized by purposeful meaning-making and opportunities for reading growth and language development. "One of our biggest hopes," write Kathy and Matt, "is to help you see and value all of the powerful work young children do as readers." With I Am Reading you'll see that fostering what little ones do before they can read the words is important early instruction. Kathy and Matt show how to nurture, nudge, and instruct young readers to make meaning in any text, whether or not they are reading the words. They share: <ul>
<li>observation guides for children reading any kind of book</li> <li>specific descriptions of language and independence development </li> <li>sample reading conferences and whole-class minilessons</li> <li>suggestions for creating reading opportunities in preschool and reading workshops in K-1</li> <li>action plans to get you going</li> <li>25 online video clips of children making meaning and teachers supporting them.</li> </ul>
I Am Reading pairs two important voices in early literacy to remind us that we're teaching children, not reading levels. "In the rush toward ever higher reading levels in the early years," write Kathy and Matt, "we may fail to value the strategy use and high-level thinking children do before they are reading conventionally." Join Kathy and Matt and look anew at your young readers so you can provide the kind of support that gets them off to a great start.

Engaging Young Writers, Preschool-Grade 1 (Print eBook Bundle)

Projecting Possibilities for Writers (Print eBook Bundle): The How, What, and Why of Designing Units of Study, K-5

Already Ready (Print eBook Bundle): Nurturing Writers in Preschool and Kindergarten

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I Am Reading: Nurturing Young Children's Meaning Making and Joyful Engagement with Any Book

Craft and Process Studies: Units That Provide Writers with Choice of Genre

Already Ready: Nurturing Writers in Preschool and Kindergarten

Engaging Young Writers, Preschool-Grade 1

Projecting Possibilities for Writers: The How, What, and Why of Designing Units of Study, K-5

Self-Directed Writers: The Third Essential Element in the Writing Workshop

I Am Reading: Nurturing Young Children's Meaning Making and Joyful Engagement with Any Book

Engaging Young Writers, Preschool-Grade 1 (Print eBook Bundle)

Projecting Possibilities for Writers (Print eBook Bundle): The How, What, and Why of Designing Units of Study, K-5

Already Ready (Print eBook Bundle): Nurturing Writers in Preschool and Kindergarten