Washoe County Library System

A set of high-quality, nationally-accepted, academic standards in reading. These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do before entering second grade. This third in a series of programs covers weeks nineteen through twenty seven of first grade, where kids learn 22 sight words, such as around, 'before, 'write, etc.

"Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who questions it, and who revises it to meet the needs of each year's students." -Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle. Two teachers. Two classrooms. One school year. 180 Days represents the collaboration of two master teachers-Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle-over an entire school year: planning, teaching, and reflecting within their own and each other's classrooms...

Common Core 1st Grade Reading is a set of high-quality, nationally accepted academic standards in reading. This fourth in a series of programs covers weeks 28 through 36 of 1st grade, where kids learn 22 sight words, such as 'those,' 'these,' 'because,' et cetera Join young host Julianna, who explains what sight words are and enthusiastically presents each word, sounds it out slowly, and uses it in a simple sentence with on-screen graphics and illustrations...

Records the experiences of a free-lance writer who embarked on a zany journey into the drug culture. This cult classic of gonzo journalism is the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good times ever committed to the printed page. It is also the tale of a long weekend road trip that has gone down in the annals of American pop culture as one of the strangest journeys ever undertaken. Records the experiences of a free-lance writer...

Buried in information? Cross-eyed over technology? From the bottom of a pile of paper and discs, books, e-books, and scattered thumb drives comes a cry of hope: Make way for the librarians! They want to help. They're not selling a thing. And librarians know best how to beat a path through the googolplex sources of information available to us, writes Marilyn Johnson, whose previous book, The Dead Beat, breathed merry life into the obituary-writing...

Presents a collection of twenty poems written in tribute to well-known poets from around the world. "With this book, you can travel through time and space by using an unexpected tool: poetry. Instead of the same old poems that have been used in countless classrooms, Out of Wonder offers you poems about 20 different poets from throughout history and around the world. Here you’ll find odes to long-departed poets (like Persian mystic Rumi and haiku...

E. L. Doctorow is acclaimed internationally for such novels as Ragtime, Billy Bathgate, and The March. Now here are Doctorow’s rich, revelatory essays on the nature of imaginative thought. In Creationists, Doctorow considers creativity in its many forms: from the literary (Melville and Mark Twain) to the comic (Harpo Marx) to the cosmic (Genesis and Einstein). As he wrestles with the subjects that have teased and fired his...

The editor, journalist, and publishing entrepreneur traces his storied career, sharing insights into his tenures with "Rolling Stone" and "Sports Illustrated," as well as his literary encounters with such personalities as Hunter S. Thompson, Jimmy Buffett, and Steve Jobs.