Best Selling Books by Robin Stevens

Use the Champion Tester to determine what your students have learned throughout the Champion program and areas where they need more practice.

Rezoom The Journey was written to encourage you to finish. Packed with inspiration to dust off old dreams, visions, and goals, Robin openly shares her struggle to finishing, with the hope that it will encourage others on that same path. She was able to get back on track, and in proper balance, shares her story here. This is hope for the frustrated, disappointed, and those who may have lost passion for their aspirations and dreams. It will ignite a desire to continue, to get up, to move on, and to complete the journey. As you turn the pages, may you be inspired to embrace your life''s journey with tenacity, laughter, patience, and joy.

In this second book of the Edge of Yesterday series, Charley Morton, girl inventor extraordinaire, is determined to hack time. When her model for a time machine accidentally ignites, Charley''s sent whirling back 500 years, coming face-to-face with her Renaissance idol, Leonardo da Vinci. It''s a perfect scenario for the Renaissance-girl wannabe. Until the news: Her mother is gravely ill. Charley must get home! Can she reverse-engineer time travel . . . and what future will she encounter if she succeeds?

Stevens recounts several different pranks played by missionaries in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He believes that missionaries play pranks as a release from the stress and heartache from preaching all day long, and as a result of their age (most are only 19). He suggests that pranks can also create bonds between fellow missionaries and between missionaries and the cultures they are part of.

You are a Gemini. You are the communicator and ideas person of the zodiac. Let the stars be your guide as you learn just how important astrology is to your self-care routine.

Prepared for unit ECT328 offered by the School of Education in Deakin University''s Open Campus Program.

Produced for unit ELE702 (Independent reading study: music education) offered by the Faculty of Education''s School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education in Deakin University''s postgraduate Open Campus Program.

Produced for unit ECA706 (Foundations of music education) offered by the Faculty of Education''s School of Social and Cultural Studies in Education in Deakin University''s postgraduate Open Campus Program.

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This study expands on previous National Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) work that has undertaken the articulation of the academic language construct for broad educational purposes. The primary goal was to describe the language of textbook selections in terms of vocabulary, grammar, and organization of discourse for test development. Specifically, the work reported here has focused on the academic English used in fifth-grade mathematics, science, and social studies textbooks and will contribute to the conceptual discussion of the nature of academic language, and will provide concrete guidelines for test development. The vocabulary analyses included measures of lexical diversity, word frequency, and frequency of multisyllabic and derived words, as well as variety of clause connectors and frequency of nominalizations. In addition, academic vocabulary was identified as specialized (within a discipline) and general (across disciplines). The grammatical analyses included the following features: sentence type, clause type, passive verb forms, prepositional phrases, noun phrases, and participial modifiers. The discourse analyses captured the organizational features of the selections on three levels: rhetorical mode (e.g., exposition and persuasion) and both dominant and supporting text features (e.g., description, classification, and paraphrase). The analyses of textbook language reported here have provided the bases for a profile of typical texts in each subject at the fifth grade that will be part of the foundation for developing academic language proficiency tests. We conclude by illustrating how these profiles can be used in the creation of test specifications. (Contains 13 appendices.).

TRB''s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) Research Results Digest 319: Buy America Issues Associated with the State DOT Procurement of Paratransit Vehicles Using FTA Funds examines the Buy America requirements applicable to state departments of transportation (DOTs) and their sub-recipients in purchases of paratransit vehicles and examines opportunities for change. The report is primarily focused on rural and small urban areas; however, Buy America regulations apply equally to all motor vehicles purchased with U.S. Federal Transit Administration grant funds, regardless of the program through which the grant was awarded.