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GED Practice Test - Tape Official GED Practice Test Form PA on cassette tape. Allows the student to practice taking the GED test with oral accommodations Send your name, mailing address, and subject area needed (Language Arts: Reading, Language Arts: Writing, Math, Social Studies, or Science) to:
GED Practice Test- Large Print Official GED Practice Test Form Pa in large print. Allows the student to practice taking the GED test with large print. Send your name, mailing address, and subject area needed (Language Arts: Reading, Language Arts: Writing, Math, Social Studies, or Science) to:
GED Practice Test - Spanish Official GED Practice Test Form Pa in Spanish. Send your name, mailing address, and subject area needed (Language Arts: Reading, Language Arts: Writing, Math, Social Studies, or Science) to:
TABE Test on tape

Audio Edition Complete Battery Test form 9,
Levels L-A and Locator

Send your name, mailing address, and specify if you only need certain levels (Level L, Level E, Level M, Level D, or Level A) to:
BEST Literacy Test Form B and C from the older versions and Form B, C, and D from the newer version Send your name, mailing address, and specify the version you need to:
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The New Teacher of Adults

Authors: Michael Brady and Allen Lampert
This is a handbook for teachers of adult learners. Discusses the characteristics of adult learners, working with at risk students, using group discussions, media, and technology and much more.

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The Spirit of Teaching Edited by E. Michael Brady and Desi Larson. This book is organized in four sections which discusses the spirit of teaching expressed in relationships, theory, practice, and story. Send your name and mailing address to:
The Courage to Teach Author: Parker Palmer
The chapters discuss the heart of a teacher, the culture of fear, the hidden wholeness, knowing, teaching, and learning in community.
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A Framework of Understanding Poverty

Author: Ruby K. Payne
She talks about the mindset of poverty, middle class, and wealth and how poverty impacts learning, work habits, and decision making.

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Multisensory Teaching of Basic Language Skills Author: Judith R. Birsh
How to make the most out of multisensory instruction. This book focuses mainly on reading: phonological awareness, fluency, comprehension, composition, letter knowledge, spelling, handwriting, mathematics, teaching English language learners. This book also focuses on understanding reading research and putting this research into practice. Also includes conducting reading remediation for middle and high school students.
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Multisensory Teaching of Basic and Language Skills Activity Book Author: Suzanne Carreker and Judith R. Birsh
This is a companion workbook to go with the above book. This workbook has over 100 activities that cover all areas of the textbook. Easy to use activity book so educators can put multisensory teaching to work.
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Teaching on the Inside Author: Pauline Geraci
A survival handbook for the new correctional educator. This book is not how to teach offenders, bur rather an overview of what it can be like to teach in a correctional setting.
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Make Your Way For Literacy

Teaching the Way Young Children Learn

Author: Gretchen Owocki
This book is started with a brief explanation of how literacy begins to develop - first in a child's home and neighborhood. Owocki points out the various individual traits, family activities, and basic literacy practices that can be so influential - and then focuses on preschool, kindergarten, and the primary grades.

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