Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City

Urban Roosts: Where Birds Nest in the City
Author: Barbara Bash
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Total Pages: 32
Release: 1992-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780316083126

Find out about the birds that make their homes in the heart of the city and how they have adjusted to such a harsh urban environment.

Urban Magick

Urban Magick
Author: Diana Rajchel
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2020-03-08
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0738755990

Uncover the Magick Hidden Between the Sidewalk Cracks Engage with the urban landscape around you and harness its boundless possibilities for a thriving magickal practice. Urban Magick shows you how to connect with your city's diverse spiritual ecosystem and channel the powerful energy running through it. Diana Rajchel invites you on an in-depth exploration of what it means to work with urban energies, providing a variety of spells for city life, techniques for working with spirits and elements, and exercises for boosting your creativity and energy. You'll also learn the purpose behind both ancient and modern cities, how architecture and population affect your magick, and how nature figures into city life. This remarkable book is your guide to not only the energetic and sacred pathways within your city, but also to your full magickal potential.

More Mirrors in the Classroom

More Mirrors in the Classroom
Author: Jane Fleming
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2016-06-08
Genre: Education
ISBN: 147580217X

Nearly 30% of all public school children attend school in large or mid-size cities, totaling more than 16 million students in 22,000 schools. For schools serving culturally and linguistically diverse populations and large numbers of children living in poverty, a significant achievement gap persists. Proponents of multicultural education often advocate for instruction with culturally relevant texts to promote inclusion, compassion, and understanding of our increasingly diverse society. Less discussion has focused on the significant body of research that suggests that culturally relevant texts have important effects on language and literacy development. By “connecting the dots” of existing research, More Mirrors in the Classroom raises awareness about the critical role that urban children's literature can play in helping children learn to read and write. In addition, it provides practical step-by-step advice for increasing the cultural relevance of school curricula in order to accelerate literacy learning.

It's a Jungle Out There!

It's a Jungle Out There!
Author: Jennifer Ward
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Total Pages: 173
Release: 2011-06-14
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 0834827441

Just because you live in the city doesn’t mean you can't enjoy nature. This compact guide offers 52 nature-focused explorations, adventures, observations, and games that can help you and your child connect to nature while living in the city. While it may be hard to see nature through the traffic, buildings, and busyness of the city, there is still much of the natural world to explore when you turn your gaze to the cracks in the sidewalk, the trees on the street, or the green spaces that your city offers. Become an urban birder, make your own man vs. wild observations, and discover the not-so-hidden pockets of nature in your neighborhood. For children ages 4 to 8. Jennifer Ward is the author of I Love Dirt!, Let’s Go Outside!, and numerous children’s books, all of which present nature to kids. Learn more about her at jenniferwardbooks.com.

Hidden City

Hidden City
Author: Sarah` Grace Tuttle
Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2018-03-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467464570

A poetic book highlighting everyday nature The perfect blend of science and poetry, Hidden City demonstrates that nature can thrive anywhere, even in highly populated areas. In this graceful collection of poems, skyscrapers serve as perches for falcons, streetlights attract an insect buffet for hungry bats, and an overgrown urban lot offers shelter to both flora and fauna. Hidden City also includes engageing supplementary materials, which provide scientific information about the animals and plants featured in the book. Coupled with beautiful collage illustrations, the poems in Hidden City offer readers the perfect reminder to notice and care about their environment.

Reading Comprehension

Reading Comprehension
Author: Camille Blachowicz
Publisher: Guilford Publications
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2017-02-13
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1462532365

This practical resource and widely used text presents a wealth of research-based approaches to comprehension instruction. The authors offer specific classroom practices that help K-9 students compare and evaluate print and online sources, develop vocabulary, build study and test-taking skills, and become motivated readers.

Look and Learn Birds

Look and Learn Birds
Author: Sarah Parvis
Publisher: Downtown Bookworks
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2016-08-30
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1941367291

A simple, fun, fully-illustrated introduction to birds comes packaged with kid-friendly binoculars to encourage kids to explore the natural world around them. The clear, easy-to-follow reference is designed for a young audience with large pictures and minimal text highlighting the most interesting things to notice about the most common birds in North America--ones that kids would easily spot in their own backyard or local park. The book also highlights features and behaviors children can look for when they observe birds up-close (with the binoculars that come in the kit). In addition, the guide suggests fun, educational activities such as making a hummingbird feeder, or homemade bird treats to attract feathered friends. A portable checklist is included to help children identify common birds when they're out birding, and there is a colorful, interactive poster as well. An engaging resource for budding naturalists, this kit will also get kids exciting about experiencing nature up-close.

Urban Ecology

Urban Ecology
Author: Richard T. T. Forman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 477
Release: 2014-02-13
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1107007003

The first richly illustrated worldwide portrayal of urban ecology, tying together organisms, built structures, and the physical environment around cities.

Autism & Reading Comprehension

Autism & Reading Comprehension
Author: Joseph Porter
Publisher: Future Horizons
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2011
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1935274155

Provides ready-to-reproduce pages of lessons, worksheets, and exercises that help teach reading comprehension skills to children with autism spectrum disorders.