Select a Subject

The Joy of Telemark Skiing: A Soup To Nuts TO Improve Your Telemark Skiing The Joy of Telemark Skiing: A Soup To Nuts TO Improve Your Telemark Skiing

Yes, ALRAN Books offers Telemark Instructional videos! It's not all about work!

Announcing the much-anticipated sequel to the best selling Telemark Movies of all time; "The Joy of Telemark Skiing" In this new interactive DVD Dick Hall and friends whip up a tasty batch of new teaching tips including simple and easy to understand progressions and corrective exercises. If you want to refine or improve your telemark skiing, this is THE video to watch/own!
Publisher: NATO
Author: Dickie Hall, Wendy Bridgewater
Price: $30.00

More Info »

The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons The New Yorker Book of Teacher Cartoons

This is a great gift for any teacher that needs a good laugh. This wonderful collection of the best and funniest cartoons published over the last eight years in The New Yorker takes a wry look into the classroom.
Publisher: Bloomberg
Author: Robert Mankoff, Editor
Price: $21.95

More Info »

The Reading Zone: HOW TO HELP KIDS BECOME SKILLED, PASSIONATE, HABITUAL, CRITICAL READERS The Reading Zone: HOW TO HELP KIDS BECOME SKILLED, PASSIONATE, HABITUAL, CRITICAL READERS

Long an advocate of frequent, voluminous reading in schools, the author draws on evidence gathered in twenty years of classroom teaching to make the case for reading workshop more powerful than ever. The book establishes the top ten conditions for making engaged classroom reading possible for students at all levels and provides the practical support and structures necessary for achieving them.
Publisher: Scholastic
Author: Nancie Atwell
Price: $16.99

More Info »

What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-based Designs What Really Matters in Response to Intervention: Research-based Designs

The Response to Intervention initiative has risen to the top of today's instructional agenda and yet it is a process that is unfamiliar terrain for many teachers. To help teachers acquire a fuller understanding of the complexity of response to intervention designs, literacy researcher and best-selling author Dick Allington offers clear recommendations to guide classroom teachers in designing response to instruction (RtI) programs such that struggling readers will develop their reading proficiencies to match those of their achieving peers.
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon / Merill
Author: Richard L. Allington
Price: $36.99

More Info »

WONDROUS WORDS:  Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom WONDROUS WORDS: Writers and Writing in the Elementary Classroom

An extremely popular title with teachers. Very practical and easy to use. elementary teachers will be able to immediately be able to adapt these writing ideas to their own writing lessons.
Publisher: NCTE
Author: KATIE WOOD RAY
Price: $29.95

More Info »

  Journey Around Cape Cod & the Islands Cookbook Journey Around Cape Cod & the Islands Cookbook

From cranberries to the catch-of-the-day: a collection of delicious recipes and clever cooking tips. Much more than a cookbook, each page is brimming with coastal secrets only a native would know.
Publisher: Commonwealth Editions
Author: Martha Day Zschock
Price: $14.95

More Info »

 Literacy Tutoring That Works: A Look at Successful In-School, After-School, and Summer Programs Literacy Tutoring That Works: A Look at Successful In-School, After-School, and Summer Programs

The volume provides a framework for education faculty, preservice teachers, and graduate students who want to coordinate a university or public school initiative. It also speaks to community volunteers and families engaged in literacy tutoring projects. And it offers information to classroom teachers, school administrators, reading coaches, and language arts supervisors who want to engage in literacy tutoring projects.
Publisher: International Reading Association
Author: J. Richards, C. Lassonde, eds.
Price: $32.95

More Info »

"All the Stories That We Have": Adolescents' Insights About Literacy and Learning in Secondary Schools

Author Elizabeth Moje stresses the importance of building strong relationships with your adolescent students. She recommends integrating their out-of-school experiences into an engaging curriculum that helps them see a larger purpose for their learning.
Publisher: International Reading Association
Author: Elizabeth Birr Moje
Price: $21.95

More Info »