http://www.ebooks.com/EducationFeatured Education titles at eBooks.comhelp@ebooks.com©2009 Ebooks Corporation Ltd11/4/2009 10:50:06 PMhttp://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=35019020090411.35019011/4/2009 10:50:07 PMDo you love teaching but feel exhausted from the energy you expend cajoling, disciplining, and directing students on a daily basis? If so, you'll want to meet ?The Sisters?, Gail Boushey and Joan Moser. Based on literacy learning and motivation research, they created a structure called The Daily Five which has been practiced and refined in their own classrooms for ten years, and shared with thousands of teachers throughout the United States. The Daily Five is a series of literacy tasks (reading http://www.ebooks.com/ebooks/book_display.asp?IID=28962720090411.28962711/4/2009 10:50:07 PMIn 1993 Greg Mortenson was the exhausted survivor of a failed attempt to ascend K2, an American climbing bum wandering emaciated and lost through Pakistan’s Karakoram Himalaya. 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