Kate Roberts – Författare

If you’re reading this, you probably have a unit plan nearby—stuffed in a binder, buried in a shared drive, or gleaming from a fresh box of published curriculum. There’s solid content in there. Maybe even great content. But if you’ve found your way to this book, something isn’t lining up: the work doesn’t fit your students, gaps remain, or last year’s units didn’t deliver.All too often, curriculum shortfalls are chalked up to implementation. But in Unboxing the Curriculum, author Kate Roberts, with Maggie Beattie Roberts, argues that it’s often the road map that needs some work. The path doesn’t lead where it should, and sometimes, there be dragons.This book offers a field guide for charting a better course through unit planning. In its pages, you’ll learn to:● see your curriculum clearly● set smart priorities● tailor units to your classes● monitor for equity, engagement, and relevance● build supplemental materials that truly support your students.With real classroom examples and team-friendly protocols that apply to any subject, grade level, or program alongside a robust appendix full of practical use-tomorrow tools, you’ll navigate prepackaged or scripted curricula and prewritten units without losing sight of the students in front of you. The result? A path learners can take to their destination.Like a map well marked, Unboxing the Curriculum plots a direct route through mandates and box sets right to the hearts of the students in front of you.

Reading fiction is at the heart of our classrooms.It’s what we love. It’s what we want our students to love—whether whole class novels, book club texts, or independent choices. But to love fiction, kids need to be able to and hopefully want to read without our constant guidance and instruction. How can we coach students towards more proficient, independent practice when they read?Kate Roberts offers strategies to teach the skills students need to confidently analyze character, theme, and craft—strategies they can repeatedly practice across time and texts. Since reading strategies alone don’t help teachers or students understand the “why” and “how,” each strategy is anchored by:Two-page Essays in which Kate describes her thinking about the strategy and explores the human connection to it. Why does this strategy matter? How does this strategy connect to ways we can think about our own lives?Lessons that offer step-by-step ideas for teaching the skills and strategies in ways that make sense to kids. Examples of student work and ideas for feedback bring the lessons to life, while templates, tools, and graphic organizers make teaching them that much easier.The Heart of Fiction is about more than skill building. It’s also about the conditions we can set up in our teaching to make this work stick, and for our students to truly grow into themselves as readers. It’s about the lifeblood of our classrooms.

Kate Roberts is acknowledged as a leading short story writer and novelist, but she began her literary career as a playwright. Her name is linked to about 15 plays, as translator, co-author and as playwright in her own right. This volume sees, for the first time, the publication of three complete, original plays by Kate Roberts.

A classic of 20th-century Welsh literature is given a contemporary treatment in this new translation of "Y Byw sy'n Cysgu." Set in a tight-knit Welsh-speaking community at a time when separation, adultery, and divorce carried huge social stigmas, this novel is full of insight into human character and changing social mores, reflecting the influences of Chekhov and Maupassant on the author's response to the erosion of youth's certainties.

Snowdonia, 1880, and Jane Gruffydd is a newcomer to the district, dressed to the nines and almost fainting in the heat of the interminable prayer meeting out on the mountainside... In the pages of this classic 1936 novel, we see the passionate and headstrong Jane grow up and grow old, struggling to bring up a family of six children on the pittance earned by her slate-quarrying husband, Ifan. Spanning the next forty years, the novel traces the contours not only of one vividly evoked Welsh family but of a nation coming to self-consciousness; it begins in the heyday of Methodist fervour and ends in the carnage and disillusionment of the First World War. Through it all, Jane survives, the centre of her world and the inspiration for her children who will grow up determined to change the conditions of these poor people’s lives, to release them forever from their chains.

Has a man ever played acoustic guitar at you? Have you ever wished to stop being perceived? Do you love walking aimlessly around art museums? If you or anyone you know would answer “yes” to these questions, the Punk History 2027 Day-to-Day Calendar may be for you. Combining relatable captions with gorgeous pieces of classical art, this calendar is clever, beautiful, and packs a punky-punch.Features include:No single-use plastic Page size: 5.354" x 4.488"Recyclable chipboard easel backer for desk or tabletop display Printed on FSC®-certified paper with soy-based inkFull-color tear-off pagesBack of pages are blank for notes or shopping listsDay/Date reference on each pageCombined weekend pagesOfficial major world holidays and observancesEach page features witty and sarcastic captions paired with vibrant classical art