Rob Reid – författare

Featuring our four-legged, no-legged, winged, scaled, and feathered friends, this new series of story program lesson plans from bestselling author Reid will help librarians and teachers unleash kids' curiosity and learning. Using a combination of high-quality picture books, fingerplays, movement activities, songs, and games, these ready-to-use, mix-and-match lesson plans focus on universal themes such as family, friendship, and school but with animal protagonists. Useful for both school and public libraries, for teaching as well as collection development, Reid's bookIncludes two dozen complete 30-minute story programs for preschoolers that can also be adapted for K 2 childrenOffers 70 new ""in-between"" activities such as fingerplays and movement activities, songs and musical activities, chants, creative dramatics, imagination exercises, and moreProvides alternate book lists at the end of each story plan so readers can further customize their own storytimesGives tips on how to energize presentations and encourage audience participationUsing Reid's sure-fire story programs, kids and grownups alike will have a howling, barking, clucking, roaring good time.

From master storyteller and storytimes creator Reid comes this delightful assortment of activities ready for use by children’s librarians, elementary-level media specialists, and early childhood instructors. Reid’s bountiful compendium of his “greatest hits” includes original and adapted fingerplays, poems, activities involving movement and music, participation stories, felt stories, imagination exercises, spoonerism stories, and library raps. With ideas that are perfect for mixing and matching according to audience, setting, and program length, this bookoffers activities suitable for a variety of ages, from children as young as preschool age through middle school students;begins with “Hello Activities” and ends with “Goodbye Activities”;includes categories such as “The Animal World,” “My World,” “More Fun,” and “The Literary World”; andrecommends picture books published between 2012 and 2017 to share with children immediately before or after presenting the activity.Drawn from thousands of hours of programming, these time-tested activities will engage young ones as well as their parents and caregivers.

CockroachDB is the distributed SQL database that handles the demands of today's data-driven applications. The second edition of this popular hands-on guide shows software developers, architects, and DevOps/SRE teams how to use CockroachDB for applications that scale elastically and provide seamless delivery for end users while remaining indestructible.Data professionals will learn how to migrate existing applications to CockroachDB's performant, cloud-native data architecture. You'll also quickly discover the benefits of strong data correctness and consistency guarantees, plus optimizations for delivering ultra-low latencies to globally distributed end users.Uncover the power of distributed SQLLearn how to start, manage, and optimize projects in CockroachDBExplore best practices for data modeling, schema design, and distributed infrastructureDiscover strategies for migrating data into CockroachDBSee how to read, write, and run ACID transactions across distributed systemsMaximize resiliency in multiregion clustersSecure, monitor, and fine-tune your CockroachDB deployment for peak performance

Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each profiled title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage elementary and middle-school-age reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get the reader’s attention. That is followed by a short reading passage to “set the hook” and encourage the young person to read the rest of the book on their own. Further, the book contains several hundred additional recommended titles.The books selected for this collection were chosen following the criteria of reluctant reader books created by the Quick Picks committee sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. While these guidelines were designed for young adult books, they also work well for middle-grade books. The criteria include: clear writing (no convoluted long sentences with sophisticated vocabulary),high interest “hook” in the first few pages, well-defined characters, interesting plot, andfamiliar themes.

Reaching Reluctant Young Readers features 150 middle-grade books. Each profiled title has the potential to hook the reluctant reader and lure them to read the entire book. To specifically encourage elementary and middle-school-age reluctant children to read, there is first a pitch to get the reader’s attention. That is followed by a short reading passage to “set the hook” and encourage the young person to read the rest of the book on their own. Further, the book contains several hundred additional recommended titles.The books selected for this collection were chosen following the criteria of reluctant reader books created by the Quick Picks committee sponsored by the Young Adult Library Services Association. While these guidelines were designed for young adult books, they also work well for middle-grade books. The criteria include: clear writing (no convoluted long sentences with sophisticated vocabulary),high interest “hook” in the first few pages, well-defined characters, interesting plot, andfamiliar themes.

Get a practical introduction to CockroachDB. This book starts with installation and foundational concepts and takes you through to creating clusters that are ready for production environments. You will learn how to create, optimize, and operate CockroarchDB clusters in single and multi-region environments. You will encounter anti-patterns to avoid, as well as testing techniques for integration and load testing.The book explains why CockroachDB exists, goes over its major benefits, and quickly transitions into installing and configuring CockroachDB. Just as quickly, you’ll be creating databases, getting data into those databases, and querying that data from your applications. You’ll progress to data privacy laws such as GDPR and CCPA, and learn how CockroachDB’s global distribution features can help you comply with ever-shifting data sovereignty regulations. From there, you’ll move into deployment topologies, guidance on integration testing and load testing, best practices, and a readiness checklist for production deployments.What You Will LearnDeploy and interact with CockroachDBDesign and optimize databases and tablesChoose the correct data types for modeling your dataProtect data with database and table encryptionAchieve compliance with international data privacy regulationsScale your databases in a way that enhances their performanceMonitor changes to the data and health of your databasesWho This Book Is ForDevelopers and database administrators who want to provide a secure, reliable, and effortlessly distributed home for their data; those who wish to use a modern tool to tackle the kinds of scaling challenges that have previously required dedicated teams of people to solve; anyone who wants to leverage their database to solve non-trivial, real-world challenges while protecting their data and users