Explorer Books (Pathfinder Science: Earth Science): Wicked Weather (Hampton-Brown Edge: Reading, Writing, & Language �2009) - Softcover

National Geographic Learning

9780792280033: Explorer Books (Pathfinder Science: Earth Science): Wicked Weather (Hampton-Brown Edge: Reading, Writing, & Language �2009)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0792280032 ISBN 13: 9780792280033

Publisher: National Geographic School Pub, 2006

Single copy of Wicked Weather. Travel into the twisting path of a tornado and find out what risks scientists take to learn about these dangerous, wicked storms.

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About the Author:

Professor, College of Education Temple University Dr. Michael Smith joined the ranks of college teachers after eleven years of teaching high school English. He has won awards for his teaching at both the high school and college levels. His research focuses on how experienced readers read and talk about texts, as well as what motivates adolescents' reading and writing both in and out of school. He has written eight books and monographs, including "Reading Don't Fix No Chevys": Literacy in the Lives of Young Men, for which he and his co-author received the 2003 David H. Russell Award for Distinguished Research in the Teaching of English. His writing has appeared in such journals as Communication Education, English Journal, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy, Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Literacy Research, and Research in the Teaching of English.

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