The Best Education Reference Books 2025

1. The Disheveled Dictionary (Paperback)

With her signature cache of illustrations and flamboyantly gothic examples, Karen Elizabeth Gordon, "who has achieved cult status with her whimsical references, defines an array of daffy, delicious words" (Library Journal). In The Disheveled Dictionary Gordon conjures a world of words, their definitions and myriad uses, and along the way invokes favorite characters from earlier books. Gordon's eccentric wit and unique insights take readers on a delightful romp through the dictionary that will expand their vocabularies and exhilarate their minds. Along the way she celebrates not only the obscure but also our most beloved and basic words. The Disheveled Dictionary is a treat for anyone who loves language -- its sound, its sensuality, its ability to surprise and delight.

The Disheveled Dictionary (Paperback)

2. Pre-Owned Home Learning Year by Year, Revised and Updated: How to Design a Creative and Comprehensive Homeschool Curriculum, 9780525576969, 0525576967, Paperback, Updated edition

9780525576969. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 576. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 576 p. A comprehensive guide to designing homeschool curriculum, from one of the country's foremost homeschooling experts--now revised and updated! Homeschooling can be a tremendous gift to your children--a personalized educational experience tailored to each kid's interests, abilities, and learning styles. But what to teach, and when, and how? Especially for first-time homeschoolers, the prospect of tackling an annual curriculum can be daunting. In Home Learning Year by Year, Rebecca Rupp presents comprehensive plans from preschool through high school, covering integral subjects for each grade, with lists of topics commonly presented at each level, recommended resource and reading lists, and suggestions for creative alternative options and approaches. Included, along with all the educational basics, are techniques and resources for teaching everything from philosophy to engineering, as well as suggestions for dealing with such sensitive topics as sex education. Now revised throughout with all-new updates featuring the most effective and up-to-date methods and reading guides to homeschool your child at all ages, Home Learning Year by Year continues to be the definitive book for the homeschooling parent.

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3. Pre-Owned There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life (Hardcover 9780684824550) by Charles Harrington Elster

9780684824550. Pre-Owned: Good condition. Hard cover. Language: English. Pages: 272. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 272 p. A word lover's delight of unusual and unusually useful words and their definitions, There's a Word for It! offers a delectable lexical feast served up by the language connoisseur whom William Safire calls "ek-STROR-di-ner-ee". The book also contains a dazzling selection of light verse by such famous (and fabulous) scribes as Hogden Gnash, Anais Numb, and G.B. Pshaw.

Pre-Owned There's a Word for It!: A Grandiloquent Guide to Life (Hardcover 9780684824550) by Charles Harrington Elster

4. Pre-Owned Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook: A Workshop Essential (Paperback) by Linda Rief

9780325011905. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 197. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 197 p. Contains: Illustrations. Many teachers wonder how to juggle aswriter's notebook and asreader's response log. Linda Rief singeniously combines them both in the Writer's-Readers's Notebook.sThis veteran teacher truly walks the walk; shesshows exactly how to make this powerful tool work in the classroom. - Ralph FletchersThe Readers-Writers Notebook is THE tool for all those concerned with adolescents and literacy. - Teri LesesneAuthor of Naked ReadingsThe Writer's-Reader's Notebook is the most essential learning and teaching tool in Linda Rief's classroom. More than an empty journal, it's a highly structured, specifically designed place where all students (English language learners, those with learning differences, girls and boys) connect reading, writing, and thinking. It's also where Linda can observe and encourage their learning. Now, in Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook, Linda shows you how this key resource in her English/language arts workshop has the power to help learners develop into articulate, literate citizens of the world. sIn Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook Linda guides you through the Writer's-Reader's Notebook: what's in it, why it's in there, and how to use it effectively with your students. She shows you how to use it to assess what students know, how they think, and how they can express themselves as writers and readers. Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook includes: descriptions of the reading and writing minilessons that Linda uses to get kids thinking in the notebook ideas for further invitations that engage adolescents in writing, reading, and drawing specific ways to use the lists and tools that are printed right in the Notebook dozens of reproducible examples of notebook pagesby Linda's students that show the Notebook's multiple uses and that will help inspire your own students' writing and reading an annotated list of professional titles that will help further your knowledge of Notebooks and how to use them effectively in a variety of ways in your classroom. sWith a copy of the Writer's-Reader's Notebook and vital insights into its effectiveness, sInside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook includes everything you need to implement the Writer's-Reader's Notebook in any class and to help students begin the journey toward more thoughtful, purposeful literacy experiences. Read it and see why the Notebook should be at the center of your teaching.s

9780325011905. New condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 197. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 197 p. Contains: Illustrations. Many teachers wonder how to juggle aswriter's notebook and asreader's response log. Linda Rief singeniously combines them both in the Writer's-Readers's Notebook.sThis veteran teacher truly walks the walk; shesshows exactly how to make this powerful tool work in the classroom. - Ralph FletchersThe Readers-Writers Notebook is THE tool for all those concerned with adolescents and literacy. - Teri LesesneAuthor of Naked ReadingsThe Writer's-Reader's Notebook is the most essential learning and teaching tool in Linda Rief's classroom. More than an empty journal, it's a highly structured, specifically designed place where all students (English language learners, those with learning differences, girls and boys) connect reading, writing, and thinking. It's also where Linda can observe and encourage their learning. Now, in Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook, Linda shows you how this key resource in her English/language arts workshop has the power to help learners develop into articulate, literate citizens of the world. sIn Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook Linda guides you through the Writer's-Reader's Notebook: what's in it, why it's in there, and how to use it effectively with your students. She shows you how to use it to assess what students know, how they think, and how they can express themselves as writers and readers. Inside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook includes: descriptions of the reading and writing minilessons that Linda uses to get kids thinking in the notebook ideas for further invitations that engage adolescents in writing, reading, and drawing specific ways to use the lists and tools that are printed right in the Notebook dozens of reproducible examples of notebook pagesby Linda's students that show the Notebook's multiple uses and that will help inspire your own students' writing and reading an annotated list of professional titles that will help further your knowledge of Notebooks and how to use them effectively in a variety of ways in your classroom. sWith a copy of the Writer's-Reader's Notebook and vital insights into its effectiveness, sInside the Writer's-Reader's Notebook includes everything you need to implement the Writer's-Reader's Notebook in any class and to help students begin the journey toward more thoughtful, purposeful literacy experiences. Read it and see why the Notebook should be at the center of your teaching.s