Kate Roberts

"A student-centered approach to teaching whole class novels"--

Whole-Class Novels, Student-Centered Teaching, and Choice

A Novel Approach

Christopher Lehman

Provides strategies for close reading narratives, informational texts, and arguments using a three-step close-reading ritual.

Lessons for Analyzing Texts and Life

Falling in Love with Close Reading

We are pleased to announce that we are now the exclusive North American distributor of this fine list from Wale's largest independent publisher. They specialize in non-fiction about Wales, its culture and history (including autobiography), as well as the history of the Celts and the Tudor period. They also have some children's books about Welsh history and folklore. Turn-of-the-century novel about a farming family in rural Wales.

A Novel

Feet in Chains

Katie Gramich

Snowdonia, 1880, and Jane Gruffydd is a newcomer to the district, dressed to the nines and almost fainting in the heat of the 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. -- Welsh Books Council

Adam Scher

"Toys from the 1950s, '60s, and '70s capture the joy of play and the pure fun of being a kid. But beneath those iconic names are rich veins of nostalgia, memory, and history. These toys--and the stories of the kids, parents, child-rearing experts, inventors, manufacturers, and advertisers they affected--reflect the dynamism of American life"--

Toys of the 50s, 60s and 70s

A small group of letters, [1945]-1983, written by Kate Roberts and on her behalf, to Mrs Hilda Edmunds, Cardiff, who used to do cleaning work for Kate Roberts and her husband when they were living in the Rhondda.

Kate Roberts letters

The Living Sleep

Sheena C. Jones

This title is directed primarily towards trainee psychiatrists sitting MRCPsych or similar exams and qualified psychiatrists. It summarizes information on a wide range of topics such as important journal articles, clinical trials, government White Papers, guidelines and rating scales which are vital for both good exam performance and clinical practice, but which are not available elsewhere between one set of covers. Brings together information from disparate sources on the major areas of psychiatry - saves much trawling through journals and other sources. Covers the vital areas for each topic as relevant - summaries of journal articles, clinical trials, government directives, national guidelines. Presents the information in an easily accessible form through the use of bullet points, lists, tables and diagrams. Invaluable for the hard pressed exam candidate revising for the essay paper and clinical sections of Part II of the MRCPsych and similar exams. Also highly relevant for psychiatric CPD and for day to day practice.

Key Topics in Psychiatry

Audra Kirshbaum Robb

Lucy Calkins

Maggie Beattie Roberts

Kathleen Tolan

Alexandra Marron

Stacey Fell

Emily Strang-Campbell

Gerrit Jones-Rooy

Grade 6

Units of Study in Argument, Information, and Narrative Writing

An English translation of a novel by one of Wales's outstanding twentieth-century writers covering almost 40 years in the life of a north Wales slate-quarrying family. New edition; first published in 1996.

Set during the years of the First World War, 'One Bright Morning' focuses on the story of Ann Owen. We first meet her as a young woman during her last days at college, before embarking on a new career as a teacher.

One Bright Morning

"We have never seen teachers work harder than we do now. These tools inspire kids to work as hard as we are." -Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts What's DIY Literacy? It's making your own visual teaching tools instead of buying them. It's using your teaching smarts to get the most from those tools. And it's helping kids think strategically so they can be DIY learners. "Teaching tools create an impact on students' learning," write Kate Roberts and Maggie Beattie Roberts. "They help students hold onto our teaching and become changed by the work in the classroom." Of course, you and your students need the right tools for the job, so first Kate and Maggie share four simple, visual tools that you can make. Then they show how to maximize your instructional know-how with suggestions for using the tools to: make your reading and writing strategies stick motivate students to reach for their next learning goal differentiate instruction simply and quickly. Kate and Maggie are like a friendly, handy neighbor. They offer experience-honed advice for using the four tools for assessment, small-group instruction, conferring, setting learning goals, and, most important, helping students learn to apply strategies and make progress without prompting from you. In other words, to do it themselves. "It is our greatest hope," write Kate and Maggie, "that the tools we offer here will help your students to work hard, to hold onto what they know, and to see themselves in the curriculum you teach." Try DIY Literacy and help your readers and writers take learning into their own hands.

Teaching Tools for Differentiation, Rigor, and Independence

Diy Literacy

Wyn Griffith

"Tea in the Heather is Kate Roberts's classic tale of family and community in the hill-farms and slate quarries of Gwynedd. Beautifully realized, never idealized, it follows the life of Begw Gruffydd, the little girl who grows from the age of four to nine in the book. With her eye for detail and her ear for dialogue Roberts's portrayal of childhood and childish concerns is charming and convincing. This is a time of friendships and rivalries, small luxuries and swift punishments, exciting excursions and tearful disappointments. And there is the sometimes hostile world of adults to contend with. Translated from the Welsh by Wynn Griffith."

Tea in the Heather

Y byw sy'n cysgu

Goreuon storïau Kate Roberts

A fabulous showcase of individuals, events, and inventions that have made Minnesota.

The People, Places, and Things that Shape Our State

Minnesota 150

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.

The Awakening

Straeon y Lôn Wen

Betty Eynon Davies

Y Fam. Gan Betty Eynon Davies a Kate Roberts

Kate Roberts is widely celebrated in Welsh as the undisputed 'queen of our literature'. This, the first full-length version of her autobiography to appear in English, brings to a non Welsh-speaking audience the intimacy and idiomatic richness of the author's voice mediated by Gillian Clarke's evocative, delicate translation. In the tradition of the Welsh hunangofiant (autobiography), Kate Roberts introduces us to a community, rather than an individual. Taking her reader on a tour of Rhosgadfan, the tiny village in which she grew up at the turn of the last century, she offers us an eloquent depiction of herself as a sensitive young girl who had little notion that she was destined for greatness. This parallel Welsh-English text will be a delight for readers in Wales and beyond.

Kate Roberts

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