Books with author Pat%20Miller

A renowned dog trainer gives you the positive training tools you need to share a lifetime of fun, companionship, and respect with your dog. Plus, you'll get: information on the importance of observing, understanding, and reacting appropriately to your dog's body language; instructions on how to phase out the use of a clicker and treats to introduce more advanced training concepts; a diary to track progress; suggestions for treats your dog will respond to; and a glossary of training terms.

A renowned dog trainer gives you the positive training tools you need to share a lifetime of fun, companionship, and respect with your dog. Plus, you'll get: information on the importance of observing, understanding, and reacting appropriately to your dog's body language; instructions on how to phase out the use of a clicker and treats to introduce more advanced training concepts; a diary to track progress; suggestions for treats your dog will respond to; and a glossary of training terms.

The Power of Positive Dog Training is the best book yet on explaining how and why purely positive training works. Inside, you'll find easy to read discussion of the philosophy of positive training followed by training tips and exercises. This book is geared toward the dog owner who wants to develop a relationship with their dog based on friendship and positive reinforcement, not fear and punishment. You get 30 chapters with instructive illustrations, including an easy-to-follow, step-by-step, six-week basic training program (with diary) for any dog.

A renowned dog trainer gives you the positive training tools you need to share a lifetime of fun, companionship, and respect with your dog. Plus, you'll get: information on the importance of observing, understanding, and reacting appropriately to your dog's body language; instructions on how to phase out the use of a clicker and treats to introduce more advanced training concepts; a diary to track progress; suggestions for treats your dog will respond to; and a glossary of training terms.

Written by and for the elementary library media specialist, Stretchy Library Lessons: Research Skills book offers ten 20-minute plans that can be stretched to an hour with the additional lessons provided. Titles are based on a specific skill and include suggested grade levels and time frames. Lessons include: Using Electronic and Print Resources, Forming Questions and Locating Answers, and Gathering and Organizing Information.

The Collaborative Bridges series offers the flexibility of mixing and matching lessons and activities to address a variety of elementary curriculum objectives and student learning styles. Each unit begins with a lesson in the library, extends with several bridge activities for use by either the librarian or teacher, and culminates with a lesson for the classroom. The arching series of lessons partners the media specialist and teacher for enhanced collaboration, or provides the librarian with a variety of curriculum-based lessons to use alone. The lessons are correlated to national standards, and all patterns, reproducibles, and answer keys are included. Six literature-based, cross-curricular units: Rocks and Soil; Natural Resources; Water Everywhere; Habitats and Biomes; Weather; and Night Sky.