- Bib ID:
- 5665193
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- LaRue, Charles
- Online Version:
- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED436103
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- Description:
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1998
- 348 p.
- Summary:
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Each of these three separately-published textbook/workbook editions on the topic of recycling presents key vocabulary words relating to this topic for English as a Second Language students in six languages. These books are designed to increase students' understanding of what the most typical local recycling rules are, why complying with them is important to their integration into a new community, and why it may be crucial to their family's health. The chapters contain exercises, worksheets, vocabulary words, and photographs. The introductions discuss "What Do 'Reduce,''Reuse,' and 'Recycle' Mean?" There are 11 chapters in each edition: (1) "How Can You Reuse Household Goods, Clothes, and Toys?" (2) "What Can You Recycle at Home? How Do You Recycle It?" (3) "When and Where Do You Recycle?" (4) "What Is Hazardous Waste? What Do Warning Labels Mean?" (5) "How Can You Dispose of Household Hazardous Waste?" (6) "What Should You Do with Automobile Wastes?" (7) "How Do You Recycle Vehicle Batteries, Tires and Scrap Metal?" (8) "What Can You Do with Yard Waste? What Is Composting?" (9) "How Can You Be a Smart Shopper and Reduce Waste?" (10) "Have a 'Reduce, Reuse, Recycle' Question? Who Do You Call?" and (11) "What Items Are Made from Recycled Materials?" A workbook survey is designed to help future students by collecting answers from current students. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse on Literacy Education) (SM)
- Notes:
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- Availability: Minnesota Office of Environmental Assistance, 520 Lafayette Road North, Second Floor, St. Paul, MN 55155-4100. For full text: <http://www.seek.state.mn.us>.
- ERIC Note: Also in Farsi (Persian) and Bosnian (Serbocroatian).
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- May also be available online. Address as at 14/8/18: https://eric.ed.gov/
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
- Subject:
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Minnesota Literacy Council, St. Paul
- Available From:
- ERIC
- Copyright:
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1998
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