Children Learning Reading

Unzip your backpack of verbs. Do they sing, sketch, listen, or read? Swing, pluck, whistle, or feed?

Have you ever written a story that you want the world to know? Do you have an opinion you can't wait to share with others? Do you have the best idea for a website? Now is your chance to get your words out to others. Discover many ways you can make your message known to audiences big or small.

Fancy Nancy is thrilled when Ms. Glass announces a class field trip: apple picking! Nancy is determined to find a perfect Gala apple for her dad - it's his favorite kind, and even the name sounds fancy! But what if that perfect apple is just out of reach? In the fancy footsteps of all of the Fancy Nancy books, Fancy Nancy: Apples Galore! will delight young listeners. With easy-to-understand narration, fancy fans will clamor for more!

Why is everything topsy-turvy today? It's Backward Day at Fancy Nancy's school! Everyone is dressed for the occasion. When Ms. Glass can't think of any more backward ideas for the class, Nancy comes up with the perfect way to celebrate the day.

Hätte ich damals zuerst an meiner Lesegeschwindigkeit gearbeitet und dann noch die super Methoden zur Hand gehabt, die ich in diesem Buch vorstelle, hätte ich mir manchen Stress, Ärger und sogar Tränen ersparen können. Damit es dir (oder Ihrem Kind) besser gelingt, schneller zu lesen und zu lernen, habe ich sehr gute Methoden zu den beiden wichtigen Themen in einem Buch zusammengefasst! Mit ungeeigneten Methoden wirst Du immer unter deinen Möglichkeiten bleiben. Mit den im Buch vorgestellten Techniken erlernst Du, deine Lesegeschwindigkeit mindestens zu verdoppeln.

Gain an insight into the issues that matter today, such as who owns the media, who decides what is news, and the super-rich. This is the ultimate tool to help you get to grips with sociology in time for exams, from gender and identity to welfare and consumerism. Sociology is the study of how societies are organized and what helps them function or go wrong. Why do people commit crimes? Who decides if someone has a mental illness? Heads Up Sociology explores these fascinating questions plus all the key sociology topics, including poverty, gender, class, and crime.

What are your favorite things? This fun series encourages young listeners to explore familiar things—and to identify some of their favorites!

With Guided Reading Levels at A-B, Read and Rhyme: Level 1 has been designed as the first level in a three-part approach to learning word families.

Parents, sisters, brothers, friends, and teachers are just some of the people in children's lives. Bring these words about people to young learners, and watch their vocabularies grow!

Fluffy. Soft. Scaly. Kids encounter many textures in everyday life. Bring texture words to young learners, and watch their vocabularies grow!

Playgrounds, supermarkets, and libraries are just a few of the places kids might visit in a day. Bring these location words to young learners, and watch their vocabularies grow!

Dive and dunk! Slide and slither! Verbs and motion go hand in hand. Bring verbs to young learners, and watch their vocabularies grow!

What is philosophy? It's the issues and theories that are most intriguing and relevant to curious teen minds - questions like: what is knowledge, identity, human nature, right and wrong, faith, freedom, and justice? are all addressed, offering big ideas, simply explained. Written and designed specifically for the teen market, Heads Up Philosophy explains challenging but clear text to clarify and explain theories and arguments.

Ready to build a scary story? First, you’ll need the right tools. Open this title in the Writer’s Toolbox series and discover plenty of tips and tools to get you started. Soon you’ll be sharing scares like a pro!

Nancy will have to do some fancy footwork to resolve her predicament in this latest Fancy Nancy story for beginning readers. Much to her dismay, Nancy has been chosen for the relay team in this year's Field Day at school. Despite her many natural talents, Nancy isn't much of a runner. She's afraid of letting her team down - especially after finding out that an unkind (that's another word for mean) girl in her class is on the team too. With a little help from her dad, Nancy tries her best, stands up for herself, and makes a new friend.

From everyone's favorite fancy girl comes an alphabetical guide to enhancing vocabulary. Why say beautiful when there are fancy words like gorgeous and glamorous? Instead of hello, try bonjour, which is French and so much fancier. An umbrella will keep you dry, but a parasol will make you feel like a Hollywood movie star!

After a gloomy, gray week stuck inside at school, Nancy comes up with a great idea to cheer up her friends. Ms. Glass's classroom will celebrate a new holiday - Fancy Day! Everyone gets into the swing of things, practicing their manners and preparing for the party. But on the day of the celebration, Ms. Glass runs in late...looking quite plain. Can Nancy and her classmates doll up Ms. Glass and keep the party as elegant as expected?

This volume was authored in simple, easy Spanish for intermediate language students. Fun and easy to listen to, it includes a selection from six famous best-sellers. All texts were translated, edited, and simplified to increase language comprehension and ease listening practice with simple wording, short sentences, and moderate, intermediate-level vocabulary.

In The Invisible Toolbox, Kim shares with parents the single most important thing they can do to foster their child's future-learning potential and nurture the parent-child bond that is the foundation for a child's motivation to learn. She is convinced that the simple act of reading aloud has a far-reaching impact that few of us fully understand and that the importance of that act has recently been further occluded by our nearly universal saturation in technology.

Berlitz Kids' The Five Crayons is the introduction to the Adventures with Nicholas series. Featuring easy French vocabulary and simple sentences, this story teaches colors, numbers from one to ten, rooms and furniture, animals, weather expressions, means of transportation, location words, and more. The 60-minute program offers a catchy, thematically related song for each chapter. It's a fun learning experience for students, parents, or teachers.