Writing For Children

Theodore and Violet trudge up the big sledding hill. Then they jump in their sleds and take off. Now which way are they going? You guessed it—down! Listen to discover more position words.

Adelaide loves writing. Bear loves writing. But Theo does NOT love writing. Thankfully, Adelaide and Bear are ready to team up and persuade the entire class, including Mrs. Fitz-Pea, that Bears make the best writing buddies. After all, who better to teach you how to fish and forage for new ideas than a bear? This third book in Carmen Oliver's Bears Make the Best...series is sure to encourage even the most reluctant writer to write a story.

Chomp! Crunch! Gulp! Bite into this exciting introduction to onomatopoeia. These fun-filled words copy the sound they are describing, like fizz, beep, or quack!

Do you want to learn more about learning difficulties and how to overcome them? Do you want to discover the strengths and talents of learners with learning difficulties? Do you want to find out the best ways to assess and support learners with learning difficulties in academic and social settings? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this book is for you. "Master the Essentials of Learning Difficulties," is a book that will inspire you, inform you, and empower you to make a difference in the lives of learners with learning difficulties. Learning difficulties are a common and ...

Like many people, you’ve probably used idioms or phrases like these without giving them a second thought. But if you were to take a moment to step back and learn about them, you’ll be pleasantly surprised to discover the mesmerizing and sometimes outright bizarre origins to these fun sayings! In Why Do We Say That?, we have curated 202 of the most regularly used idioms, proverbs, turns of phrases, and colloquial terms that have the most fascinating backstories. For each phrase, we explain how it was coined, how its use evolved, and how it gained its contemporary use.

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.

It’s time to read and rhyme! This series introduces young listeners to decodables through a fun and quirky rhyming story. Each book features up to 10 words from the same word family to reinforce the sound combination. The expertly crafted text uses this rhyming pattern to help early book explorers get the practice they need.

You've just discovered the perfect audiobook for kids, with more than 100 fun, four-lettered practice spelling words to help your child master their spelling in an exciting way that is just the right amount of challenging!

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

True love and friendship has no boundaries, even across time. Christopher and Susan are two teens who are best friends – one a talented guitarist with dreams of attending Julliard and the other a talented young writer who accidentally travel back to the year 1963. While they are there they fall deeply in love and have to make a decision; do they stay with those they love and care about or return home while they still have a chance? But if only one of them returns, how will that change the timeline? Will their entire lives be changed for the better or for the worse? Will their dreams still...

Lo scopo di questo libro è quello di parlare dei processi della fantasia e delle regole della creazione per renderne l’uso accessibile a tutti. Partendo dall’esame dei congegni che muovono l’immaginazione, l’autore non ci consegna, però, un ricettario per costruire storie, ma offre “materia prima”, idee, occasioni di riflessioni fantastiche utilissime per superare la muraglia della routine scolastica e per riconoscere il ruolo della creatività all’interno del processo educativo.

A feel-good read about family loyalties and second chances set on Canada’s picturesque Cape Breton Island, this book is perfect for those who enjoy sweet romances and countryside landscapes. Emma Copeland’s eldest daughter, Claire, is finally getting married. At thirty-two, Claire is about to wed her long-time boyfriend, Guilio Bondi, and she should be ecstatic, but she isn’t. Deciding that she had better get out of the relationship before she’s roped into an unhappy marriage, Claire escapes to her father’s summer home at Pleasant Bay, just down the road from her mother. While ...

You’ve got your topic and explored all kinds of sources. Now what do you do? Organize your information! The more organized your information is, the easier the writing process will be. Discover ways you can organize information as you’re doing your research. Learn how to take good notes, how to use quotes, and much more.

It takes just a short browse through the dictionary to spot how it is filled with negative words. But Susie has searched far and wide to unearth happy and uplifting words and phrases that, in some cases, have been long-forgotten and, in other cases, have only just been discovered. This is the perfect book to lift you out of your mubble fubbles (a slightly sad mood), make you grin like a gigglemug (someone who never stops smiling), and have you chortling (laughing) away in no time. This joyous collection of 100 positive words will show listeners young and old just how wonderful language can be.

Geisel Award winner and ALA Notable Book of the Year! In his next I Can Read adventure, Fox—the hilarious trickster character featured in the Geisel Award-winning Fox the Tiger—overcomes his fear of monsters when he meets real nocturnal animals.

The activities in this audiobook help children build their vocabulary, and better understand simple words - mostly featuring short vowel sounds. The exercises within this audiobook contain letter matching, learning alphabet sounds, practicing handwriting, pronouncing short sentences and paragraphs, identifying missing letters, short vowel digraphs, consonant digraphs, and word scrambles! These phonics audiobooks are extremely helpful to children who are learning English as a second language, and many of these activities are specifically ESL exercises.

Your Film Might Suck… But it doesn't have to. You are an awesome writer with an incredible movie script the world needs to see. But your story… well, it kind of sucks. So let's fix that. Setting your screenplay apart from the rest is a choice. Screenwriting is more than action and dialogue. To set yourself apart, you need to learn to tell a story in the screenplay structure, to paint a picture for the producer, director, or actor you're hoping will read your script and say YES! not give them another script that sucks. I guarantee you will find tricks and treats you've never heard or ...

Emma enters a writing contest. She loves writing and is confident that she will win. But when that doesn't happen, will Emma want to keep writing?

Embark on an exciting spelling adventure designed especially for young minds! "Beginner's Spelling: Fun and Easy Words for Kids" is a vibrant and engaging book created to help early learners master the basics of spelling in a fun and interactive way.

Love curling up with a good book? If so, a book club might be the right fit for you. Find out what it takes to join a book club or start your own, including information on membership, meetings, and activities. Together, you and your fellow members can participate, create, and most importantly, have fun.