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Time and again, the work performed at The Institutes for the Achievement of Human Potential has demonstrated that children from birth to age six are capable of learning better and faster than older children. How To Teach Your Baby To Read shows just how easy it is to teach a young child to read, while How To Teach Your Baby Math presents the simple steps for teaching mathematics through the development of thinking and reasoning skills. Both books...

As six Californians get together to form a book club to discuss the novels of Jane Austen, their lives are turned upside down by troubled marriages, illicit affairs, changing relationships, and love.

Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of the Philosopher's Stone? Combining clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists, How to Raise a Reader, from the authors of the original and viral New York Times Books feature, shows you how to instil the joy and time-stopping pleasure of reading. Divided into four sections, from baby through...

In Reading IS Seeing, Jeffrey Wilhelm shares over 100 visualisation strategies that build reading skills and make reading, discussing, and reflecting on texts engaging and relevant. These techniques can be used with virtually any kind of text, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and picture books. Idea tableaux, mirror mapping, illustrated journals, picture maps, character symbol maps, and quote books are just a few of the many motivating strategies...

Henry the mouse likes everything about first grade except reading, but with some extra help at school and home, he is delightfully surprised.

In this riveting investigation, Stanislas Dehaene provides an accessible account of the brain circuitry of reading and explores what he calls the "reading paradox": Our cortex is the product of millions of years of evolution in a world without writing, so how did it adapt to recognize words?

Focuses on skills such as: multiple letter-sounds; familiar objects; upper & lower-case; fun songs & music.