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Author
Series
Publisher
Square one
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
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...
Series
Publisher
Preschool Prep Company
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as 'sight words', 'instant words', 'high frequency words' or 'star words.' ... [This DVD featured sight words are] all, at, be, by, from , her, him, look, one, or, some, there, this, up & word.]
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Language
English
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Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Heinemann
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
For Kylene Beers, the question of what to do when kids can't read surfaced in 1979 when she met and began teaching a boy named George. When George's parents asked her to explain why he couldn't read and how she could help, Beers, a secondary certified English teacher with no background in reading, realized she had little to offer. That moment sent her on a twenty-three-year search for answers to the question: How do we help middle and high schoolers...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
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...
32) Fahrenheit 451
Author
Series
Ave fénix volume 182
Language
English
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Description
Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television 'family'. But...
34) Born to read
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
c2008.
Language
English
Description
A little boy named Sam discovers the many unexpected ways in which a love of reading can come in handy, and sometimes even save the day.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
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?
36) Nightjohn
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Series
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly-arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.
40) Dog loves books
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dog loves books so much that he decides to open a book store.
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