Reading category: 4864 books
Deconstructing Penguins
Parents, Kids, and the Bond of Reading
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
“Books are like puzzles,” write Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone. “The author’s ideas are hidden, and it is up to all of us to figure them out.” In this indispensable reading companion, the Goldstones–noted parent-child book club experts–encourage grownups and young readers alike to adopt...
A Love of Reading
Reviews of Contemporary Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2011
Every year, Robert Adams prepares a series of five reviews of contemporary novels, to be delivered alone on a theatre stage to sold-out audiences in Toronto and Montreal. In A Love of Reading Adams has now gathered 18 of his most brilliant reviews, from Jack Maggs by Peter Carey and The Poisonwood...
Reading Style
A Life in Sentences
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
A professor, critic, and insatiable reader, Jenny Davidson investigates the passions that drive us to fall in love with certain sentences over others and the larger implications of our relationship with writing style. At once playful and serious, immersive and analytic, her book shows how style elicits...
by Beverly Blount
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The Blount Guide A logical phonetic manual for: 1. - Parents and teachers of reading to small children. 2. - Foreigners who wish to pronounce English correctly with instructions in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese and German. 3. - Spelling teachers. 4. -.Home schoolers 5. - Teachers of children...
Preparing Children for Reading Success
Hands-On Activities for Librarians, Educators, and Caregivers
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2014
Preparing Children for Reading Success: Hands-On Activities for Librarians, Educators, and Caregivers will not only familiarize anyone who reads to young children with the essentials of promoting early and emerging literacy, but also contains more than 25 ready-to-go activities that can be immediately...
In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works
In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works, #1
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Each of us, in our individual lives, has a moment or two of epiphany. That is to say, a moment of surpassing importance and significance. Mine took place in summertime at the Downers Grove Library.My mother had begun taking me to the library very early in my life.I was voracious about stories,...
In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works – On Water
In My Own Voice. Reading from My Collected Works, #3
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2016
I was moved to write this book after I saw a picture of one of the greatest rivers on Earth, the Colorado, It is a picture of water removed, thus life removed. It is the Colorado River, no longer God’s splendid creation, but merely a rocky water pipe, nothing but a riverbed. There are a hundred such...
The Reading Specialist, Third Edition
Leadership and Coaching for the Classroom, School, and Community
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
A trusted practitioner guide and course text, this book provides a complete introduction to the multiple roles of the reading specialist in grades PreK-12. Rita M. Bean offers evidence-based best practices for working with struggling readers; supporting teachers through professional development and...
A Year of Reading
A Month-by-Month Guide to Classics and Crowd-Pleasers for You or Your Book Group
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Desire a book to cozy up with by a wintery window? How about an addictive page-turner for sunbathing on the beach?
Thousands of new books are published each year, and if you're a book lover or just book curious choosing what to read next can seem like an impossible task. A Year of Reading...
Where I'm Reading From
The Changing World of Books
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades...
I Can Do It Myself
Phonics
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Introducing I Can Do It Myself Phonics Reading Program With all the Phonics and Reading Programs available why do we at I Can Do It Myself have the audacity to put out yet another one? The answer to that lies with the I Can Do It program itself. It brings to you a completely different outlook and...
by Rasinski, Timothy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Build second graders’ confidence in reading with these engaging lessons! Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases<\i> offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate mastery....
by Rasinski, Timothy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Practice makes perfect! Build students' oral reading skills with these engaging lessons. Increasing Fluency with High Frequency Word Phrases<\i> offers 20 creative lessons that analyze high frequency practice to gain word recognition, expression, and fluency with comprehension questions to evaluate...
Sight Words Preschool
Improving Writing & Reading Skills - Sight Word Books for pre-k Along With Cleaning Pen & Flash Cards
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2018
The most basic thing for the kids while growing is to get familiar with different learning aspects including writing, reading & more, and this is exactly where flash cards sight words book comes to help with sheer comfort and ease. Sight Words letter flash cards for kindergarten feature all in...