How do students become thoughtful, independent readers who comprehend text at a deep level?
Beginning to Read reconciles the debate that has divided theorists for decades over the "right" way to help children learn to read.
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While away on his ship, Miles Smeeton wrote alligator poems on scraps of paper and sent them home to his children. Clio Smeeton shares the silly "postcards" and Eric Grantvedt puts illustrations to the poetry in this charming compilation.
Marvin thinks he sees a UFO while sleeping in his friend Nick's backyard, but both boys have forgotten all about it when the next week a new kid shows up at school. His name? Joe Normal. His behavior? Far from normal.
Have you ever dreamed of being an astronaut? Wondered what it might be like to see the sun set sixteen times in one day? Open this book and be transported on an information-packed voyage aboard the space shuttle.
In 1802, when Champollion was eleven years old, he vowed to be the first person to read Egypt's ancient hieroglyphs. He faced great challenges over the next twenty years as he searched for the elusive key to the mysterious writing.
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A portrait of a true American sports hero, Jackie Robinson, who was the first African American to play on a major league baseball team.
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Charles Lindbergh was only 25 years old when he made his historic non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Through Burleigh's vivid retelling and Wimmer's bold paintings, the reader soars with Lindbergh as he follows his dream.
Born in 1763 on a farm in central Japan, Issa began writing Haiku as a young child. Matthew Gollub has integrated the story of Issa's life and selections of his best-known work.
A pictorial biography about love, war, culture and ambition shown through the story of Cleopatra, the Queen of Egypt.