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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement

Richard Scarry's Best Word Book Ever (Giant Little Golden Book)

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The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation: An Easy-to-Use Guide with Clear Rules, Real-World Examples, and Reproducible Quizzes

The Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation is filled with easy-to-understand rules,real-world examples, dozens of reproducible exercises, and pre- and post-tests.

This handy workbook is ideal for teachers, students in middle school through college, ESL students, homeschoolers, and professionals. Valuable for anyone who takes tests or writes reports, letters, Web pages, e-mails, or blogs, The Blue Book offers instant answers to everyday English usage questions.

DK Children's Illustrated Dictionary

Offering a visual approach to spelling, vocabulary, and grammar, a dictionary features headwords grouping related words and illustrations and a handy reference section to hold young readers' attention while providing them a wealth of information.

Learn to Read Kindergarten Edition

1st level of the Learn to Read series!

Packed with musical audio CDs, flash cards, a workbook, and a library of 24 magical books, Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read Kindergarten is a great way to get started with basic phonics skills. Kids learn about letters and sounds, learn how to put them together to form words, and then read great stories and books using the words just learned. Plus, a CD-ROM with 28 computer activities is designed to reinforce new skills with fun games designed to be played independently.

Research shows that the Hooked on Phonics Learn to Read program is:

• Recommended by 97% of users
  
  
• 9 out of 10 users say it improves their child's overall school performance
  
  
• 88% of users say it improved their child's reading level by one or more grades
  
  
• 88% of users say it taught their child to read
  
  

What s Included:

• 1 workbook with stories and activities
  
  
• 10 companion books
  
  
• 14 Hooked on Phonics® storybooks
  
  
• 3 audio CDs
  
  
• 1 CD-ROM
  
  
• 2 progress posters to track learning success
  
  
• 1 set of fun stickers kids love
  
  
• 1 Parent's guide
  
  
• 4 flash card sets
  
  

• "Not only did he learn to read, he enjoys reading."
  
  Colleen
  
  Mother of Christopher
  

  
  

• "The teachers at school are amazed."
  
  Briana
  
  Mother of Brenna, age 4
  

  
  

• "He does not struggle at all and likes to take his books to my husband to show Dad he can read."
  
  Sara
  
  Parent
  

  
  

• "I really enjoyed watching him learn to read."
  
  Colleen
  
  Mother of Christopher
  

  Windows System Requirements
  
  Windows 98/2000/Me compatible
  
  Pentium® Class 133 MHz or higher
  
  32-MB RAM
  
  20-MB free hard-drive space
  
  4X CD-ROM drive
  
  16-bit depth graphics
  
  640x480 display
  
  16-bit sound card
  
  Standard keyboard and mouse
  
  2-MB video card
  

  
  
  Macintosh System Requirements
  
  Mac OS version 7.6 through 10.3
  
  This program runs in Classic mode for all versions of Mac OS 10 through 10.4 except for Macs with Intel
  
  120-MHz PowerPC 603e or higher
  
  32-MB RAM
  
  20-MB free hard-drive space
  
  4X CD-ROM drive
  
  16-bit depth graphics
  
  640x480 display
  
  16-bit sound card
  
  Standard keyboard and mouse
  
  2-MB video card
  

  List Price: $64.99
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Scholastic Dictionary Of Idioms (Revised)

Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don't really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban makes understanding idioms "as easy as pie" with the revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS. Explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 everyday American idioms, complete with kid-friendly sample sentences. The entries are amusing as well as educational. Alphabetical listing and cross-referencing index makes finding idioms a "piece of cake."

Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!

Young and young-at-heart sticklers, unite! Lynne Truss and illustrator Bonnie Timmons provide hilarious proof that punctuation really does matter.

Illuminating the comical confusion the lowly comma can cause, this new edition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves uses lively, subversive illustrations to show how misplacing or leaving out a comma can change the meaning of a sentence completely.

This picture book is sure to elicit gales of laughter—and better punctuation—from all who read it.

Lord of the Flies, Educational Edition

Hairy, Scary, Ordinary: What Is an Adjective? (Words Are Categorical)

Simple, rhyming text and colorful cartoon cats help children expand their vocabularies and gain an appreciation for the rhythm of language in this lighthearted book of rhyming verse. Adjectives like frilly, silly, polka-dotted, fizzy, and spunky are printed in color, and all the words will tickle you pink!

Twenty-Odd Ducks: Why, every punctuation mark counts!

Commas and apostrophes arenÂ’t the only punctuation marks that can cause big trouble if theyÂ’re put in the wrong place. Now, Truss and Timmons put hyphens, parentheses, quotation marks, periods, and more in the spotlight, showing how which marks you choose and where you put them can cause hilarious mix-ups.