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Berlitz Kids' The Five Crayons is the introduction to the Adventures with Nicholas series. Featuring easy Spanish vocabulary and simple sentences, this story teaches colors, numbers from one to ten, rooms and furniture, animals, weather expressions, means of transportation, location words, and more. The 60-minute program offers a catchy, thematically related song for each chapter. It's a fun learning experience for students, parents, or teachers.

Malusi, affectionately nicknamed Songololo by his grandmother Gogo, goes to the city to go shopping with her. Set in South Africa, Daly's text captures the warmth and tenderness shared by grandmother and child.

John Brown, Rose's loyal sheepdog, becomes very jealous when his beloved mistress befriends a cat.

This story, based on an Aboriginal folktale, tells of the conflict in Dreamtime between the Injim Quinkins and the Timara Quinkins. The bad Injims steal children and take them to their caves but the Timaras save the children in the end.

A vain emperor who loves new clothes wears a royal robe created especially for him by two swindlers.

Alexander’s two brothers have money in their pockets. All he has are bus tokens. It isn’t fair. He had money last Sunday when his grandparents gave them each a dollar. Now it’s all gone. At first he was saving the money for a walkie-talkie. But saving money is hard. He bought gum with some of the money, and when it stopped tasting good, he had to buy more. Good-bye 15 cents. Then Eddie offered to rent him his snake for an hour, and he couldn’t pass up a chance like that....

One audiobook couldn't possibly be enough to cover the topic of nouns. The cats are back with their comical examples to drive home to listeners just what a noun is. Specific types of nouns - such as abstract nouns and proper nouns - are also introduced in this funny expansion on the topic.

When the messiest kid in Minnesota is saddled with her family's obsessively tidy brownie, the sparks are sure to fly. Warning: you may not want to listen in public, since this story will have you laughing out loud!

A story described by Katherine Paterson as "didactic camp", a very funny but also thought-provoking fantasy about the issue of gayness. This controversial tale has given enormous comfort to many young people struggling with their own sexual identity.

Winner of a Newbery Medal, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, and numerous other prestigious prizes, Cynthia Rylant is among the most acclaimed children’s book authors in the world. In this sweet tale, Annie and her pet bunny Snowball are enjoying the porch swing with Annie’s cousin Henry and his dog Mudge when they see something amazing. A mother robin has filled her nest with eggs! How long will it be before baby birds appear?

Benjie Perkins' parents make their living by buying old houses and fixing them up to sell, so Benjie is used to odd noises in the night. But this time, it's different. This time what he hears is the ghost of Elvira Thistledown, who is kept from moving on to glory by a truly strange curse. Can Benjie free her restless spirit?

Professional faerie and storyteller Tanya Robyn Batt lifts the veil between the faerie world and our own, introducing a variety of faerie folk through stories, poems, and snippets of lore from Britain and Ireland. Introductions to each story are filled with fascinating historical and literary details about faerie customs, among the shower of pixie dust, glittery stars, and fluttery dragon flies.

In a land far, far away comes this delightful 12-book series for children to learn and dream and grow with. Where fairies live and work and join together to overcome many things on their own as they grow with your child. Where caring, friendship, and many other learning tools help your child to understand the politeness or, as some say political correctness, of the world we live in today. Fairies Town is a place for dreams and a place for education for one growing up. A lesson for your child in each story. With many good fairies to help and guide your child as they listen and learn to read.

Pat James is a self-described "honest-to-goodness old first grade teacher, never gets bored or lonely. She loves to laugh, and she gets excited and scared in all of life's changes. She would love to welcome you to her world of small, honest people who learn quickly and are very funny. Your own Monday mornings will be better by hearing her stories and recalling some of your own experiences in your classroom or in your home.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Simple Classroom Management Techniques for Elementary Teachers and learn about 30 Techniques for Effective Classroom Management.

With Spell, Pronounce & Speak, Part Three, we aim to be the building blocks of early successful learning and prepare kids for elementary grade curriculum while helping children develop spoken language through listening and enhanced spelling and comprehension practices. At the end of each spelling activity, kids will practice formulating fun, sentences using one, two, and three-syllable words in Part Three, the final lesson! Each lesson aims to gradually progress learning, comprehension, and competency in a fun and natural way.

Comprehension Connections is a guide to developing children’s ability to fully understand texts by making the comprehension process achievable, accessible, and incremental. McGregor’s approach sequences stages of learning for each strategy that take students from a fun object lesson to a nuanced and lasting understanding. Her lessons build bridges between the concrete and the abstract by incorporating writing, discussion, song, art, and movement into a web of creative connections that reinforce each strategy on a variety of levels.

Inside this book you will find 32 weeks of spelling practice, designed for your grade-one child. Each week covers 10 new words, and when appropriate the definition is given as the sentence example to aid with vocabulary. At the end of the week, your child will be tested on each of the 10 words so you can gauge their mastery.

15 Days describes the passion, purpose, and program of one urban teacher's impact on his elementary students, their families, his student teachers, and the world! Follow veteran teacher Mark Horowitz and his incredible students as they prove that lives can be touched and transformed in merely 15 days. 15 Days gives new meaning to the field of education's three R's: relationships, rigor, and relevance.

After some research, my heart was set on becoming a substitute teacher. That was nine long years ago. Looking back now I think that was one of the best decisions I have ever made. the last three years, I came across many people, most of whom always asked the same question. Every one of them wanted to know how to be a teacher like me. Through our local church, I started to hold a few seminars teaching people all about substitute teaching jobs.