During Reading: Have children read the book softly to themselves as you listen in. Although children are reading independently, you are there to provide support and scaffolding. Help children use word-solving strategies when they get stuck and comment on how the strategy worked for them. You can provide prompts and encouragement without interrupting the flow of children’s reading!
Finally, early learning concept books with pages that little ones can turn all by themselves! Created with the help of child development experts, this unique format is designed to keep the pages from sticking together and eluding little fingers. Every iBaby book provides babies with an opportunity to play and learn-at their own natural pace. Toddlers discover a beautiful garden of colors as …
Exuberantly coloured artwork and favourite animals make this rhythmic story the perfect introduction to looking and learning about colours.'
Here Are My Hands invites very young children to respond spontaneously and creatively as they learn the parts of the body. The rhyming text and bold illustrations do more than name the eyes, ears, nose, and toes. By featuring children of many different backgrounds, the book quietly celebrates the commonality of people around the world.
Pearl’s older sister, Lexie, is in eighth grade and has a boyfriend. Pearl’s only boyfriend is the family’s crabby cat, Bitey. Lexie is popular. Pearl is not, mostly because of the embarrassing Three Bad Things that happened in school and which no one has forgotten. Everything Pearl does seems to drive Lexie crazy. On top of that, their grandfather is moving into their family’s apartmen…
Welcome to the country fair! Yo can stop by and find lots of things to count. Look to find how many been in one hive; how many seeds in one pumpkin; how many horses on one merry-go-round. What else can you count?
In Arthur’s Nose, Arthur is a first grader who decides that he doesn’t like his nose, so he goes to the rhinologist to change it and get a new one. He tries on several, but ultimately decides, to the relief of his friends and family, saying, “I’m just not me without my nose!” The Arthur books are not too bad. They tend to be a little on the zany side, but there is nothing necessarily …
America's favorite baby-sitters come to life in a new graphic novel series! Poor Stacey. She's moved to a new town. She's still coming to terms with her diabetes. She's facing baby-sitting problems left and right. And her parents are no help. Luckily, Stacey has three new, true friends -- Kristy, Claudia, and Mary Anne. Together they're the BSC -- and they will deal with whatever's thrown…
Who would have guessed that when the BSC girls get in a HUGE fight, it's shy and quiet Mary Anne who manages to save their friendship? When a terrible fight breaks out among the four BABY-SITTERS CLUB friends, Mary Anne is left to her own devices. She has to sit by herself at lunch, make new friends, and deal with her overprotective father without advice from the BSC gang. But the worst part…
Snow is falling. all the animals are fast asleep in their animal homes. They awake. They open their eyes. They sniff. They Run. What will they find? This book is as fresh as the first day of spring