Writing Road To Reading 6th Rev Ed

The Writing Road to Reading is a total language arts program that has been used by teachers and parents for over fifty years to teach millions of students to spell, write, and read. Now fully updated to reflect the latest research on how children learn language, this newest edition is easier to use than ever. The Spalding Method helps train the right and left sides of the brain as children see, hear, read, and write. It is cost-effective and efficient; students use pencils, paper, and their minds. The results are stunning: Children learn to connect speech sounds to print and begin to write and read almost magically. Spalding students perform well in the classroom and on tests—and, most important, they love to read and write.

The object of this little volume is to lead children of the second and third grades into the habit of speaking and writing the English language correctly. To accomplish this, the author has prepared a drill book which emphasizes the reproduction of many of the short stories current in our literature, and also introduces practice exercises to familiarize the pupils with correct forms. Beginning with simple, graduated exercises, they are continued fill a general principle is inductively reached. It is assumed that the child will learn to speak and write correctly, by imitation, if the proper forms are presented to him. Accordingly much attention is given in this book to expressions frequently misused, as for example, troublesome verb forms. The lessons are designed, as well, to awaken and sustain children’s interest in natural objects, and to put them in sympathetic relations with living things. The author has written from the standpoint of the child, and in language that the child can readily comprehend.

Nelson Handwriting contains six workbooks for infants and five full colour pupil books, one for each year group. The books are sequenced for progression and contain three levels of differentiation designed for a wide range of abilities. The books introduce, teach and develop the technical aspects of key handwriting skills in meaningful, relevant language contexts. They have been organized in such a way that you can teach handwriting to the whole class, groups and individuals. They contain increased provision for the early years, introducing exit flicks from the beginning, provides structured units which offer a teaching focus point followed by opportunities for practice and gives support and extension copymaster options. They contain improved assessment provision which helps to assess progress and encourages pupils to monitor their own development.

The Old and New Testaments. An abridged version of Ignatius Schuster's Bible History. Appropriate for reading to 3rd through 5th graders or letting 4th and above read on their own—actually, suitable for all ages. An old favorite of catechists. Teachers can provide their classes with wonderful supplemental reading, and parents can explainthe famous Bible stories to their youngsters. Includes 43 beautiful drawings of biblical events.

The Broadview Pocket Guide to Writing is a concise volume presenting essential material from the full Broadview Guide to Writing. Included are summaries of key grammatical points; a glossary of usage; advice on various forms of academic writing; coverage of punctuation and writing mechanics; helpful advice on how to research academic papers; and much more. Four commonly-used styles of citation and documentation are covered—MLA, APA, Chicago, and CSE. The revised fourth edition includes full coverage of the 2016 MLA Style changes.

Investigates the art of reading by examining each aspect of reading, problems encountered, and tells how to combat them.

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.