Tag Archives: Language Arts

Learn to Read Kindergarten Edition

Rating: (57 reviews)
Author: Hooked on Phonics
Publisher: Hooked On Phonics

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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 [...]

Writing Magic: Creating Stories that Fly

Rating: (34 reviews)
Author: Gail Carson Levine
Publisher: Collins

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In Writing Magic, Newbery Honor author Gail Carson Levine shares her secrets of great writing. She shows how you, too, can get terrific ideas for stories, invent great beginnings and endings, write sparkling dialogue, develop memorable characters—and much, much more. She advises you about what to do [...]

Super Silly Mad Libs Junior

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Roger Price
Publisher: Price Stern Sloan

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Nobody knows silly better than we do. And with Super Silly Mad Libs Junior, younger readers are introduced to the crazy world of Mad Libs.

Writers Inc.: A Student Handbook for Writing And Learning

Rating: (40 reviews)
Author: Sebranek, Patrick Sebranek, Dave Kemper, Verne Meyer
Publisher: Great Source Education Group

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It’s meant for high schoolers, but adults who haven’t inhaled chalk dust for years might appreciate it even more. The process of organizing, researching and writing a paper is laid is out in easy-to-understand normal-speak. The chapters on grammar and [...]

240 Vocabulary Words 3rd Grade Kids Need To Know

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Linda Ward Beech
Publisher: Teaching Resources

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Teachers can build word power with these 24 ready-to-reproduce, 3-page lessons. Each lesson is packed with fun, research-based activities that help students to explore roots, prefixes, and suffixes; use students’ prior knowledge for greater understanding.

How to Spell Like a Champ

Rating: (10 reviews)
Author: Barrie Trinkle, Carolyn Andrews, Paige Kimble
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

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Be all over “minuscule.” Score big with “curvaceous.” Hit “trireme” out of the park. From the authorities behind the Scripps National Spelling Bee comes a comprehensive illustrated book on the endangered art of spelling.
Written for ages 9 and up, How to Spell [...]

How Much Can a Bare Bear Bear?: What Are Homonyms and Homophones? (Words Are Categorical)

Rating: (3 reviews)
Author: Brian P. Cleary
Publisher: First Avenue Editions

Book Description
This accessible, lighthearted look at language introduces homonyms and homophones. Playful rhymes and comical cartoons make both concepts memorable. Each corresponding pair of homonyms and homophones is printed in color for easy identification. At the end, readers are challenged to apply what they’ve learned – [...]

Vocabulary Workshop: Level A

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Publisher: William H Sadlier

Vocabulary Workshop: Level G (Vocabulary Workshop)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Jerome Shostak
Publisher: William H Sadlier

A Writer’s Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Ralph Fletcher
Publisher: HarperTrophy

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Ages 8-12. Fans of Harriet the Spy who want to try keeping their own writer’s notebook will appreciate this inspiring handbook. Written in a direct, non-condescending style, writer-to-writer, it offers realistic, experienced advice on how to keep notes and use them to create stories and poems. Fletcher, author of [...]

I Like Bugs (Step-Into-Reading, Step 1)

Rating: (11 reviews)
Author: Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers

Book Description
Black Bugs. Green Bugs. Fat Bugs. Buggy Bugs., I like Bugs!, , A rhyming ode to insects, penned by none other then Margaret Wise Brown. This poem was originally published in The Friendly Book., , Mile 1 books entice brand-new readers with [...]

Opposites

Rating: (11 reviews)
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Publisher: Little Simon

Book Description
Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn
versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring
nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages,
and are sure to educate and entertain children [...]

Painless Grammar (Painless Series)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Rebecca Elliott Ph.D.
Publisher: Barron’s Educational Series

Book Description
This very approachable text combines instruction in parts of speech and sentence structure with down-to-earth examples, funny illustrations, and examination of some of the more amusing and peculiar words in the English language. A chapter on clear e-mail communication and etiquette is brand new in [...]

Cajun Night Before Christmas (Miniature Edition)

Rating: (16 reviews)
Author: Trosclair
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company

Book Description
More than twenty-five years after its first appearance, “Cajun Night Before Christmas” has become a modern classic that has sold more than 490,000 copies and has served as the model for Pelican’s ongoing, best-selling “Night Before Christmas series.”
The formula that started this success story is surprisingly simple: [...]

Checking Your Grammar: Scholastic Guides

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Marvin Terban
Publisher: Scholastic Reference

Book Description
This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writing before someone else reads it.Parts of speech * Irregular nouns and verbsThe 100 Most Commonly Confused and Misused WordsWhat Makes a Good SentenceCapitalization * Contractions * Compound Words * Idioms Abbreviations * Punctuation * Spelling * Acronyms

Curious George’s ABCs

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: H. A. Rey
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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“A is an alligator with its mouth wide open, B is a big blue bird, C is a crab with two clamping claws….” You get the idea. It’s never too early to get your babies chewing on books and ruminating on the alphabet, and children of all [...]

Kaleidoscopic Design Coloring Book (Coloring Books)

Rating: (17 reviews)
Author: Lester Kubistal
Publisher: Dover Publications

Book Description
Charming coloring book includes 30 black-and-white designs based on patterns made by a kaleidoscope — a Greek word meaning “beautiful form.” Optically enchanting, these images will appeal to colorists of all ages. Artists and craftworkers will also find them an exciting source of inspiration and design.

Word Wizard

Rating: (2 reviews)
Author: Cathryn Falwell
Publisher: Clarion Books

Book Description
At breakfast one morning, Anna discovers magic in her bowl of alphabet cereal. The letters in her spoon can be arranged to form several different words. She’s a word wizard! Wielding her magic spoon, Anna helps a lost little boy named Zack find his way home-turning a [...]

Eating the Alphabet

Rating: (19 reviews)
Author: Lois Ehlert
Publisher: Red Wagon Books
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Ages 1-3. This appetizing alphabet book shows fruits and vegetables so juicy and alive, you’ll wish they could jump off the page and into your mouth. Even vegetable haters will find it hard to resist the vibrantly colored collage illustrations, which make each item look fascinating and [...]

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

Rating: (37 reviews)
Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Book Description
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 [...]

First Words (Kingfisher Board Books)

Author: Mandy Stanley
Publisher: Kingfisher

Book Description
First Words introduces toddlers to commonly-used three-letter words. It is an ideal first book for children who are learning to read and who are beginning to associate words with familiar objects.

My Book About Me

Rating: (47 reviews)
Author: Dr. Seuss & Roy McKie
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
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One of the titles for the younger crowd in the Beginners Books series, My Book About Me has an unusual interactive twist–you make it up as you go along. On each page there’s something new to complete, from “I weigh ___ [...]

Show; Don’t Tell!: Secrets of Writing

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Author: Josephine Nobisso
Publisher: Gingerbread House

Book Description
Innovative yet accessible writing strategies appropriate for both fiction and nonfiction are presented in this enchanting tale of a writing lion who holds court for a cast of animal friends. Aspiring writers learn the essential nature of nouns and adjectives and how to use them to express [...]

Scholastic Dictionary of Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms

Rating: (5 reviews)
Author: Scholastic Inc.
Publisher: Scholastic Reference

Book Description
Containing 12,000 synonyms, 10,000 antonyms, and 2,000 homonyms, this versatile book is the perfect reference tool for student writers. Not only will it help students expand their vocabularies, this lightweight volume will help young people pick the perfect words to express their thought and feelings.

Scholastic Dictionary Of Spelling (Revised)

Rating: (8 reviews)
Author: Marvin Terban
Publisher: Scholastic Reference

Book Description
With a brand new design, 1,000 additional words, and new fun sections like “The Four Longest Words in the English Language” and “The Spelling Words That Made Kids Champions,” this is the perfect spelling resource for students. The introduction gives instructions for looking up a word the [...]

Best Word Book Ever! (Giant Little Golden Book)

Rating: (50 reviews) Author: Publisher: Golden Books Product Description Kenny and Kathy Bear and their Busytown friends introduce new and familiar names for objects grouped by subject, theme, and setting, in the city and on the farm, at the dentist and at the grocer’s, in the kitchen and at the circus and all the [...]

The Girl’s Like Spaghetti: Why, You Can’t Manage without Apostrophes!

Rating: (7 reviews)
Author: Lynne Truss
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile

Book Description
Just as the use of commas was hilariously demystified in Eats, Shoots & Leaves: Why, Commas Really Do Make a Difference!, now Lynne Truss and Bonnie Timmons put their talents together to do the same for apostrophes. Everyone needs to know where to put an apostrophe to [...]

DK Children’s Illustrated Dictionary

Rating: (15 reviews)
Author: John McIlwain
Publisher: DK CHILDREN