"This authoritative guide--with a core focus on reading readiness and helping position children to succeed in school--offers more than 300 age-appropriate and subject-specific book selections from librarians for reading time with children. From board and picture books to hot new books, these recommendations reflect family, community, play, and the environment. Mirroring a child's world as they grow and mature, chapters include segments on reading...

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Mary Mapes Dodge.

Provides in-depth analysis of the life, works, career, and critical importance of Rumer Godden.

The very sleepy Lion family tries to stay up very late at night, so they won't miss the most spectacular meteor shower of the year. Key word: star. Word family: -ar. Target vowel: r-controlled a. Target consonant: s. Genre: poetry. Themes: challenges.

Title includes: Elmo's Animal Adventures: Animals are on the loose on Sesame Street! Elmo invites you to join him and his animal friends as they embark on three fun-filled adventures. Elmo and the Bookaneers: Everyone loves to read - even pirates! The 'Bookaneers,' led by Tina Fey, have come ashore on Sesame Street, and they want to plunder Elmo's bookshelf. Elmo and Friends: The Letter Quest and Other Magical Tales: The Knights of Sesame Street are...

"Explores whether or not we are truly instilling lifelong reading habits in our students and provides practical strategies for teaching 'wild' reading. Based on survey responses from over 900 adult readers and classroom feedback, [the book] offers ... advice and strategies on how to develop, encourage, and assess key lifelong reading habits, including dedicating time for reading, planning for future reading, and defining oneself as a reader"--

"A must-have resource for teachers of daycare, preschool, and kindergarten! Written for early childhood educators, this essential resource from the authors of Raising a Rock-Star Reader offers a wide array of engaging, developmentally appropriate activities that build oral language and early reading and writing skills. Amy and Allie break down the whys and hows of early literacy into bite-size pieces to help busy teachers support their youngest learners'...

A guide to teaching phonics that explains how every parent can teach reading, includes a scripted format that guides parents and children through each lesson, from beginning vowel sounds through words on a fourth-grade level.