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Recent years have witnessed a growing fascination with the printed annotations accompanying eighteenth-century texts. Previous studies of annotation have revealed the margins as dynamic textual spaces both shaping and shaped by diverse aesthetic, historical, and political sensibilities. Yet previous...

The book Reading The Easy Way is composed of short articles intended to educate the public in an easy-to-read way. The articles cover a variety of topics such as nutrition and healthy eating, biology of human diseases, environmental concerns, raising our children, good leadership, effective college...

2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to...

This book demonstrates how the roles of “author,” “marketer,” and “reviewer” are being redefined, as online environments enable new means for young adults to participate in the books they love. Prior to the expansion of digital technologies around reading, teachers, parents and...

Venture into the twentieth century and explore 15 different social studies texts with topics ranging from the Industrial Revolution to the modern Middle East. Leveled Texts for Social Studies: The 20th Century is an award-winning resource designed to help all students comprehend important historical...

Bruce Tombs has written passionately about the emotions felt by those adults who live with the struggle of having weak reading skills. He writes form a powerful personal perspective with a message of hope. Tombs will give you insight into the minds of those who live the literacy struggle, then break...

Kanji Alchemy is a reallocation of Japanese characters with an emphasis on 490 singular characters that provide a meaningful context for learning 2136 General Use  (Kanji Alchemy I), 861 Jinmei (Kanji Alchemy II) and 3463 Non General Use kanji (Kanji Alchemy III). The 490 "signature" characters...

Dive into the science of life, expanding students' scientific horizons with 15 engaging topics ranging from genetics and cells to ecosystems and taxonomy. This resource provides suggestions for differentiating instruction to meet the needs to all readers and offers four visually identical texts for...

Create confident readers and build students' comprehension with standard-based, targeted activities that guide your sixth graders toward reading success. Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 6 provides 65 high-interest informational and literary texts with focused, standards-based activities that...

Create confident readers and build students' comprehension with standard-based, targeted activities that guide your fifth graders toward reading success. Read and Succeed: Comprehension Level 5 provides 65 high-interest informational and literary texts with focused, standards-based activities that...

Word study integrates decoding/phonics, spelling, and vocabulary instruction to help struggling readers identify unfamiliar words in order to improve reading comprehension. This book provides secondary teachers with practical strategies to embed word study instruction in content area classes and support...

Set your sights on America's expansion and explore 15 different social studies texts with topics ranging from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War. Leveled Texts for Social Studies: Expanding and Preserving the Union is an award-winning resource designed to help all students comprehend important...

In this volumume prominent scholars from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds are brought together to review the empirical studies on the ability to reflect upon and manipulate the phonemic segments of speech, and to present their insights on the relationship of phonological aware- ness to the reading process.

The Letter Itself Becomes the Tutor To firmly establish the sound of the letters of the alphabet in the mind of your child, we created and instituted a completely new and unusual approach. In the A Different Approach to Phonics the letter itself becomes the tutor and the tool for learning the sound...