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"This book--for junior and senior high school students--asks students meaningful questions about their reading preferences and difficulties and helps them discover what type of reader they are and how to improve overall comprehension. Guided by the author, who is an experienced teacher, students will gain important and useful techniques and exercises to learn how to read with ease, and to comprehend what they are reading. Most important, they discover...
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It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children.
7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers—those who aren't already using this valuable program—practical, thoughtful advice about the seven simple thinking...
7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers—those who aren't already using this valuable program—practical, thoughtful advice about the seven simple thinking...
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A decade ago, Wolf's Proust and the Squid revealed what we know about how the brain learns to read and how reading changes the way we think and feel. Now that we are completely immersed in the internet and digital devices, our ways of processing language have altered dramatically. In a series of letters, Wolf describes her hopes and concerns about what is happening to the brain as it adapts to digital mediums, illuminating complex ideas with anecdotes...
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"Clever word groupings list three alike things and one that it is different. For example, there are living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms--but a mushroom is not a room! Picture clues will help kids figure out which "of these things is not like the other" and will begin to grasp the more fine-tuned nuances of word parts, roots, and meanings"--
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"Children will learn basic Spanish and improve their English language skills as they dive into interactive storybooks and games that bring vocabulary to life. Language can be adjusted within the app settings. Associate familiar objects with Spanish words; Hear the proper pronunciation of words; Expand vocabulary; Learn to say all the colors, numbers, and more in Spanish."--
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"These interactive books filled with engaging characters and stories will help readers in the 740L-960L range improve reading comprehension skills, build confidence, and advance to more difficult texts. Lexile Measures make it easy to match your reader to text at their current reading level. This pack offers texts at an average 6th grade reading level equivalent. Listening while reading enables people to understand texts higher than their tested Lexile...
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"These interactive books filled with engaging characters and stories will help readers in the 600L-700L range improve reading comprehension skills, build confidence, and advance to more difficult texts. Lexile Measures make it easy to match your reader to text at their current reading level. This pack offers texts at an average 2nd through 3rd grade reading level equivalent. Listening while reading enables people to understand texts higher than their...
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"These interactive books filled with engaging characters and stories will help readers in the 320L-480L range improve reading comprehension skills, build confidence, and advance to more difficult texts. Lexile Measures make it easy to match your reader to text at their current reading level. This pack offers texts at an average 3rd grade reading level equivalent. Listening while reading enables people to understand texts higher than their tested Lexile...
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Summer Reading helps kids stay motivated, maintain reading skills, and learn all summer long! Kids will build confidence and avoid summer slide as they master literacy skills with interactive games, challenges, and storybooks.
Get ready for adventure...Monkey Word School Adventure! Join Monkey and his jungle friends as they explore a fun-filled world of letters, sight words, phonics and spelling. Monkey Word School Adventure is an entertaining and...
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"Stories and games will help children solidify their reading comprehension skills, explore storytelling, and learn about everything from U.S. Presidents to animals and nature. Explore works of fiction and non-fiction; expand vocabulary; increase reading comprehension; strengthen critical thinking skills."--
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"Children's minds will stay sharp as they interact with these challenges and games that dive into everything from language to math, history, geography and more. Improve vocabulary and word skills; advance reading and comprehension skills; explore fractions, pre-algebra, multiplication and other math functions; learn about US geography and history."--Publisher description.
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