JOURNEYS is a totally new K-5 core reading program designed to meet the diverse needs of all students. It includes all the key issues you expect in terms of reading instruction - from comprehension to vocabulary instruction that provides key steps to help students acquire, practice and apply a variety of vocabulary to build readers and writers.
Ricky the Robot is the new course that really reflects young children’s tastes and interests. Children will learn English with Ricky without even noticing it, through fun and innovative characters, attractive illustrations, engaging stories and a wide variety of digital materials, while teachers will love the innovative but easy-to-use range of top classroom resources.
Look out for flying broomsticks in Storytime Issue 26 – our cover star is the naughty witch Baba Yaga! Plus, we’ve got an ogre-defying Japanese hero called Peach Boy, green children (really!), a girl who lives among gazelles, The Spider and the Fly, hidden treasures and a pancake-flipping Pippi Longstocking. Don’t miss out!
GAMES WORLD OF PUZZLES is a high-level consumer magazine offering a fun and lively mix of word and visual puzzles, brainteasers, and much more. The expanded Pencilwise section features crosswords and crossword variants, Paint by Numbers, logic puzzles, and many other diversions for your solving pleasure. The 16 full-color pages include interesting and timely articles and puzzles, as well as reviews of new board games and electronic games, a calendar of upcoming events, and news from the world of games and puzzles.
Lights flash, sirens sound, and a fire truck speeds down the street toward a burning building. This may sound thrilling, but fighting fires ultimately requires an extreme amount of dedication and courage. This book gives young readers a glimpse of the risks firefighters face, as well as the heroism that helps save lives.
