What are the real "basics" of writing, how should they be taught, and what do they look like in children's worlds? In her new book, Anne Haas Dyson shows how highly scripted writing curricula and regimented class routines work against young children's natural social learning processes.
Childhood in Shakespeare’s Plays challenges the notion that Shakespeare, like other Elizabethans, regarded children as small adults. The author shows how the playwright’s myriad references to childhood give an additional dimension to his adult figures. Providing the first detailed analysis of the child characters in Richard III, King John, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale, this book proves that Shakespeare did not depict children as unnaturally precocious or sentimentally innocent.
This is a collection of 14 interesting stories written in lucid language and illustrated with beautiful images. A portion of this book is inspired from traditional sources such as Aesop's fables, the Panchtantra and Hitopdesh. On one hand the stories will entertain your children and on the other hand it will inculcate in them wordly wisdom. This pleasure trip will ignite their imagination and widen their horizons.
BookFLIX reinforces early reading skills and introduces children to a world of knowledge and exploration. 10 nonfiction texts about science are presented in a flipbook format. The Read Along option can be activated to hear the text read aloud with word-by-word highlighting. In addition, key content vocabulary words are highlighted in yellow. Placing the cursor on the highlighted word will display its definition, and the ear icon can be clicked to hear the definition read aloud. This engaging resource for children in grades pre-K through 3 will help early readers develop and practice essential reading skills.
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Fat Kids: Truth and Consequences is an informational vault of deeply personal tales and essential information, focusing on the lives, questions, and concerns of parents and children living in a childhood obesity crisis. Unlike most books about weight, however, Fat Kids is not a dieting or weight loss how-to; it instead explores the true human experiences and often untold science outside the current political positioning on children and weight.
