Instant Practice Packets: Alphabet (PreK - Grade 1)
Set the stage for reading and writing success with these ready-to-use alphabet practice packets. Each four-page packet - one for each letter of the alphabet - includes fun, meaningful activities that offer the repeated practice kids need to really learn their letters. Activities teach and reinforce letter recognition, letter-sound relationships, letter formation, and sight word vocabulary. Writing guides, pictures, drawing activities, and sign language diagrams provide extra support for kids of all learning styles, as well as RTI and ELL students.
Perfect for independent practice, small groups, learning centers, or homework. Age Range: 4 - 6 years
Stamina Pro is a program that teaches you to touch-type in a series of lessons of increased difficulty. There are five modes in the program: Lessons (the introductory part, skip it if you're familiar with the keyboard and just want to increase your confidence and typing speed), Phrases (typing whole phrases, main mode), Alphabetic ant-hill (considered more difficult than Phrases mode), ALL keys (checks how well you know the keyboard) and External file, where you can choose your own text file, say, a Dickens novel, and practice typing it.
The Big Book of Alphabet Activities (Grades PreK-K)
Learning the letters and their sounds is as easy as ABC with this big collection of alphabet activities! Easy-to-make mini-books—one for each letter, hands-on activities, and 156 colorful picture cards give kids lots of opportunities to practice letter recognition, letter-sound relationships, and letter formation skills. Lessons include easy games, crafts, snacks, literature connections, multi-sensory experiences, and more. Perfect for use with kids of all learning styles! 216 pages.
Read the following sentences: I write the letter. I wrote the letter yesterday. I will write another letter tomorrow. In sentence 1, the verb write refers to present time. In sentence 2, the verb wrote refers to past time. In sentence 3, the verb will write refers to future time...
The Scarlet Letter (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)
An allegorical tale of passion, adultery, guilt, and social repression, Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" introduces readers to Hester Prynne, America's first fictional heroine. Hawthorne's story is a masterpiece of American fiction, and this updated volume from the "Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations" series explores how the author powerfully conveys its theme of the puritanical influence on societal attitudes.
