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Animalia Review

Animalia
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"Animalia" is an illustrated book that brings you into a magical fantasy land full of animals. It features brilliant pictures of cats, birds, mice, unicorns and all sorts of animals. Each creature acts out interesting activities with gorgeous backgrounds. I am now sixteen, but I remember when the book recently came out, some six or seven years ago and I was amazed by the many sights of this book. Every page has "tongue twisters" for the letters of the alphebet, such as "Crafty Crimson Cats Carefully Catchting Crusty Crayfish" and "Lazy Lions Lounging In The Local Library". The pages also have pictures of many things that start with the letters. The lions look at books titled "Lassie Come Home", "Let's Learn Latin", and "Life In Louxembourg". The cats where charms and sit next to a pond, surrounded by a grand horizan where in the background you see castles and churches. Myself and my brother and sister loved looking for all of the things that started with C. We were also very amazed by the mesmorizing images. These illustrations look very lifelike, in fact, they look very much like the wonderful scenes children see in dreams. Reading this book with your kids is like walking through a great fantasy adventure in an animal world. It also serves as an excellent method to teach the alphebet to children. You will always enjoy reading this book with your kids and your kids will also enjoy reading and looking at the book by themselves.

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Inside the Classroom: Teaching Kindergarten and First Grade (Bee Line Books) Review

Inside the Classroom: Teaching Kindergarten and First Grade (Bee Line Books)
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If you're planning on teaching or are teaching kindergarten or first grade, this is the book you must get. I'm a preservice teacher at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska and I just read this book for a class. It gives many ideas for different areas of the classroom and goals for the classroom. There's a lot of detail in this book to really go into with this review. You just have to trust me that it's a "must have" book!

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Inside the Classroom collects in one place many of Bobbi Fisher's articles from Teaching PreK-8 and other teacher magazines. From these articles, kindergarten and first-grade teachers will learn: how to set up a classroom environment conducive to learninghow to use reading and writing in the kindergarten and first-grade classroomhow to assist the emergent and initial kindergarten readeranswers to spelling questions for first gradershow to conduct a "visitors day."

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Let's Get Ready for Kindergarten (Let's Get Ready Series) Review

Let's Get Ready for Kindergarten (Let's Get Ready Series)
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What a pleasure to find a book that is fun for parents as well as the young child they use it with. In addition, this book cuts to the quick by offering only what is necessary for kindergarten readiness, and thereby prevents overworking the child--and the parent wanting to cover all the bases. No more searching around for the right workbooks or information you need to prepare your child--it's all here, in colorful, lively, and re-usable format! Great for homeschoolers as well as any home with children from toddler-age to pre-school--or the slow learner needing a new way to approach basics. My three-year-old and I are having great fun with this. Highly recommend.

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The Let's Get Ready series from Cedar Valley Publishing is taking the nation by storm, helping parents and kids prepare for Kindergarten! Teachers at home and schools love it! It's not a storybook or a workbook; it's a book that covers the curriculum:the alphabet in and out of sequence, numbers in and out of sequence, left and right, shapes, colors, high frequency words, positional words, opposites, rhyming, let's read a story and so much more.It's all in one engaging book illustrated with Mrs. Good, the teacher and six adorable Cedar Valley Kids that you simply read to children to learn.

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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding Review

Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension to Enhance Understanding
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At first glance, it is easy to be a bit cynical when you see a book entitled "Strategies That Work," especially when it deals with the subject of teaching students to read. I have to admit I was, until I started reading this book and putting into practice Harvey and Goudvis' common-sense strategies for empowering students to make meaning from what they have read.
So many of our children can decode, and are as fluent as we are, yet when it comes to comprehension, inferencing, and extending meaning, they are completely lost. Not any more; Strategies at Work to the rescue!
There isn't enough room to review all of my favorite strategies, but I will offer one; for me, Chapter 8, which deals with Visualizing and Inferring is worth the price of the book.
The authors walk you through how to get students to visualize, or as they so elequently put it "make movies in your mind," as a way of establishing connections with text in order to improve comprehension. In the section entitled "Inferential Thinking: Reading Between the Lines," teachers are given strategies to model and help students think more abstractly in order to extend meaning, which is a skill that many of the state standardized tests are requiring our students to do.
"Strategies that Work" is one of the few books I have read that actually deliver on what they promise. Recommended for teachers K-12.

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A, My Name Is Alice (Picture Puffin Books) Review

A, My Name Is Alice (Picture Puffin Books)
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I am a Pre-Kindergarten Readiness teacher in my school district for 5 year olds. This book was listed in my Fountas & Pinnell kindergarten phonics text to assist students in learning to read their names in print. I used this story to highlight my students names as we placed them on the word wall in my classroom. I found the text enjoyable and a great learning tool.

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The well-known jump rope ditty which is built on letters of the alphabet is illustrated with animals from all over the world.

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