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Beloved poet David L. Harrison has teamed up with fluency expert Timothy Rasinki and Gay Fawcett to create this fun and motivating resource for helping students develop fluency and comprehension. Forty poems written for two voices engage middle-grade students in reading and rereading with a purpose. The companion activities focus on key comprehension skills, including visualizing, summarizing, synthesizing, predicting, and inferring. Complete with lesson ideas and routines for using the poems, this collection will be a welcome addition to any teacher's bookshelf. For use with Grades 4-6.

Pocket chart features 10 see-through plastic pockets.

Research shows that rehearsing and reading plays offers students the repeated reading practice they need to become confident and fluent readers. These short and engaging plays, keyed to holiday and seasonal events around the year, will motivate students to read and practice their lines and to experiment with key aspects of fluent reading, such as phrasing, pacing, and expression. Includes tips for building fluency, a student self-assessment checklist, and background information and extension activities for each play. For use with Grades 23.

A vividly illustrated bedtime story that shows how the unconditional love of a mother can be tested through the relentless questions of her little boy. FORMAT: Paperback book and CD/ «But Mama, but Mama, what if I were a super smelly skunk, and I smelled so bad that my name was Stinky Face?» A mother's unconditional love is truly tested in this warm and reassuring tale. The imaginative son turns himself into a meat-eating dinosaur, a swamp creature, and much more before being satisfied that no matter how stinky he is or how slimy of a creature he could possibly be, he is loved and nothing will change that.

Students memorize key grammar and usage rules with this collection of 20 engaging songs set to familiar tunes such as London Bridge and Old MacDonald. Includes hands-on activities and content-area connections that help students apply and extend what they've learned for each song. Topics covered: parts of speech, kinds of sentences, subject and predicate agreement, and more. For use with Grades 3-6.

This fun filled Christmas countdown board book helps provide simple activities to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The weeks that lead up to Christmas are an exciting magical time for young children. But the wait for December 25th can seem almost endless. MY FIRST READ AND LEARN COUNTDOWN TO CHRISTMAS channels a young child's anticipation into simple activities to celebrate the birth of Jesus.

For the first time ever, the world of the original, classic Star Wars movies — Episode IV, V, and VI — comes to a Scholastic series for young readers. It is a critical moment in the struggle between the Rebels and the Empire: the Force itself hangs in the balance, and all the hopes of the galaxy depend on the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a host of other heroes.

For the first time ever, the world of the original, classic Star Wars movies, Episode IV, V, and VI, comes to a Scholastic series for young readers. It is a critical moment in the struggle between the Rebels and the Empire: the Force itself hangs in the balance, and all the hopes of the galaxy depend on the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a host of other heroes.

For the first time ever, the world of the original, classic Star Wars movies — Episode IV, V, and VI — comes to a Scholastic series for young readers. It is a critical moment in the struggle between the Rebels and the Empire: the Force itself hangs in the balance, and all the hopes of the galaxy depend on the adventures of Luke Skywalker, Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and a host of other heroes.

The ten best Arthurian Legends are re-told ... with a modern twist. Readers can follow Arthur's sensational rise to fame in the Celtic Clarion and find out who proves to be the best in the quest for the Holy Grail. With fact files on knights and jousting, plus a who's who of Arthurian Legends this title is 100% Horrible!

Terry Deary re-tells the bard's ten best stories ... with a modern twist. From midsummer mix-ups and magic, to ten dead in Denmark, fans will love Shakespeare's stories presented as never before. Romeo and Juliet take centre stage in a photo love story and weird witchcraft features in the Ballad of Big Mac. With fact files on Shakespeare's foul wordplay, quick quizzes and hilarious cartoons throughout, this title is 100% Horrible!

The ten best Viking Legends are revamped and retold with a hilarious modern twist. Readers can find out about Thor's missing hammer, Fenrir the out-of-control giant wolf, how the Vikings thought the world would end, and much more! Plus there are cool cartoons and fantastic fact sections, including a gallery of the gods, and ten Norse monsters to avoid. It's the best book on Viking Legends... ever!

You've probably heard of Winston Churchill... He's the one who raised his fingers in a V sign and smoked a massive cigar. Inside: Get to know the man behind the cigar in Winston's secret diary! Re-live events of the century in The Winston Weekly! Read how Winston led Britain to victory in the Second World War!

Being a monster isn't as easy as it looks! Gormy's parents are going away for the evening and that can only mean one thing — a monster-sitter! Oh no! But when Nana the Noog arrives, she's like no monster-sitter Gormy's had before. And when the sun goes down, he'll find out just how different she is! He's going to have to use every monster skill he has to survive until morning.

From the first mad matches with a pig's bladder to the faithful fans and cracking competitions of the 21st Century, this glorious guide knows the score. You can find out which foolish team played in their Y-fronts, which fearsome goalie dangled the opposing team by the ankles and much more! Heaving with facts and cartoons, if you want to be in the game, get Foul Football!

The Frightful First World War tells readers all the horrors and hardships of the war that was meant to last four months ... but ground on for four grim years. The Woeful Second World War reveals the dire details about the worst war ever — from snow-bound cities under siege to fly-infested jungle trenches. Packed with curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests. History has never been so horrible, now in a brilliant new edition!

In Gorgeous Georgians readers will meet lords and ladies with personal hygiene problems, as well as the starving and pitiful poor. The Vile Victorians dishes up all the terrible truth about revolting events affecting everyone not so very long ago — from the vile Victorian queen herself, to some vicious Victorian villains. With curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests, history has never been so horrible. Now in a gorgeous new edition!

The Groovy Greeks is full of fab facts about the hip 'n' happenin' Greeks. In Rotten Romans, readers follow life for folk in Roman times, from Nasty Nero to brave Brit Boudicca. Featuring curious quizzes, rotten recipes, gruesome games and terrible tests, thanks to this new edition history has never been so horrible!

Readers will delight in the dreadful details of Tudor life — from cruel kings and queens like horrible Henry VIII to poor peasants and common criminals — in the Terrible Tudors. The Slimy Stuarts is full of foul but fascinating facts about lousy life for the plague-ridden Stuarts, revolting Roundheads and crafty Cavaliers. With curious quizzes, gruesome games and terrible tests, history is now in a horrible new edition!

Pepito lives next door to Madeline and her friends. When he moves to London, he pines for the twelve little girls terribly. So Miss Clavel and her charges pay him a visit in London...and come home with a new friend! The small but feisty heroine, Madeline, and her charming Parisian world have been loved by children and adults alike for seventy years.

Everyone's heard of Henry VIII. He's the one who had a bit of a weight problem and married six unlucky ladies. Inside readers can find out everything they don't already know about Henry and everything that makes him Horribly Famous, including the wife he accused of witchcraft, his closest friends who got the chop, and how he bricked up his bedroom door in fear for his life.

CaseBook #2 in this exciting series gives Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars a most unusual case to crack! A young woman named Elsa Hoffman seeks out the detective when her aunt dies a mysterious death. When the gang starts investigating, seemingly real ghosts suddenly appear and Elsa is being followed by shady characters. Holmes must decide if he and his assistants can solve the case without facing mortal danger. Join the Irregulars for a mysterious and frightening adventure and decide if this is a case of the supernatural or more dark con men, thieves, and murderers!

In this title, from killer king Oedipus to monstrous Medusa's horrible hair, the classic Greek legends are back... with a modern twist. Heroic Heracles sits his SATs and the wife of top god Zeus spills the beans about her legendary husband. Discover foul fact about furies, harpies and other killer creatures plus the evils of the Underworld revealed. This title is 100% horrible.

Ellen hasn't seen Andy for years — and the transformation is incredible. He's tall, with high cheekbones and tousled hair. If Ellen was normal, she'd have a massive crush on him. But Ellen is dying. Her illness is a mystery. It's as if all the strength is slowly being sucked from her. What dark force is reaching out to claim her, draining her lifeblood away? This is a dark, compelling vampire thriller from the author of Witch Child.