Learn to read letters, sounds, words, sentences, and full stories!New to the Revised Edition, this Student Book contains all the text your child will need for the lessons in The Ordinary Parent’s Guide to Teaching Reading, Revised Edition. Created and designed based on feedback from parents and teachers over the past 20 years, the Student Book allows children to focus only on the material they are using, without being distracted by additional text in the Instructor...

An updated, easier-to-use edition of the program that helped a million parents teach their children to read.Parents can teach their children to read--no expertise required! Parents can take charge of their children’s literacy with this updated, easier-to-use edition of the classic jargon-free phonics guide. Too many parents watch their children struggle with early reading skills — and don’t know how to help. Many phonics programs are too often complicated, overpric...

A new religion curriculum from the team that brought you The Story of the World.These lesson plans, designed to accompany the weekly lessons laid out in Telling God’s Story, Year One (available separately), provide coloring pages, craft projects, and group activities to fill out an entire week of home school or private school study; a core set of activities is also provided for the use of Sunday school teachers. Coloring pages accompany each lesson and accurately r...

The third volume in the First Language Lessons series, this scripted guide uses the classical techniques of memorization, copywork, dictation, and narration to develop your child's language ability in the formative first years of study.The Level 3 Instructor Guide for First Language Lessons for the Well-Trained Mind reinforces the grammar and writing concepts introduced in the previous levels. It also introduces new material, including sentence diagramming. This in...

A simple-to-use, scripted guide to grammar and composition that makes successful teaching easy—for both parents and students.This volume, the Level 4 Instructor Guide in the complete elementary grammar series, uses classical techniques of memorization, dictation, and narration to develop your child's language ability in the important, foundational years of language study. The text covers a full range of grammar topics, including parts of speech, punctuation, senten...

A complete beginning grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical techniques to develop the young student’s language ability.Scripted lessons give the teacher direction and confidence, while exquisite pencil reproductions of great paintings are used to encourage children in oral composition. Originally published as a single two-year volume, Level 1 (Grade 1, this book) and Level 2 (Grade 2, available separately) have been redesigne...

A complete beginning grammar text that uses copywork, narration, picture study, and other classical techniques to develop the young student’s language ability.Scripted lessons give the teacher direction and confidence, while exquisite pencil reproductions of great paintings are used to encourage children in oral composition. Originally published as a single two-year volume, Level 2 (Grade 2, this book) and Level 1 (Grade 1, available separately) have been redesigne...

There are 263 countries in the world. Of these 263 countries, the sovereignty of several are disputed. Only 193 are members of the United Nations, one more is classified as an observer state, and twelve are not currently members of the United Nations. Russia is the largest country in the world and Vatican City is the smallest country.This book contains a truley fantastic collection of 263 maps covering every inch of the globe.

Teach yourself how to play guitar with our easy slide guitar lessons for beginners.***Comes with online access to free audio demonstrating all examples. Hear how examples are played by a teacher, then play along with the backing band.***"I wanted to learn to play slide guitar and learn from a source that really teaches it well. I looked over quite a few books and then found this one. No other source is needed in my opinion. Plenty right here in this boo...

An essential reference for all elementary teachersThis comprehensive resource contains useful lists on all the subjects elementary teachers need, from core content to tips on classroom management to advice for students on study skills. The lists highlight vital areas of interest including reading, writing, mathematics, science, social studies, developing social skills, developing effective study skills, and working with an inclusive classroom.350 reproducible lists on...

This practical, teacher-friendly book provides indispensable guidance for implementing research-based reading instruction that is responsive to students' diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. Structured around the “big five” core topics of an effective reading program—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension—the book explains tried-and-true teaching strategies for fostering all students' achievement. Key topics include engaging diverse students in classroo...

A Guided Skills-Based Journey is a series of books aimed at developing key reading and study skills. This brilliant new series provides teachers with a wide variety of genres, both fiction and non-fiction, which will allow children to access, interpret and understand what they are reading. It increases the child's knowledge and understanding of why certain words are chosen by an author. It gives the reader the chance to speculate on the tone and purpose of the texts, as well as consider bo...