Help is here! Numbers Dot-to-Dots Homework Helper provides children in preschool to grade 1 with extra help learning numbers. Packed full of fun-to-do activities and appealing art, children will have fun completing the dot-to-dots and learning numbers at the same time. Answer keys are included where needed. Reproducible. Our cost-effective Homework Helpers are a must-have! They provide help for students who need extra practice with basic skills, for the accelerated student who enjoys an extra challenge, and for the young learner who is developing basic concepts and readiness skills. They also help boost self-confidence and reinforce basic skills with activities that are geared to the specific grade level. Collect all 48 titles for preschool to grade 3 including alphabet, numbers, shapes, phonics, math, reading comprehension, and much more!

A thorough understanding of numbers and math is a basic life skill, best learned when young. This colorful activity book is designed to help reinforce those essential skills, to build confidence through practice and to make learning fun. The activities have been designed in consultation with an enthusiastic elementary school math specialist and include the skills required in the math curriculums for children aged five to seven.

— Given a handful of markers or crayons, no young child can resist these colorful activity books!p– Designed to be used with an adult’s guidance, they are carefully planned to develop basic reading, writing, and math skills.p– First Learning provides children with hours of fun while developing vital skills such as concentration, hand control and visual awareness.

DIVThe Summer Smarts series provides an enjoyable, substantive bridge between grades during the summer, when a child most needs a refresher! And because young children begin to anticipate going back to school and face the pressures and expectations of a higher, more difficult grade, Summer Smarts activity books are designed to offer them a fun way to increase their confidence and self-esteem. This new series of activity workbooks is designed to meet the demand for the growing in-home educational market. It is the only series to include a unique integration of material, combining elementary school subjects such as phonics, spelling, math, and geography into one friendly workbook. Offers engaging, motivational exercises that reinforce the skills and knowledge learned during the previous school year. Arranged in a logical sequence, the worksheets move progressively from basic concepts to more difficult ones. A carefully selected Book Section supports a literature-based approach./div

DIVWriting of Samrat Upadhyay’s debut story collection, critics raved: “like a Buddhist Chekhov . . . speak s] to common truths . . . startlingly good” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “subtle and spiritually complex” (New York Times). Upadhyay’s first novel showcases his finest writing and his signature themes. The Guru of Love is a moving and important story — important for what it illuminates about the human need to love as well as lust, and for the light it shines on the political situation in Nepal and elsewhere.brRamchandra is a math teacher earning a low wage and living in a small apartment with his wife and two children. Moonlighting as a tutor, he engages in an illicit affair with one of his tutees, Malati, a beautiful, impoverished young woman who is also a new mother. She provides for him what his wife, who comes from a privileged background, does not: desire, mystery, and a simpler life. Complicating matters are various political concerns and a small city bursting with the conflicts of modernization, a static government, and a changing population. Just as the city must contain its growing needs, so must Ramchandra learn to accommodate both tradition and his very modern desires.brAbsolutely absorbing yet deceptively simple, this novel cements Upadhyay’s emerging status as one of our most exciting new writers./divDIVThere is an international fraternity of artists of the middle-class. What animates these artists’ moral vision is above all compassion. The universality of this class and those themes is demonstrated in Samrat Upadhyay’s first novel, The Guru of Love.brThe New York Times Book ReviewbrbrThe Guru of Love effectively weaves together the complicated dichotmies of man and mistress, love and lust, tradition and modernity… USA TodaybrbrReads like a graceful, page-turning mixture of stirring romance and social commentary. -Entertainment Weekly Entertainment WeeklybrbrA triump?Ð

PB/BA new book that focuses on interactive teaching, a new, more effective technique for helping elementary-school children learn mathematics.BKEY TOPICS:/BIt has an interactive teaching approach, with its focus on reasoning, problem-solving, and communicating, has been proven effective with children at all levels of mathematics competence. Coverage examines the use of models and children’s intuitive understanding to help young learners develop mathematics concepts and learn problem- solving procedures. Includes a chapter devoted to using interactive teaching with children with special needs.B/BFor educators in the field of mathematics./Pbrbrb 1. New Directions in Elementary School Mathematics./bbrbrbrb 2. Solving Mathematics Problems in the Elementary School./bbrbrbrb 3. Learning About Number in the Early School Years./bbrbrbrb 4. Developing Base Ten and Place-Value Knowledge./bbrbrbrb 5. Learning the Operations for Whole Numbers./bbrbrbrb 6. Mastering the Basic Facts./bbrbrbrb 7. Computation with Whole Numbers./bbrbrbrb 8. Learning About Fractions./bbrbrbrb 9. Computing with Fractions./bbrbrbrb10. Understanding and Computing with Decimals./bbrbrbrb11. Exploring Geometry and Developing Spatial Sense./bbrbrbrb12. Measurement Learning: Understanding and Skill./bbrbrbrb13. Studying Ratio, Proportion, and Percent./bbrbrbrb14. Studying Statistics and Probability./bbrbrbrb15. Mathematics for Children with Special Needs./bbrbrbrbAppendixes./bbrbrbrbIndex./bbr

Help is here! Rhyming Words Color, Trace, and Learn Homework Helper provides children in preschool to grade 1 with extra help learning basic word skills. Packed full of fun-to-do activities and appealing art, children will have fun completing the pages and learning word skills at the same time. Answer keys are included where needed. Reproducible. Our cost-effective Homework Helpers are a must-have! They provide help for students who need extra practice with basic skills, for the accelerated student who enjoys an extra challenge, and for the young learner who is developing basic concepts and readiness skills. They also help boost self-confidence and reinforce basic skills with activities that are geared to the specific grade level. Collect all 48 titles for preschool to grade 3 including alphabet, numbers, shapes, phonics, math, reading comprehension, and much more!

Just-right for young learners! These engaging hands-on activities introduce and reinforce concepts about geometric shapes, patterns, symmetry, spatial relationships, and more. Features reproducible games, movement activities, and literature links to help children learn and understand key concepts, build math vocabulary, problem solve, and connect shapes to their everyday world. Includes whole-class, small group, and learning center activities. For use with Grades PreK-K.

Colorful illustrations and rhyming verse takes young minds on a road to savings and learning about the value of money. By filling in built-in coin slots, children can save more than $20 in change while building early math skills.

Myth, legend, and folklore have been entrenched in children’s literature for several centuries and continue to be popular. Some of the most ancient traditional tales still extant come from the Celtic cultures of France and the British Isles, whose languages are among the oldest in Europe. Among these tales are four native Welsh legends collectively known as the Mabinogi, which were first translated into English in 1845 by Lady Charlotte Guest. Numerous children’s books have been based on the Mabinogi since then, and many have received awards and critical acclaim. Because these books are written for children, they are not necessarily faithful retellings of the original tales. Instead, authors have had to select certain elements to include and others to exclude. This book examines how authors of children’s fantasy literature from the 19th century to the present have adapted Welsh myth to meet the perceived needs of their young audience. The volume begins with a summary of the four principle tales of the Mabinogi: Pwyll Prince of Dyfed, Branwen Daughter of Llyr, Manawydan Son of Llyr, and Math Son of Mathonwy. Books based on the Mabinogi generally fall into two categories: retellings of the myths, and original works of fantasy partially inspired by the Welsh tales. Beginning with Sidney Lanier’s The Boy’s Mabinogion, the first part of this book examines versions of the myths published for children between 1881 and 1988. The second part discusses imaginative literature that borrows elements from the Mabinogi, including Alan Garner’s The Owl Service, which won a Carnegie medal, and Lloyd Alexander’s Chronicles of Prydain, the final volume of which received the ALA Newbery Award foroutstanding children’s book.