**Winner Creative Child Magazine 2018 Book of the Year Award****2017 Freeman Book Award Honorable Mention for Children's Literature** My First Book of Vietnamese Words is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces Vietnamese language and culture to young children through everyday words.
My name is Daniel Eisan, I am nineteen years old and live in a little town called South Shields in the North East of England; I have always had a creative mind and when I was given the chance to write a story for children as a school project I knew just what to do, and so The Lonely Peach was born.
Millies Adventures is a collection of fictional short stories that provide a glimpse of life through the eyes of an eager ten-year-old girl in rural West Virginia in 1944.
The Lonely Peach is about a Peach called Percy who is picked off a tree by a Farmer called FarmerGreen, he escapes from the farm so he is not sold on themarket, he begins to realize that the world outside thefarm is not so safe after all as he finds himself in allkinds of danger; that is of course until he meets a friendlyowl named Oliva, Percy quickly becomes friends with herand she helps him make his way home to save his brothersand sisters from being sold; Percy convinces Farmer Greento not sell them and to let Oliva live with them, they allgo back home and Percy tells them about his adventure.
Many standard reading assessment approaches fail to capture the strengths and needs of students from diverse sociocultural, linguistic, and academic backgrounds.
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Translating cutting-edge research into practical recommendations for assessment and instruction, this book has helped thousands of readers understand the key role of phonological awareness in the development of reading, writing, and spelling.
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Recent educational reform initiatives such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) largely fail to address the needs--or tap into the unique resources--of students who are developing literacy skills in both English and a home language.
Recent educational reform initiatives such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) largely fail to address the needs--or tap into the unique resources--of students who are developing literacy skills in both English and a home language.
In our knowledge-based society, K8 students need to develop increasingly sophisticated skills to read, write, and speak for a wide variety of purposes and audiences.
In our knowledge-based society, K8 students need to develop increasingly sophisticated skills to read, write, and speak for a wide variety of purposes and audiences.
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Showcasing cutting-edge findings on adolescent literacy teaching and learning, this unique handbook is grounded in the realities of students daily lives.
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In order to succeed in school and beyond, students in grades 6-12 need to understand and use both academic language and discipline-specific vocabulary.
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