Wow! Full-color, ready-to-use art PLUS activities that are based on the latest research on literacy. Everything s provided. Just cut out the pieces needed to create great-looking learning centers or fun-filled games. Follow the step-by-step directions, and watch the learning take place! 176 full-color pages.

This revised edition shows children how familiar plants and animals develop over their lifetimes. Illustrated with high-quality photos and illustrations, a timeline runs across the bottom of each page for quick reference.

"Letter-a-week" may be a ubiquitous approach to teaching alphabet knowledge, but that doesn't mean it's an effective one. In No More Teaching a Letter a Week, early literacy researcher Dr. William Teale helps us understand that alphabet knowledge is more than letter recognition, and identifies research-based principles of effective alphabet instruction, which constitutes the foundation for phonics teaching and learning. Literacy coach Rebecca McKay shows us how to bring those principles to life through purposeful practices that invite children to create an identity through print. Children can and should do more than glue beans into the shape of a "B"; they need to learn how letters create words that carry meaning, so that they can, and do, use print to expand their understanding of the world and themselves.

A box is just a box . . . unless it's not a box. From mountain to rocket ship, a small rabbit shows that a box will go as far as the imagination allows. Inspired by a memory of sitting in a box on her driveway with her sister, Antoinette Portis captures the thrill when pretend feels so real that it actually becomes real—when the imagination takes over and inside a cardboard box, a child is transported to a world where anything is possible.

Letters and Sounds is brimming with developmentally appropriate centers, activities, games. and songs that are perfect for helping young children learn to name alphabet letters, separate sounds in spoken words, and associate sounds with letters. With these kid-pleasing suggestions, not only is it easy to nurture early literacy growth--it's tons of fun too!

Learning to read is fun with activities, games and manipulatives, featuring ready-to-use patterns to delight emergent readers. The phonics-building fun includes Old Mother Hubbard's Rhyming Cupboard, Hickory Dickory Consonant Clock, and more. Illustrations.