There are lots of different kinds of plants. From the grass beneath our feet to the fruits and vegetables we eat, plant life surrounds us. This engaging book gives budding readers a guide to growing plants of their own. Whether planting a vegetable garden or planting flowers, most plants come from tiny seeds. From there, readers learn how to water these seeds and tend to what soon comes out of the ground, learning an essential life process with the help of colorful photographs paired with simple text.

Cleaning sounds like a tough and dirty job, but it can be fun! Budding readers learn how to take the tough task of cleaning up and make the most of it, helping their families and the environment along the way. Through vivid photographs paired with accessible text, readers see how a family cleans up bedrooms, the kitchen, the car, and even the front yard. This engaging book is sure to get readers on a spring cleaning kick, as they learn the value of a clean home and a job well done.

This parent-friendly bilingual resource is full of easy-to-use activities that are sure to keep students sharp during the away-from-school gap! Students risk falling behind at the start of a new school year without practicing skills learned in the previous year. The second edition of this parent-involvement resource provides students with reading, writing, and mathematics activities aligned to Common Core and other state standards that reinforce learning from prekindergarten and prepare them for kindergarten. A 14-page introduction section for parents and instructions for each student activity are written in both English and Spanish to help parents get involved in their child's education. With quick and fun family activities, this is the perfect full-color resource to set students up for a successful school year.

This edited volume explores diverse translanguaging practices in multilingual science classrooms in Hong Kong, Lebanon, Luxembourg, South Africa, Sweden and the United States. It presents novel opportunities for using students’ home, first or minority languages as meaning-making tools in science education. It also invites to explore the use of language resources and other multimodal resources, such as gestures and body language. In addition, it discusses and problematizes contingent hindrances and obstacles that may arise from these practices within various contexts around the world. This includes reviewing different theoretical starting points that may be challenged by such an approach. These issues are explored from different perspectives and methodological focus, as well as in several educational contexts, including primary, middle, secondary levels, higher education, as well as in after-school programs for refugee teenagers. Within these contexts, the book highlights and shares a range of educational tools and activities in science education, such as teacher-led classroom-talk, language-focused teaching, teachers’ use of meta-language, teachers’ scaffolding strategies, small-group interactions, and computer-supported collaborative learning.

Pets are wonderful and loving members of any family, but they need special care. Through colorful photographs and accessible text, early readers learn how to care for their special animal friends. Dogs, cats, and fish are great pets for young children, and teaching them how to care for a pet lets them learn responsibility and how to complete tasks at a young age. By watching others take care of pets, readers gain knowledge they can put to good use with the pets in their own home.

Whether wearing a uniform or picking out their own clothes, it’s not always easy for children to get up and get ready in the morning. In this book, early readers learn about this essential part of everyday life, learning how they can help their own families get the day started. This glimpse at a typical morning in a house sending its two children off to school is aided by colorful photographs matched with accessible text, showing readers how peers prepare for school by getting dressed and taking care of basic hygiene like brushing their hair.

Kids Learn! is a parent-involvement resource designed to bridge the away-from-school gap in instruction with standards-based activities in reading, writing, and mathematics. The resource also: models how parents and caregivers can be more involved with their child's learning during vacations and other breaks from school reinforces information learned during the just-ended school year, while preparing students for the upcoming grade leveloffers suggestions for quick and fun family activities that will provide a rich knowledge base for students to draw upon in the coming school year

Whether they’re stuck on a homework question or just need a push on a swing, friends need each other! This book shows budding readers that not only could friends use a hand, but it can be rewarding and even fun to help out. Pairing accessible text with colorful photographs of friends lending others their time and effort, readers learn how their peers help their friends clean up their neighborhood or learn how to read. They even discover how they can team up with their own friends to stay safe or clean up trash in their neighborhood.