Kids love jokes; and teachers and SLPs love fast and eary ways to improve students' phonological awareness. That's why every elementary and middle-school SLP and educator needs this playful, effective activity book, packed with jokes and riddles that increase students' awreness of the phonemes that makeup words. The perfect way to avoid "drill and kill" instruction while still giving children the strong foundation they need to be successful readers, Sounds Like Fun: enhances the literacy skills children need for academic success; uses humour as an effective learning tool; helps older student work on phonological awareness skills; requires no extra training or materials; and works with all students, including children with learning disabilities, struggling readers, and English language learners. Complete with clear instructions and helpful appendices of consonant and vaowl sounds, this activity book is a simple, cost-effective, and reliable way to make learning key literacy skills fun for the whole class.

While her friends are outside playing, Ashley must stay in and practice for her piano recital.

Mrs. Decibel is putting on a concert for the town, but the performers sound terrible! Join Paisley and Ben on a new adventure as they investigate. This title includes activities, websites, and a spotlight on women in science. Paired to the nonfiction title Waves of Light and Sound.

That Sounds Like Fun is an ABC book with a twist. Each page contains silly sentences alliteratively demonstrating a sound in American English. It also contains the Spanish translation of the English and at the bottom of each page is a dictionary-like sound reference. At the back of the book there is an illustrated sound index along with a page for the young reader to personalize with his own creative juices and a portrait gallery of all of the characters in the book, arranged alphabetically.

Welcome to the world of optical gaming, where your body is the conduit through which your mind can explore vast dreamscapes, blurring the lines between the surreal and the visceral, the psychedelic and the psychotic. OpTale is an immersive gaming experience that snares its users like a drug. It taps into the visual cortex through encoded contact-lenses to craft an enveloping, shared reality for its users; a world that is a programed, waking dream. You can choose to be a superhero, a spy or a sex god; you can be anything you want inside an OpTale. But how do you wake up when you can't tell you're dreaming? And how do you suppress the urge to play when the game decides you are the enemy? An exploration of addiction, sensory-overload and a bleak, not too distant future, OpTale is the story of one man's bizarre mission to crack the code of the 'Tales, to get behind the graphic interface and beyond.

Octavia has always lived in her sister's shadow. A perpetual student, she's this close to fulfilling her dream – a VR world that brings history to life. Until a freak accident destroys all her work and sends her back to square one. Harlow has spent half his life paying for his brother's mistakes. Enough is enough. He's not going to help Grant this time. Instead, he's going to keep a lady scholar company, and to hell with whatever Grant wants. Until he discovers Grant may hold the secret to breaking both Harlow and Octavia from the spell binding them…

All Victoria wanted was a nice life, it did not have to be perfect just nicer than it was now. She wanted to escape from her past, all the hurt and pain that came from her childhood, a failed marriage and the death of her boyfriend. Angel saves Victoria's life by moving her to Texas and allowing Victoria to stay with her. Once she arrives in Texas, she meets the gorgeous Luke Matthews who quickly shakes Victoria out of her safety bubble and tries to show her that she can be happy. Will he be enough to protect her from the past, or will a startling new development change everything for her and make her question everything she thought was real?

When Shayde Gamic reaches her sixteenth birthday, a family secret is revealed to her that both explains and complicates her life. Things that have seemed strange all her life begin to make sense, and she embraces this new knowledge wholeheartedly. Her only regret is that this knowledge might threaten her burgeoning relationship with seventeen-year-old Kruise Wright. As their relationship develops, Shayde struggles to decide how to reveal her true nature, unaware that the effect of this revelation will be even more momentous and potentially devastating than she ever imagined. Can she fulfill the destiny bestowed on her by her ancestors, or will her love for Kruise ultimately destroy her?

Why are some sounds loud, while others quiet? What is DTS sound? How is an echo formed? What are the causes of sound pollution? This book answers such questions and many more. Filled with detailed diagrams, fun experiments, and interesting trivia, it helps readers understand the fascinating science of sound.

Amy and Ginger, fraternal twins, realise how much different they are from the average human. During a journey on meeting different covens, the biggest truth that was kept from them is presented at the most inconvenient time. How do Amy and Ginger know the truth from the lies? How do Amy and Ginger survive their lives of not knowing who and what their father is? What about the maternal figure of both Amy and Ginger? There might not be a direct answer to what Amy and Ginger will face.