The Alphabet Book is the Fitzroy Method's pre-reading and writing book. It teaches all of the letters and is filled with pages of enjoyable games and activities.The Alphabet Book has several pages of pre-writing exercises to help develop the fine motor skills (co-ordination) of young children.With this work book, children:· practise letter recognition,· linking letters to images,· making their first two-letter words,· learn to write the letters,· learn the basic sounds of the letters, and· begin to get acquainted with alphabetical order.There are many practical activities on each letter page.After learning the letters, children are introduced to two-letter words, and write them into picture sentences.

Children who are up to these Readers are often able to read simple fictional works, for instance Choose Your Own Adventure stories and the like. This is a great thrill for them.At advanced levels, Readers occasionally teach up to three new sounds. This speeds up learning without overburdening the now competent reader.Due to the systematic structure of the program, even more complex sentences are soon no problem.Notice how the special (i.e. sight) words work together with the spelling patterns learned. Together they help form a base from which children can 'decode' huge numbers of words - even ones they have never seen before.

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: All aboard for a train ride through the alphabet! Whether chug-chug-chugging up a mountainside in an Incline train or zipping at super speed in a Bullet train, trains will get you where you need to be—A to Z! There is a train—some familiar and some unusual—for every letter of the alphabet. Trains are used all over the world for carrying people and cargo from place to place. With a bouncy rhyming text, and clever illustrations full of visual cues, young readers will love learning all about trains. A companion to the Children's Book Award nominated Alphabet Trucks! From the Hardcover edition.

Readers 11-20 systematically introduce many new digraphs (e.g sh and er). Used together with the basic letter sounds (a for apple, b for bat etc.), they enable students to effortlessly decode large numbers of words.Readers 11-20 keep things simple and introduce only one new digraph (e.g. sh) per reader. This makes for sure and steady progress. Here we introduce the first 3-letter digraph (all). As usual, to aid memory it is used many times throughout the Reader.Some single-letter new sounds like y as in by or e as in he are also taught. This helps children read many common words.All new sounds (e.g. ar as in Mars) and special words (like space) are learned in the context of a story. This makes them easy to remember.

Readers 1-10 are the very first readers, following immediately on from the Alphabet Book. This first set of readers systematically introduces all basic letter sounds along with several essential special words.Very quickly, children experience the joy of being able to read ?books? for themselves. They will be able to read simple sentences with confidence.

An alphabet book with exciting extras! Rhyming lines make it a fun read aloud to start off very young readers on the path of letters Older children will relish its rhythms as well as the wacky introduction to creatures known and new The bright, bold cutout pictures come together as a colorful first collage of animals and birds, creatures from land and sea From an internationally renowned writer-illustrator

A bold new short story collection from one of the most exhilarating and innovative writers of our time. The stories in Leaving the Sea take place in a world which is a distortion of our own, where strange illnesses strike at random and where people disappear without a trace. Ben Marcus has created a labyrinth populated by disturbed, weary men; from the frustrated creative writing teacher to the advocate of self-inhumation; from Paul, whose return home leads him further into his isolation, or Mather, whose child is sick, to an unnamed narrator who spends his lonely evenings calculating the probabilities of his mother's imminent demise. Dark, funny and utterly unique, Leaving the Sea showcases a writer at the height of his powers.

This broad selection of Australian poets begins with Kenneth Slessor, and offers a challenging view of 'early modern' poetry up until the 1960s. It also presents the decade of turmoil from 1965 to 1975 in a new light, identifying currents of energy among the young writers and balancing new reputations with old. The years from 1965 to the 1990s are revealed as a time of growing vigour and diversity.

Hundreds of mighty tomes have been written about the great colonial years when Britain ruled the waves but perhaps none summed it up so succinctly as this ABC for Baby Patriots first published in 1899. It provides an extraordinary view of the Victorian values and attitudes that made Britain great.