First Grade Page Per Day: Reading Skills by Sylvan Learning

2012-05-08T00:30:00-05:00

First Grade Page Per Day: Reading Skills
Written by Sylvan Learning

Trade Paperback, 64 pages | Sylvan Learning Publishing | Language Arts - Reading Skills; Language Arts - Literacy; Language Arts | $6.99 | 978-0-307-94459-7 (0-307-94459-X)

Learn the Basics with Just One Page of Activities Each Day!

Sylvan Learning's First Grade Page Per Day: Reading Skills uses engaging games and activities to help children become familiar with reading skills, including:

· Beginning, Middle & Ending Sounds
· Short & Long Vowels
· Syllables
· Word Grouping
· Reading Comprehension

Students develop reading comprehension skills while they complete fun activities, such as:

· Going "maze crazy" helping a frog hop through a maze by connecting pictures and vowel sounds
· Deducing compound words by looking at picture pairs like dog + house, or door + bell
· Looking for clues in short stories to understand the sequence of a story and make predictions
· And much more!

With perforated pages that can easily be removed for short, portable lessons, First Grade Page Per Day: Reading Skills will help give your child daily exposure to activities that are both fun and educational!

How to Read a Myth by William Marderness

2009-04-10T00:30:00-05:00

How to Read a Myth
Written by William Marderness

Hardcover, 152 pages | Humanity Books | Social Science - Folklore & Mythology; Literary Criticism & Collections - Ancient & Classical; Language Arts - Literacy | $26.99 | 978-1-59102-640-2 (1-59102-640-7)

Confusion surrounds the idea of myth. In common parlance, the term myth often means falsehood, as in the sentence The administration's claim that inflation is under control is a myth. Scholars understand myth in a deeper sense, as an important expression of a society's values. Scholars study myths of the past, such as ancient Greek and Roman myths, and myths of contemporary society, such as those embodied in sports, politics, and religion. Roland Barthes and Mircea Eliade pioneered two contrasting yet equally influential theories of myth.Until now, no one has successfully integrated Barthes' interpretation of myth as a system of signs and Eliade's interpretation of myth as a sacred narrative. In this important contribution to the study of myth, philosopher William Marderness proposes a comprehensive theory that accounts for the diverse interpretations of Barthes and Eliade, among others. Marderness articulates four ways of understanding myth: mythical reading (myth as truth), cultural reading (myth as cultural convention), extra mythical reading (myth as enigma), and mythological reading (myth as artifice). Through this interpretive framework, Marderness explicates portions of the Bible, Virgil's "Aeneid", Anchee Min's "Red Azalea", and Julia Alvarez's "In the Time of the Butterflies". Marderness shows us through diverse contexts how his comprehensive theory enriches our understanding of myth as cultural expression.

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First Grade Page Per Day: Reading Skills by Sylvan Learning

First Grade Page Per Day: Reading Skills Written by Sylvan Learning

How to Read a Myth by William Marderness

How to Read a Myth Written by William Marderness

First Grade Page Per Day: Reading Skills
Written by Sylvan Learning

How to Read a Myth
Written by William Marderness