Education:

Games for Reading

Written by Peggy Kaye

Format: eBook, 240 pages
On Sale: May 2, 2012
Price: $14.99

HERE ARE OVER SEVENTY GAMES TO HELP YOUR CHILD LEARN TO READ--AND LOVE IT.

Peggy Kaye's Games for Reading helps children read by doing just what kids like best: playing games.  There is a "bingo" game that helps children learn vocabulary. There is a rhyming game that helps them hear letter sounds more... Read more >

Sleeping on the Wing
An Anthology of Modern Poetry with Essays on Reading and Writing
Written by Kenneth Koch and Kate Farrell

Format: eBook, 336 pages
On Sale: February 8, 2012
Price: $11.99

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Rose, Where Did You Get That Red?
Teaching Great Poetry to Children
Written by Kenneth Koch

Format: eBook, 416 pages
On Sale: January 11, 2012
Price: $11.99

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Best Books for Kids Who (Think They) Hate to Read
125 Books That Will Turn Any Child into a Lifelong Reader
Written by Laura Backes

Format: eBook, 400 pages
On Sale: January 4, 2012
Price: $11.99

Get Your Child Hooked on Books!
Reading can become a favorite part of any child's life—even children who think they hate to read. And, with the help of this unique book, it's easy to put your reluctant reader on the path to becoming an enthusiastic reader. Inside are 125 books that are... Read more >

Illiterate America

Written by Jonathan Kozol

Format: eBook, 270 pages
On Sale: November 2, 2011
Price: $12.99

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Classics to Read Aloud to Your Children
Selections from Shakespeare, Twain, Dickens, O.Henry, London, Longfellow, Irving Aesop, Homer, Cervantes, Hawthorne, and More
Written by William F. Russell

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 5, 2011
Price: $13.99

A perennially popular collection of short stories, poems, legends, and myths from great works of literature that are especially appropriate for parents to read aloud to their children aged five to twelve. Line drawings.


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Parenting a Struggling Reader

Written by Susan Hall and Louisa Moats

Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $13.99

The first completely comprehensive, practical guide for recognizing, diagnosing, and overcoming any childhood reading difficulty.
According to the National Institute of Health, ten million of our nation’s children (approximately 17 percent) have trouble learning to read. While headlines warn about the nation’s reading crisis, Susan Hall (whose son was diagnosed with dyslexia)... Read more >

7 Keys to Comprehension
How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!
Written by Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins

Format: eBook
On Sale: June 3, 2008
Price: $13.99

It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children.

7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers—those who aren't already... Read more >

Welcome to Lizard Motel
Protecting the Imaginative Lives of Children
Written by Barbara Feinberg

Format: Trade Paperback, 216 pages
On Sale: September 7, 2005
Price: $15.00

Welcome to Lizard Motel is one of the most surprising books about reading and writing to come along in years. Not only does this rich and wonderfully readable memoir explore the world of children and stories, it also asks us to look at how our children are growing up. Barbara Feinberg... Read more >

Welcome to Lizard Motel
Children, Stories, and the Mystery of Making Things Up
Written by Barbara Feinberg

Format: eBook
On Sale: August 1, 2004
Price: $23.00

Welcome to Lizard Motel is a completely original memoir about the place of stories in children's lives. It began when Barbara Feinberg noticed that her twelve-year-old son, Alex, who otherwise loved to read, hated reading many of the novels assigned to him in school. These stories of abandonment, kidnapping, abuse, and... Read more >

7 Keys to Comprehension
How to Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!
Written by Susan Zimmermann and Chryse Hutchins

Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: July 22, 2003
Price: $15.00

It's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children.

7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers—those who aren't already... Read more >