I spy the color...red! There is no more effective learning strategy than to make the review of colors into a game. This vibrant volume helps beginning readers assess their understanding of all the colors of the rainbow and practice their emerging reading skills. They are asked to locate a familiar object of a certain color among other brightly colored objects. The entertaining images were specially selected to encourage vocabulary acquisition, reader motivation, and to cause amusement.
Identifying attributes of objects is a staple of early elementary education, and one of these attributes is size. This valuable volume provides an excellent opportunity for review and assessment of the appropriate use of size words, such as big, small, large, and little, along with other vocabulary that young readers should become familiar with. The at-level text is specially crafted to be achievable for beginning readers. They will find plenty of visual cues in the bright photographs featured throughout this engaging book.
Shape recognition is a fundamental part of pre-K and kindergarten classrooms. This fun book, with its appealing photographs, provides an entertaining way for young learners to practice their reading skills and hone their understanding of an important math standard. Throughout the accessible narrative, readers are asked to identify various shapes, such as triangles, rectangles, circles, and ovals, among multiple images, allowing many opportunities for assessment. Early readers will enjoy a feeling of accomplishment for mastering this crucial concept.
Numbers are everywhere, and adults recognize them and count objects without even thinking about it. The youngest mathematicians, however, need practice to achieve this level of proficiency. This clever volume helps readers "spy" numbers among several colorful images that they'll recognize from their everyday lives. As they complete these activities, they will learn which numbers they may need to review more and which they have mastered. They will also practice their reading skills through simple, achievable text supported by the visual clues.
Learning to recite the alphabet is an important step to reading. This beneficial book builds on that crucial step, asking readers to locate letters of the alphabet among a variety of colorful images that begin with those letters. They'll review their knowledge of what different letters look like and how they differ from other letters while honing their reading fluency with simple sentences. Emerging readers will love the appealing pictures and find the activity of spying letters motivating and rewarding.
The overall concept of money usually comes easily to young learners who curiously watch the exchange of money for goods from an early age. However, noticing the distinguishing characteristics of different kinds of money, such as coins and paper notes, is a bit trickier. This helpful and engaging book is an excellent companion for those who are learning to discern the different types of money. It also touches on the valuable skills of sorting and classifying, which are important concepts in early elementary math curricula.
Begin each Spanish class with lively, interactive activities from award-winning foreign-language teacher Rebekah Stathakis. With ideas for writing and speaking exercises, impromptu presentations, and more, these warm-ups will immerse students in Spanish, engaging them in their language instruction effectively and immediately.
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2009 "This ground-breaking resource is strongly recommended for all libraries and health and welfare institutional depots; essential for university collections, especially those catering to social studies programs." —Library Journal, STARRED Review Children and adults spend a great deal of time in activities we think of as "play," including games, sports, and hobbies. Without thinking about it very deeply, almost everyone would agree that such activities are fun, relaxing, and entertaining. However, play has many purposes that run much deeper than simple entertainment. For children, play has various functions such as competition, following rules, accepting defeat, choosing leaders, exercising leadership, practicing adult roles, and taking risks in order to reap rewards. For adults, many games and sports serve as harmless releases of feelings of aggression, competition, and intergroup hostility. The Encyclopedia of Play in Today′s Society explores the concept of play in history and modern society in the United States and internationally. Its scope encompasses leisure and recreational activities of children and adults throughout the ages, from dice games in the Roman Empire to video games today. With more than 450 entries, these two volumes do not include coverage of professional sports and sport teams but, instead, cover the hundreds of games played not to earn a living but as informal activity. All aspects of play—from learning to competition, mastery of nature, socialization, and cooperation—are included. Simply enough, this Encyclopedia explores play played for the fun of it! Key Features Available in both print and electronic formats Provides access to the fascinating literature that has explored questions of psychology, learning theory, game theory, and history in depth Considers the affects of play on child and adult development, particularly on health, creativity, and imagination Contains entries that describe both adult and childhood play and games in dozens of cultures around the world and throughout history Explores the sophisticated analyses of social thinkers such as Huizinga, Vygotsky, and Sutton-Smith, as well as the wide variety of games, toys, sports, and entertainments found around the world Presents cultures as diverse as the ancient Middle East, modern Russia, and China and in nations as far flung as India, Argentina, and France Key Themes Adult Games Board and Card Games Children′s Games History of Play Outdoor Games and Amateur Sports Play and Education Play Around the World Psychology of Play Sociology of Play Toys and Business Video and Online Games For a subject we mostly consider light-hearted, play as a research topic has generated an extensive and sophisticated literature, exploring a range of penetrating questions. This two-volume set serves as a general, nontechnical resource for academics, researchers, and students alike. It is an essential addition to any academic library.
