Reading Success for Minecrafters: Grades 1-2


Book Description

What do children love? Minecraft! What will make them love reading? Learning it with Minecraft! This kid-friendly workbook features well-loved video game characters and concepts to reinforce the development of first and second grade reading skills laid out in the national Common Core State Standards. Colorfully-illustrated and high-interest practice pages and reading comprehension passages use diamond swords, potions, skeletons, zombies, and creepers to add an element of excitement to reading time. They will practice all of the reading skills they need in school, including: Grade 1: Phonics: Beginning and ending sounds, blends and digraphs, and long and short vowel sounds Recognizing and reading common sight words Parts of speech and sentence structure Basic reading comprehension Reading with fluency Grade 2: Vocabulary and spelling practice Part of speech and sentence structure Deepening reading comprehension: Reading for main ideas and details and Identifying cause and effect Reading with fluency Skip to the pages that suit your child's needs and learning style or start at the beginning and advance page by page–it's up to you! As the workbook progresses, the activities become more challenging so that learners of all levels can enjoy an exciting, skill-building reading adventure. Perfect for Minecrafters who learn at all paces, Reading Success for Minecrafters is as fun as it is educational–and is just what your little learner needs to get ahead academically!




Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 2


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What do children love? Minecraft! What will make them love writing? Learning vocabulary, adjectives and adverbs, and sentence structure with Minecraft! Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 2 features video game characters and concepts to encourage second grade writing practice. With Steve, Alex, zombies, creepers, and villagers to inspire them, young Minecrafters will be eager to fill the pages with their own words. Colorful art and engaging prompts invite kids to expand their vocabulary, practice proper grammar and capitalization, and write for different purposes and audiences. Each game-themed writing activity is designed to reinforce classroom learning and help kids meet the National Common Core language arts standards. Kids will get to express their creativity and writing skills with lessons in: vocabulary development adding detail with adjectives and adverbs past, present, and future tense structure sentence and paragraph structure pre-writing strategies and idea building Informational, opinion, and narrative writing Reinforce classroom learning and help them meet the National Common Core language arts standards with this kid-friendly tool. Writing for Minecrafters is the best way to get all kids excited about writing.




Tiny Infinities


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When Alice's dad moves out, leaving her with her troubled mother, she does the only thing that feels right: she retreats to her family's old Renaissance tent in the backyard, determined to live there until her dad comes home. In an attempt to keep at least one part of her summer from changing, Alice focuses on her quest to swim freestyle fast enough to get on her swim team's record board. But summers contain multitudes, and soon Alice meets an odd new friend, Harriet, whose obsession with the school's science fair is equal only to her conviction that Alice's best stroke is backstroke, not freestyle. Most unexpected of all is an unusual babysitting charge, Piper, who is mute—until Alice hears her speak. A funny and honest middle-grade novel, this sharply observed depiction of family, friendship, and Alice's determination to prove herself—as a babysitter, as a friend, as a daughter, as a person—rings loud and true.




Kid's Stories


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This collection of AWESOME Minecraft Short stories is a must have for young children who love Minecraft. It contains fun short stories along with nice pictures as well as short "mini-chapters" to make it easier to read! Inside you will find many fun short stories. Some of them are: The Bold Thief RolyPoly is very proud of the fortress he had built far away in a lonely spot. He's glad that there's finally a great place to keep his treasures safe from others! Alas, a bold thief has already started taking his diamonds, emeralds and other things. How is RolyPoly going to deal with the thief? Is it going to take brawn or brain to win? Read the story to find out! Taming the Bully How do you deal with a bully and a prankster? Report to the teacher? Rory and Fred have a better plan! They are confident that they can teach Jacob a lesson, an interesting one, in Minecraft! How do they manage to do that? Does Jacob turn into a new leaf? Read the story to find out how the prankster learns that he's not the only one who knows pranks. Skeleton War When a diamond mine was taken over by a group of skeletons, the players and villagers try everything to defeat them. But they were no ordinary skeletons! They were quick, mean and dangerous - swords and arrows were useless. Finally, the wise priest Ren suggests a way out. Does it work? Do they finally get to enter the diamond mine? Read to find out what happens in this exciting thriller. Zombie Island TMiner finds an island full of zombies and thinks he's lucky to be made the king of the island. But there are evil plans to turn him into a zombie! TMiner has to act really smart to escape from them. Does he manage to leave the Zombie Island? Read to find out! A Greedy Miner A greedy miner finds a route to a hidden treasure and sets out all alone to look for it. Do you think he will be able to find the treasure alone? Or will he find someone to help him out? Read the story to find it out for yourself.... Lost Love An evil witch has taken out the love from people's hearts and has hidden it in the dragon's room in the Nether fortress. Alex sets out for an adventure to seek that love potion. Do you think Alex will be successful in defeating the wild enormous dragon? Read the story and find out.




Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 3


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With Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 3, learning time feels more like game time! Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 3 features well-loved video game characters and concepts to encourage third grade writing practice. With Steve, Alex, zombies, creepers, and villagers to inspire them, young Minecrafters will be eager to fill the pages with their own words. Colorful art and engaging prompts invite kids to expand their vocabulary, practice proper grammar and capitalization, and write for different purposes and audiences. Each game-themed writing activity is designed to reinforce classroom learning and help kids meet the National Common Core language arts standards. Kids will get to express their creativity and writing skills with lessons in: Vocabulary development Adding detail with adjectives and adverbs Past, present, and future tense structure Sentence and paragraph structure Pre-writing strategies and idea building Informational, opinion, and narrative writing Reinforce classroom learning and help them meet the National Common Core language arts standards with this kid-friendly tool. Writing for Minecrafters is the best way to get all kids excited about writing. This educational series is created especially for readers who love the fight of good vs. evil, magical academies like Hogwarts in the Harry Potter saga, and games like Minecraft, Terraria, and Pokemon GO.




The Potion


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Perfect for kids aged 6-12! One potion. Two kids. Ten health hearts counting down as they look for an escape. Henry Croft is one of the world's biggest Minecraft fans. His favorite thing ever is potions. But when he accidentally puts the wrong ingredient into one, he finds himself sucked into the game with no idea how to get out. And to his surprise, he's not alone. Can Henry get back to his favorite gamer chair? Or will he become a zombie's dinner? The Sucked Into Minecraft Trilogy follows the epic, edge of your seat adventure of two Minecraft fans- Henry and Blue. This book is perfect for Minecraft fans, young and old, and especially designed for reluctant readers. With bespoke artwork and fun formatting your child will be waiting to read the next!




Teachability and Learnability across Languages


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Teachability and Learnability across Languages addresses key issues in second, foreign and heritage language acquisition, as well as in language teaching. Focusing on a Processability Theory perspective, it brings together empirical studies of language acquisition, language teaching, and language assessment. For the first time, a research timeline for the role of instruction in language learning is presented, showing how the field of second language acquisition (SLA) research has developed over the last four decades since Pienemann’s work on learnability and syllabus construction over the 1980s. The book includes studies of child and adult second as well as foreign language acquisition research, covering a wide range of target languages including English, German, Hungarian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish. In addition, future extensions of PT are discussed. This volume is designed for advanced students in international programs of SLA and Applied Linguistics as well as for SLA researchers and second and foreign language teachers.




The Massachusetts General Hospital Guide to Learning Disabilities


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This book connects experts in the field of child assessment to provide child psychiatrists with knowledge in evaluation and educational programming. The book provides a review of the latest science behind: common learning disabilities, including etiology and guidelines for assessment/diagnosis; neurodevelopmental disorders, like learning disabilities, ADHD; psychiatric disorders in childhood such as mood and anxiety disorders; and impact learning and development protocols. The Massachusetts General Hospital Guide to Learning Disabilities evaluates the interventions that are effective in addressing these learning challenges in the context of multiple factors in a way that no other current text does. Special topics such as special education law and managing the needs of transitional age youth allow psychiatrists to support their patients’ and their families as they navigate the system. By offering a better understanding the learning needs of their patients, this texts gives readers the tools to consult with families and educators regarding how to address the learning needs of their patients at school and in other settings. The Massachusetts General Hospital Guide to Learning Disabilities is a vital took for child psychiatrists, students, assessment professionals, and other professionals studying or working with children suffering from learning disabilities.




Integral Theory and Transdisciplinary Action Research in Education


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With its growing recognition in education, the importance of Integral Theory is slowly entering mainstream academia through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Addressing the theory’s complexity is important for researchers to learn how to apply it in their classrooms and promote a more inclusive educational environment. Integral Theory and Transdisciplinary Action Research in Education provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of the Integral Theory model and its applications within educational contexts. With a diverse array of research problems approached through an inclusive theory framework and featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as graduate student research, inclusion culture, and organizational learning processes, this publication is ideally designed for graduate students, educators, academicians, researchers, scholars, educational administrators, and policymakers seeking current research on the utility and promise of Integral Theory as a meta-framework for methodological pluralism and transdisciplinary research.




Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 1


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What is more fun than playing Minecraft. For most boys and girls, not much. So, why not use their love for their favorite game to teach them to write. Learning can be fun when it feels like a game! Writing for Minecrafters: Grade 1 features well-loved video game characters and concepts to encourage first grade writing practice. With Steve, Alex, zombies, creepers, and villagers to inspire them, young Minecrafters will be eager to fill the pages with their own words. Colorful art and engaging prompts invite kids to expand their vocabulary, practice proper grammar and capitalization, and write full sentences and paragraphs. Kids will get to express their creativity and writing skills with lessons in: vocabulary development adding detail with adjectives and adverbs past, present, and future tense structure grammar and sentence structure pre-writing strategies and idea building Informational, opinion, and narrative writing Reinforce classroom learning and help them meet the National Common Core language arts standards with this kid-friendly tool. Writing for Minecrafters is the best way to get all kids excited about writing.