Listen, Read, & Learn Volume 4


Book Description

Listen, Read, and Learn Volume 4 for prekindergarten to kindergarten enchants children with the following stories: -The Little Mermaid -The Velveteen Rabbit -The Wizard of Oz -Little Red Riding Hood Each story includes a free MP3 audio file download and early learning activity pages. Build vocabulary while encouraging a love of reading with Listen, Read, and Learn Volume 4. Each of the four popular tales engages children with bold illustrations and an MP3 audio file download that they can use on any device. Each story features learning activities to help your child understand characters and events, learn new vocabulary words, practice sounds, and more. Filled with fairy tales, the Listen, Read, and Learn series combines imagination and education for an unforgettable learning experience! By offering free MP3 downloads, this series helps children understand print concepts like turning pages from right to left and connecting the sounds of words with the printed page. These pages use favorite stories as a fun way to develop early learning skills for success.




Listen and Learn


Book Description

Knowing how to listen is essential to learning, growing, and getting along with others. Simple words and inviting illustrations help children develop skills for listening, understand why it’s important to listen, and recognize the positive results of listening. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities. The Learning to Get Along® Series The Learning to Get Along series helps children learn, understand, and practice basic social and emotional skills. Real-life situations, lots of diversity, and concrete examples make these read-aloud books appropriate for home and childcare settings, schools, and special education settings. Each book ends with a section of discussion questions, games, and activities adults can use to reinforce what children have learned. All titles are available in English-Spanish bilingual editions.




Why Should I Listen?


Book Description

The boy at the centre of this book finds it hard to listen, and consequently gets into all sorts of trouble, such as getting lost in a museum and having to wear a really embarrassing pair of swimming trunks at a friend's party. However, he feels lonely and invisible when no one listens to him, so now he makes an extra special effort to listen, and finds that sometimes listening can bring nice things, such as ice cream!




Yes, I Can Listen!


Book Description

Listening is an essential life skill that helps children achieve success at school, follow safety rules and show others that they care about them. In a world filled with distractions, being a "good listener" has become more difficult than ever. The playful rhymes of Yes, I Can Listen! encourage children to appreciate the rewards of attentive listening. With sweet characters, varied type faces, and vivid colors, this picture book introduces a variety of listening scenarios. Each two-page spread let children imagine how they might listen in a number of common situations. Yes, I Can Listen! concludes with a page of suggestions for parents who wish to explore more activities that encourage and develop their children's listening skills.




Learning to Listen


Book Description

From his childhood in Waco, Texas, where he took expert care of nine small cousins while the adults ate Sunday lunch, to Princeton and an offer from Broadway, to medical and psychoanalytic training, to the exquisite observations into newborn behavior that led babies to be seen in an entirely new light, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton's life has been one of innovation and caring. Known internationally for the Touchpoints theory of regression and growth in infants and young children, Brazelton is also credited for bringing the insights of child development into pediatrics, and for his powerful advocacy in Congress. In Learning to Listen, fans of Brazelton and professionals in his field can follow both the roots of a brilliant career and the evolution of child-rearing into the twenty-first century.




Polyglot: How I Learn Languages


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KAT LOMB (1909-2003) was one of the great polyglots of the 20th century. A translator and one of the first simultaneous interpreters in the world, Lomb worked in 16 languages for state and business concerns in her native Hungary. She achieved further fame by writing books on languages, interpreting, and polyglots. Polyglot: How I Learn Languages, first published in 1970, is a collection of anecdotes and reflections on language learning. Because Dr. Lomb learned her languages as an adult, after getting a PhD in chemistry, the methods she used will be of particular interest to adult learners who want to master a foreign language.




Blood Crazy


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It is a quiet, uneventful Saturday in Doncaster. Nick Aten, and his best friend Steve Price – troubled seventeen year olds – spend it as usual hanging around the sleepy town, eating fast food and planning their revenge on Tug Slatter, a local bully and their arch-enemy. But by Sunday, Tug Slatter becomes the last of their worries because somehow overnight civilization is in ruins. Adults have become murderously insane – literally. They're infected with an uncontrollable urge to kill the young. Including their own children. As Nick and Steve try to escape the deadly town covered with the mutilated bodies of kids, a group of blood-thirsty adults ambushes them. Just a day before they were caring parents and concerned teachers, today they are savages destroying the future generation. Will Nick and Steve manage to escape? Is their hope that outside the Doncaster borders the world is 'normal' just a childish dream? Blood Crazy, first published in 1995, is a gripping, apocalyptic horror from Simon Clark.




Listen, Read, & Learn Volume 3


Book Description

Listen, Read, and Learn Volume 3 for prekindergarten to kindergarten engages children with the following stories: -Cinderella -Peter Pan -The Ugly Duckling -The Three Billy Goats Gruff Each story features learning activities and an MP3 file to help children build reading comprehension and critical thinking skills. Classic stories with a modern twist—Listen, Read, and Learn Volume 3 appeals to today’s learners by providing a blended learning experience complete with an MP3 file for each story. Each of the four fairy tales concludes with learning activities to help children understand story characters, events, vocabulary words, letters, sounds, and more. The Listen, Read, and Learn series enhances learning with delightfully illustrated stories and audio files. These fun pages use fairy tale favorites to strengthen early reading and critical thinking skills for classroom success.




Listen, Read, & Learn Volume 1


Book Description

The Listen, Read, and Learn Volume 1 fairy tale book for prekindergarten and kindergarten features classic tales such as: -Mother Goose Rhymes -Sleeping Beauty -The Little Red Hen -The Three Little Pigs Each story includes activity pages and a free MP3 audio file so children can listen while they read along. Encourage a love of reading while building early learning skills with Listen, Read, and Learn Volume 1. Each of the four popular tales engages children with bold illustrations and an MP3 audio file download that they can use on any device, at home or on-the-go. Bonus activities follow each story to help your child understand story characters and events, learn new vocabulary words, practice letters and sounds, and more. Filled with enchanting stories and fairy tales, the Listen, Read, and Learn series combines imagination and education for fun-filled learning at home. By providing a combined audio and visual experience, this series helps children understand print concepts like turning pages from right to left and connecting the sounds of words with the printed page. These fun pages use favorite stories as a springboard for strengthening early reading and thinking skills for classroom success!




Jonny Lambert's Bear and Bird: Learn to Share


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Journey through the forest with Huxley and Bluebird, and introduce your toddlers to the idea of friendship and sharing with others. Meet Huxley, the lovable and rather hungry bear. It is beginning to snow, which means it is almost time to hibernate. So Huxley, Bluebird, and their friends must set out to collect food to get them through the Winter. But Huxley is really hungry, and wants all the food to himself. Is there enough food for everyone? Follow Huxley and Bluebird on their adventure through the freezing forest to collect food for hibernation. With stunning illustrations by renowned artist Jonny Lambert, and an enchanting story, this picture book is perfect for adults and toddlers to share together. Huxley and the Bluebird teaches little ones vital life lessons about friendship and sharing with others, and gently introduces them to the idea of hibernation as well. So come and join the search with this magical bedtime story.