The Incredible Sight Word Workbook for Minecrafters


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The perfect educational workbook for fans of Minecraft! Make learning sight words fun with awesome activities and practice pages! This kid-friendly workbook features well-loved Minecrafting characters and concepts to reinforce the development of first and second grade reading skills and increase kids’ familiarity with over 100 high-frequency words. Sight words, or high-frequency words, are words that often appear in grade-level reading material but can’t always be sounded out using traditional spelling rules. With tracing, writing, and word-building activities to facilitate learning, kids will be able to recognize, spell, and pronounce more than 100 sight words as they build a strong foundation for reading fluency. Alex and Steve and beloved Minecraft mobs will guide kids through this kid-friendly workbook and encourage reading practice in even the most reluctant of students. Using the Fry word list as a basis, each page features one high-frequency sight word, colorful Minecraft art, and a fun puzzle or game to reward young learners. 100 high-frequency words to trace, write, and read Colorful Minecraft-themed art for extra fun Game or puzzle on every page rewards and engages young learners The Incredible Sight Word Workbook for Minecrafters helps parents position their kids for schoolyear success. Young gamers who are just learning the basics of reading or have started reading will enjoy diving into this educational adventure.




Dave's Down-to-Earth Rock Shop


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Josh is the best collector on the block. And now he has something new to collect - rocks! Soon Josh and his best friend, Amy, have so many rocks they need to organize their collection. But how? Young collectors will be fascinated by all there is to know about rocks and about classifying - sorting and organizing objects by attributes like color, shape, or size. Grab your rock hammer and join the fun with this entertaining story by Stuart J. Murphy and lively art by Cat Bowman Smith.




Handwriting for Minecrafters: Printing


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This kid-friendly workbook features well-loved video game characters and settings to encourage kids to practice forming lowercase and capital letters. Colorfully illustrated pages bring their most beloved video game to life and entice learners (even the most reluctant ones) to take part in an educational handwriting adventure. With a full page of practice for each uppercase and lowercase letter of the alphabet, plus extra pages to help them write kid-friendly Minecrafting words and sentences, they’ll find everything they need to develop their fine motor skills, their handwriting skills, and their confidence in the classroom. This book includes: Clear stroke formation guidelines to support learning Uppercase and lowercase letter practice with roomy practice space Minecrafting-themed word and sentence practice for added skill building Engaging full-color illustrations to make learning fun. Whether you’re preparing them for the upcoming school year or providing extra skill practice, Handwriting for Minecrafters: Printing is as fun as it is educational—and is just what your child needs to meet and exceed academic standards! This educational series is created especially for readers who love the fight of good versus evil, magical academies like Hogwarts in the Harry Potter saga, and games like Minecraft, Terraria, and Pokémon GO.




Actionable Gamification


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Learn all about implementing a good gamification design into your products, workplace, and lifestyle Key FeaturesExplore what makes a game fun and engagingGain insight into the Octalysis Framework and its applicationsDiscover the potential of the Core Drives of gamification through real-world scenariosBook Description Effective gamification is a combination of game design, game dynamics, user experience, and ROI-driving business implementations. This book explores the interplay between these disciplines and captures the core principles that contribute to a good gamification design. The book starts with an overview of the Octalysis Framework and the 8 Core Drives that can be used to build strategies around the various systems that make games engaging. As the book progresses, each chapter delves deep into a Core Drive, explaining its design and how it should be used. Finally, to apply all the concepts and techniques that you learn throughout, the book contains a brief showcase of using the Octalysis Framework to design a project experience from scratch. After reading this book, you'll have the knowledge and skills to enable the widespread adoption of good gamification and human-focused design in all types of industries. What you will learnDiscover ways to use gamification techniques in real-world situationsDesign fun, engaging, and rewarding experiences with OctalysisUnderstand what gamification means and how to categorize itLeverage the power of different Core Drives in your applicationsExplore how Left Brain and Right Brain Core Drives differ in motivation and design methodologiesExamine the fascinating intricacies of White Hat and Black Hat Core DrivesWho this book is for Anyone who wants to implement gamification principles and techniques into their products, workplace, and lifestyle will find this book useful.




The Manchurian Candidate


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The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time




Windows 10 For Dummies


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Illustrates the new features of Windows 10.




Well Fed, Flat Broke


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In this charming yet practical cookbook - based on her popular blog of the same name - Emily Wight offers great recipes, ideas and advice on how to prepare imaginative and delicious meals without having to spend a lot of money. Recipes vary from the simple (perfect scrambled eggs, rice and lentils) to the sublime (orecchiette with white beans and sausage; mustard fried chicken). With its down-to-earth charm and sage advice, Well Fed, Flat Broke will have you eating like a millionaire without having to spend like one.




Flow and the Foundations of Positive Psychology


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The second volume in the collected works of Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi covers about thirty years of Csikszentmihalyi‘s work on three main and interconnected areas of study: attention, flow and positive psychology. Describing attention as psychic energy and in the footsteps of William James, Csikszentmihalyi explores the allocation of attention, the when and where and the amount of attention humans pay to tasks and the role of attention in creating ‘experiences’, or ordered patterns of information. Taking into account information processing theories and attempts at quantifying people’s investment, the chapters deal with such topics as time budgets and the development and use of the Experience Sampling Method of collecting data on attention in everyday life. Following the chapters on attention and reflecting Csikszentmihalyi’s branching out into sociology and anthropology, there are chapters on the topic of adult play and leisure and connected to that, on flow, a concept formulated and developed by Csikszentmihalyi. Flow has become a popular concept in business and management around the world and research on the concept continues to flourish. Finally, this volume contains articles that stem from Csikszentmihalyi’s connection with Martin Seligman; they deal with concepts and theories, as well as with the development and short history, of the field and the “movement” of positive psychology.




How Do I Feel?


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An essential emotional literacy tool for children with 60+ definitions inside! Join Aroha and her friends as they share how different emotions feel in the body and find the words for how they truly feel! A useful resource for parents, carers and educators to help children recognise, label and understand their many emotions. Notable Book in the Storylines Children's Literature Trust of NZ Book Awards 2021 Finalist in the 2022 NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults (Elsie Locke Award for Non-Fiction) ‘This book is a much-needed tool for children and those caring for them. By showing that a wide range of emotions each have their own unique value and purposes, this book helps to both normalise and encourage understanding towards the big emotions and feelings that, although sometimes demonised, are experienced by each and every one of us at some point in our lives.’ — DANIELLE WHITBURN, Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand




Reading Success for Minecrafters: Grades 1-2


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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!