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Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons
Author: Phyllis / Bruner, Elaine Haddox
ISBN-10: 034612557X
ISBN-13: 9780346125575
Published: 1983
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
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* Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read?* Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading?* Are you worried that your child will become lost in overcrowded classrooms?* Did you know that early readers hold an advantage over their peers throughout school?* Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong?SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taughtby the DISTAR® method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adaptedfor parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read.Twenty minutes a day is all you need, and within 100 teaching days your child will be reading on a solid second-grade reading level. It's a sensible, easy-to-follow, and enjoyable way to help your child gain the essential skills of reading. Everything you need is here -- no paste, no scissors, no flash cards, no complicated directions -- just you and your child learning together. One hundred lessons, fully illustrated and color-coded for clarity, give your child the basic and more advanced skills needed to become a good reader.Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons will bring you and your child closer together, while giving your child the reading skills needed now, for a better chance at tomorrow.
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The Toddler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games and Activities to Keep Your 1 1/2- to 3-Year-Old Busy
Author: Trish Kuffner
ISBN-10: 0671317741
ISBN-13: 9780671317744
Published: 1999-11-01
Publisher: Meadowbrook
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The Toddler’s Busy Book is a must-read for anyone raising or teaching toddlers! This book contains over 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for kids ages 18 months to 3 years, using items found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to prevent boredom during the longest stretches of indoor weather, stimulate a child’s natural curiosity with entertaining math, language, and motor-skills activities, encourage a child’s physical, mental, and emotional growth, celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities, and keep toddlers occupied during long car trips or while running errands. The Toddler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight.
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The Everything Family Christmas Book: Stories, Songs, Recipes, Crafts, Traditions, and More (Everything (Reference))
Author: Yvonne Jeffrey
ISBN-10: 1598695614
ISBN-13: 9781598695618
Published: 2008-10-17
Publisher: Adams Media
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Book Description:
This holiday collection is a treasury of Christmas traditions, stories, songs, and recipes that promises to bring readers young and old together to celebrate the spirit of the season. Everyone will enjoy this delightful guide to all things Christmas, featuring: the perennial classic Christmas stories, poems, and carols; recipes for family gatherings, parties, and holiday gifts from the kitchen; ideas for thoughtful and creative handmade gifts; decorating ideas for any room; and holiday customs and traditions from around the world. As a gift or a book to be treasured, this book will help readers create new traditions that can be shared year after year.
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The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun, Revised Edition: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder
Author: Carol Kranowitz
ISBN-10: 0399532714
ISBN-13: 9780399532719
Published: 2006-08-01
Publisher: Perigee Trade
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The revised and updated edition of a groundbreaking special-needs activity guide This revised edition of the companion volume to The Out-of-Sync Child includes new activities that parents of kids with Sensory Processing Disorder can do at home with their child, along with updated information on which activities are most appropriate for children with coexisting conditions such as Asperger's, autism, and more.
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Fifteen Minutes Outside: 365 Ways to Get Out of the House and Connect with Your Kids
Author: Rebecca Cohen
ISBN-10: 1402254369
ISBN-13: 9781402254369
Published: 2011-03-01
Publisher: Sourcebooks
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What if you got outside every day, and what if you could get your kids to come along? It sounds modest, but the effects, as dynamic outdoor spokesperson Rebecca Cohen herself can testify, are profound. This inspiring collection of activities gives families an idea for every day of the year, requiring little planning, no expertise and relatively little resources (time, cash, or patience!), no matter where they live. Simple and inspiring, this book is bursting with hundreds of easy ways to get your family out into nature a little bit every day. (20101103)
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Preschooler's Busy Book: 365 Creative Games & Activities To Occupy 3-6 Year Olds
Author: Trish Kuffner
ISBN-10: 0671316338
ISBN-13: 9780671316334
Published: 1998-10-01
Publisher: Meadowbrook
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365 FUN, CREATIVE ACTIVITIES TO STIMULATE YOUR PRESCHOOLER EVERY DAY OF THE YEARThis book contains 365 activities (one for each day of the year) for three- to six-year-olds using things found around the home. It shows parents and day-care providers how to: Save money by making your own paints, playdough, craft clays, glue, paste, and other arts and crafts supplies. Prevent boredom during even the longest stretches of indoor weather with ideas for indoor play, kitchen activities, and arts and crafts projects. Stimulate a child's natural curiosity with fun reading, math, and science activities. Encourage a child's physical, mental, and emotional growth with ideas for music, dance, drama, and outdoor play. Celebrate holidays and other occasions with special projects and activities. Keep children occupied during long trips or cross-town errands.The Preschooler's Busy Book is written with warmth and sprinkled with humor and insight. It should be required reading for anyone raising or teaching preschool-age children.
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Baby Play (Gymboree)
Author: Wendy Masi Ph.D
ISBN-10: 0865734348
ISBN-13: 9780865734340
Published: 2001-04
Publisher: Creative Publishing International
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All new parents are eager to help their baby discover the world around them, and BABY PLAY was designed to help parents engage their infant in activities that will encourage developmental skills. From the first month home through the twelfth, BABY PLAY offers doctor-approved, age-appropriate activities that stimulate discovery, begin communication, and nurture parental bonding.Developed in close consultation with the play experts at Gymboree Play&Music, the book contains an introduction that explains the value of "play with a purpose," information on how babies learn, and tips outlining what a parent can do to help their little on get off to a good start.The book also includes a glossary of key terms in child development, beneficial to any new parent, as well as detailed information on how parents can identify development skills as they emerge in their baby. From stretching exercises to puppet games, BABY PLAY encourages learning during that first critical year of life.Look at what this book offers:Includes over 100 activities for babies 0-12 months.Organized by appropriateness for each month of life.Includes wide variety of play activities, from ball rolling to imitative play.Developed in consultation with the play experts at Gymboree.Contains a useful glossary of key terms in child development.
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Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children
Author: Thich Nhat Hanh
ISBN-10: 1935209809
ISBN-13: 9781935209805
Published: 2011-06-01
Publisher: Parallax Press
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Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children is the fruit of decades of development and innovation in the Plum Village community's collective practice with children. Based on Thich Nhat Hanh's thirty years of teaching mindfulness and compassion to parents, teachers, and children, the book and enclosed CD covers a wide range of contemplative and fun activities parents and educators can do with their children or students. They are designed to help relieve stress, increase concentration, nourish gratitude and confidence, deal with difficult emotions, touch our interconnection with nature, and improve communication.Planting Seeds offers insight, concrete activities, and curricula that parents and educators can apply in school settings, in their local communities or at home, in a way that is meaningful and inviting to children. The key practices presented include mindful breathing and walking, inviting the bell, pebble meditation, the Two Promises or ethical guidelines for children, children's versions of Touching the Earth and Deep Relaxation, eating meditation and dealing with conflict and strong emotions. Also included are the lyrics to the songs on the enclosed CD that summarize and reinforce the key teachings, as well as a chapter on dealing effectively with conflict in the classroom or difficult group.
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Geek Dad: Awesomely Geeky Projects and Activities for Dads and Kids to Share
Author: Ken Denmead
ISBN-10: 1592405525
ISBN-13: 9781592405527
Published: 2010-05-04
Publisher: Gotham
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The ultimate DIY project guide for techie dads raising kids in their own geeky image, in the spirit of The Dangerous Book for Boys Today's generation of dads grew up more tech-savvy than ever. Rather than joining the Little League team, many grew up playing computer games, Dungeons and Dragons, and watching Star Wars. Now with kids of their own, these digital-age dads are looking for fresh ways to share their love of science and technology, and help their kids develop a passion for learning and discovery. Enter supergeek, and father of two, Ken Denmead. An engineer and editor of the incredibly popular GeekDad blog on wired.com, Ken has created the ultimate, idea-packed guide guaranteed to help dads and kids alike enjoy the magic of playtime together and tap into the infinite possibility of their imagination. With illustrations throughout, this book offers projects for all ages to suit any timeframe or budget. With Denmead's expert guidance, you and your child can: •Fly a night-time kite ablaze with lights or launch a video camera with balloons •Construct the "Best Slip n' Slide Ever," a guaranteed thrill ride •Build a working lamp with LEGO bricks and CDs •Create a customized comic strip or your own board game •Make geeky crafts like cyborg jack-o'-lanterns or Ethernet cuff links Brimming with endlessly fun and futuristic tidbits on everything from gaming to gadgets, GeekDad helps every tech-savvy father unleash his inner kid-and bond with the next generation of brainiacs.
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Teach Me to Do It Myself: Montessori Activities for You and Your Child
Author: Maja Pitamic
ISBN-10: 0764127896
ISBN-13: 9780764127892
Published: 2004-08-01
Publisher: Barron's Educational Series
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Based on the key Montessori principle that children learn best through active experience, Teach Me to Do It Myself presents simple activities through which children explore and develop their skills. These skill areas include sensory perceptions, body coordination, language, understanding of numbers, and movement. This practical, color-illustrated parenting book is filled with activities and instructions for overseeing children as they carry out a variety of learning activities. Most activities will seem simple to parents, because once mastered, adults perform them automatically. However, toddlers experience a sense of accomplishment and self-worth when they learn to perform them independently. The many activities start with dressing and personal hygiene, then go on to include . . . Pouring activitiesThreading and sewing activities Peg activitiesCutting with scissorsSorting activities by touchA color matching gameMaking musical scales with bottles and waterUsing alphabet tiles to make wordsGrowing things in a window boxMaking finger puppetsActivities are described in detail and include checklists of needed items, as well as variations and related activities for children to try.
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