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Reading Detective (Beginning)

By: N/A

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Critical Thinking: January 2001

Seller ID: 104744

ISBN: 0894557696

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Grades 3-4: Beginning Standards-based critical thinking activities develop the analysis, synthesis, and vocabulary skills children need for exceptional reading comprehension.The activities are especially effective at helping children understand more challenging reading concepts such as drawing interferences, making conclusions, determining cause-and-effect, and using context clues to define vocabulary. Students read and analyze short literature passages and stories that include fiction and nonfiction genres. Then they answer multiple-choice and short-response questions, citing sentence evidenc...
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

By: Bogel, Anne

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Baker Books: September 2018

Seller ID: 323169

ISBN: 0801072921

Condition: New

For so many people, reading isn't just a hobby or a way to pass the time--it's a lifestyle. Our books shape us, define us, enchant us, and even sometimes infuriate us. Our books are a part of who we are as people, and we can't imagine life without them.

I'd Rather Be Reading is the perfect literary companion for everyone who feels that way. In this collection of charming and relatable reflections on the reading life, beloved blogger and author Anne Bogel leads readers to remember the book that first hooked them, the place where they first fell in love with reading, and all of the mo...
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I'd Rather Be Reading: The Delights and Dilemmas of the Reading Life

By: Bogel, Anne

Price: $8.97

Publisher: Baker Books: September 2018

Seller ID: 324431

ISBN: 0801072921

Condition: New

Drawn into the Heart of Reading Levels 2-8 Teacher's Guide

By: Carrie Austin

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Heart of Dakota Publishing: January 1998

Seller ID: 115545

ISBN: 0974769509

Condition: Used - Very Good

Book Girl: A Journey through the Treasures and Transforming Power of a Reading Life

By: Clarkson, Sarah

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Tyndale Momentum: September 2018

Seller ID: 323316

ISBN: 1496425804

Condition: New

When you hear a riveting story, does it thrill your heart and stir your soul? Do you hunger for truth and goodness? Do you secretly relate to Belle's delight in the library in Beauty and the Beast?

If so, you may be on your way to being a book girl.

Books were always Sarah Clarkson's delight. Raised in the company of the lively Anne of Green Gables, the brave Pevensie children of Narnia, and the wise Austen heroines, she discovered reading early on as a daily gift, a way of encountering the world in all its wonder. But what she came to realize as an adult was just how ...
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Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature (Turning Point Christian Worldview Series)

By: Gene Edward Veith, Jr.

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Crossway Books: September 1990

Seller ID: 102180

ISBN: 0891075828

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good--to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read--from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how the major genres of literature communicate. He explores ways comedy, tragedy, realism, and fantasy can portray the Christian worldview. These discussions lead to a host of related topics--the value of fairy tales for children, the tragic and the comic sense of life, the interplay between Greek and Bi...
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Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers

By: Layne, Steven

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Stenhouse Publishers: December 2009

Seller ID: 342204

ISBN: 1571103856

Condition: Used - Very Good

When teaching reading, American classrooms often focus exclusively on skills instruction. But how can you teach the "how" without the "why?" In his new book, Igniting a Passion for Reading, Steve Layne shows teachers how to develop readers who are not only motivated to read great books, but also love reading in its own right. Packed with practical ways to engage and inspire readers from kindergarten through high school, this book is a "must-have" on every teacher's professional book shelf.

Well-known for his children's books, young adult novels, and keynote speeches across the nation ...
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McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader (McGuffey Readers)

By: McGuffey, William

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Applewood Books: March 2010

Seller ID: 347488

ISBN: 1429041021

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The tried and true McGuffey's First Eclectic Reader develops basic reading comprehension skills for children as young as three all the way to adults learning to read. Using stories, word lists, phonics charts, and 19th-century illustrations, it is a timeless teaching tool. This is the revised 1879 edition. The McGuffey Readers are among the best known schoolbooks in the history of American education, having sold more than 120 million copies since the time of their first publication in 1836.
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Introduction to the Historical Books: Strategies for Reading

By: McKenzie, Steven L.

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Eerdmans: January 2010

Seller ID: 343029

ISBN: 0802828779

Condition: Used - Very Good

Steven McKenzie here surveys the historical books of the Old Testament -- Joshua through Ezra-Nehemiah -- for their historical context, contents, form, and themes, communicating them clearly and succinctly for an introductory audience. / By providing a better understanding of biblical history writing in its ancient context, McKenzie helps readers come to terms with tensions between the Bible's account and modern historical analyses. Rather than denying the results of historical research or dismissing its practitioners as wrongly motivated, he suggests that the source of the perceived discrepan...
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Close Reading with Paired Texts Level 4

By: Oczkus, Lori,Rasinski, Timothy

Price: $4.50

Publisher: Shell Education: June 2015

Seller ID: 339425

ISBN: 1425813607

Condition: Used - Very Good

How to Raise a Reader

By: Paul, Pamela,Russo, Maria

Price: $19.95

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company: September 2019

Seller ID: 338077

ISBN: 1523505303

Condition: New

Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? Or curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of the Sorcerer's Stone, or the fate of the "one ring to rule them all?" So now, as parents, how do you instill in your kids that timeless, time-stopping, and extremely valuable joy of reading?

Written by Pamela Paul, who oversees all book coverage at The New York Times, and Maria Russo, the children's book editor at the Times--and inspired by their 2018 article that went viral instantly, reaching hundreds of thousands of Times readers--Ho...
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The Rights of the Reader

By: Pennac, Daniel

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Candlewick: August 2015

Seller ID: 339927

ISBN: 0763677019

Condition: Used - Very Good

"Joyful ode to reading...quirky, playful sketches to complement the author's engaging prose. Passionate and witty." -- BOOKLIST
First published in 1992 and even more relevant now, Daniel Pennac's quirky ode to reading has sold more than a million copies in his native France. Drawing on his experiences as a child, a parent, and an inner-city teacher in Paris, the author reflects on the power of story and reminds us of our right to read anything, anywhere, anytime, so long as we are enjoying ourselves. In a new translation with a foreword and illustrations by Quentin Blake, here is a ...
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)

By: Prose, Francine

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Harper Perennial: April 2007

Seller ID: 332124

ISBN: 0060777052

Condition: Used - Very Good

Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.
In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov—and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of ...
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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them (P.S.)

By: Prose, Francine

Price: $15.99

Publisher: Harper Perennial: April 2007

Seller ID: 337787

ISBN: 0060777052

Condition: New

Long before there were creative-writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says Francine Prose.
In Reading Like a Writer, Prose invites you to sit by her side and take a guided tour of the tools and the tricks of the masters. She reads the work of the very best writers—Dostoyevsky, Flaubert, Kafka, Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Chekhov—and discovers why their work has endured. She takes pleasure in the long and magnificent sentences of Philip Roth and the breathtaking paragraphs of ...
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A Certain 'Je Ne Sais Quoi': The Origin of Foreign Words Used in English (Blackboard Books)

By: Rhodes, Chloe

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Reader's Digest: March 2010

Seller ID: 328497

ISBN: 1606520571

Condition: Used - Very Good

"English doesn't borrow from other languages. English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
-James D. Nicoll
Organized alphabetically for easy reference, A Certain "Je Ne Sais Quoi" is an accessible lexicon of foreign words and phrases used in English, containing everything from aficionado (Spanish) to zeitgeist (German). Inside you'll find translations, definitions, origins, and a descriptive timeline of each item's evolution. Entries include:

la carte: from the card or of the menu (Fre...
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Reading for the Common Good: How Books Help Our Churches and Neighborhoods Flourish

By: Smith

Price: $7.50

Publisher: IVP Books: July 2016

Seller ID: 330796

ISBN: 083084449X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

We have been created to live and work in community. But all too often we see ourselves primarily as individuals and run the risk of working at cross-purposes with the organizations we serve. Living faithfully in a neighborhood involves two interwoven threads: learning and action. In this book C. Christopher Smith, coauthor ofSlow Church, looks at the local church as an organization in which both learning and action lie at the heart of its identity. He explores the practice of reading and, in his words, "how we can read together in ways that drive us deeper into action." Smith continue...
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On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books

By: Swallow Prior, Karen

Price: $19.99

Publisher: Brazos Press: September 2018

Seller ID: 323163

ISBN: 1587433966

Condition: New

★ Publishers Weekly starred review
A Best Book of 2018 in Religion, Publishers Weekly
Reading great literature well has the power to cultivate virtue. Great literature increases knowledge of and desire for the good life by showing readers what virtue looks like and where vice leads. It is not just what one reads but how one reads that cultivates virtue. Reading good literature well requires one to practice numerous virtues, such as patience, diligence, and prudence. And learning to judge wisely a character in a book, in turn,...
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