The authors document how educators and parents can lead a new path to a place they call 'Readialand' - a literacy-rich world that marries reading and digital media to bring knowledge, skills, and critical thinking to all of our children. This approach is driven by the urgent need for low-income children and parents to have access to the same 21st-century literacy opportunities already at the fingertips of today's affluent families. With stories from...

"As the nation celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Apollo Moon landing on July 20, 2019, NASA has its sights set on traveling forward to the Moon--this time to stay! NASA's new Artemis mission will land the first American woman and the next American man on the surface of the Moon by 2024." -- from inside cover.

In the rugged landscape of early frontier Texas, fourteen-year-old Travis is faced with taking over his family's farm and making a painful, important decision.

"An introduction to coding for parents and kids. Includes 18 hands-on activities using ScratchJr, a programming language designed for young children (ages 5-7). Teaches computational thinking, literacy, and math skills through animated collages, interactive stories, and playable games"--

The standards-based lessons in this slim volume serve as an introduction to environmental science for young learners. Hop Into Action helps teach children about the joy of amphibians through investigations that involve scientific inquiry and knowledge building. Twenty hands-on learning lessons can be used individually or as a yearlong curriculum. Each lesson is accompanied by detailed objectives, materials lists, background information, step-by-step...

"Committed to nurturing a love of reading, this highly readable book explores a wide range of recommended titles that cover a spectrum of developmental stages. The 100 events outlined in this resource include a wealth of practical suggestions--reproducible activities, assessment profiles, and inventories for classroom use. Special attention is given to the world of leisure reading, where readers make choices based on their preferences and tastes as...