Share the wonder of the winter season with these recommended books for children ages 0-9. You’ll find books of fact and fiction as well as favorites both old and new.
Learn about the importance of voting in our democracy, and the history of voting rights in the U.S.. And meet some energetic kids (and a few animal characters) with big ideas who might even want to be President!
Reading expert Linda Farrell works with Reese to master the name of every letter. She helps Reese sing the alphabet song clearly and with no mistakes. She teaches him to look carefully at letters as he names them. Ms. Farrell also helps Reese identify every letter of the alphabet accurately, including differentiating between letters that look similar (in Reese’s case, ‘y’ and ‘v’). Learning the name of every letter is a critical pre-reading skill.
An informal assessment of letter/sound recognition, including what the assessment measures, when is should be assessed, examples of questions, and the age or grade at which the assessment should be mastered.
E.B. Lewis’s interests in fine arts, illustration, and art education led him to coin the term “artistrator” to describe his work. As a children’s illustrator, Lewis has contributed beautiful watercolors to The Other Side by Jacqueline Woodson, Fire on the Mountain by Jane Kurtz, Down the Road by Alice Schertle, and many other titles. Lewis’s illustrations, which have been described as “simply stunning” and “uniquely captivating” have earned him the Coretta Scott King Award and a Caldecott Honor.
