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Let's take a spin in the fascinating world of cars! In this engaging nonfiction title, readers learn about cars of all kinds--from the Model T roadster to electronic cars--through automobile history, the innovative way automobiles changed the way people travel, and the parts cars need in order to work properly to ensure automobile safety and keep pollution down. With detailed images and diagrams, informational text, and compelling facts, readers will...
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Climb aboard for a journey into the world of trains! In this fascinating nonfiction title, readers learn about the history of trains, the different uses for them, and the different types and parts including freight cars, box cars, passenger cars, and the caboose. With detailed photos, informative text, and intriguing facts, this book will have readers delighted from cover to cover!
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Nature makes its mark with sights such as the Grand Canyon and the Great Barrier Reef. But other landmarks are built by people. Add and subtract your way around the world as you discover the stories behind some breathtaking buildings and massive monuments. This nonfiction math reader builds literacy skills and math content knowledge, combining informational text, problem-solving, and real-world connections to help students explore math in a meaningful...
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In this exciting and engaging nonfiction book, readers learn about the Wright Brothers, the history of aviation, how air travel has changed the way people work and live, and the important parts that make the plane fly! Using informational text, vibrant photos, an interesting timeline, and intriguing facts, this book will have readers wanting to learn everything they can about airplanes!
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California is a big state with an even bigger story. It grew leaps and bounds between the gold rush and 1900. People from across America and around the world moved there because it was full of opportunity. Today it's still a place where people from different backgrounds come to live their dreams. This primary source text builds students' reading skills and social studies content knowledge. The intriguing primary source maps, letters, documents, and...
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Find out what sets the human life cycle apart from other living things in this fascinating, informative nonfiction reader. With intriguing facts, informational text, and vibrant photographs, children will be introduced to the biological phases of our life cycle--from infancy to adulthood.
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Are you ready to eat, drink, and be merry? Mardi Gras is a huge party celebrated all over the world. Let the good times roll on a trip to New Orleans and along the way, roll out your subtraction strategies as you learn about this fabulous festival! This math reader builds literacy skills and math content knowledge, combining problem solving and real-world connections to help students explore math in a meaningful way. The Let's Explore Math sidebars...
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Take a trip to New Orleans with a young girl and her family as they attend one of the world's biggest parties: Mardi Gras! Learn all about the history of this fascinating festival as you practice subtraction strategies. This Spanish math book combines math and literacy skills, and uses real-life examples of problem solving to teach subject area content. The full-color images, engaging sidebars, practice problems, and math diagrams make learning subtraction...
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Teach students the importance of conserving Earth's natural resources. Students will learn about wind power, solar power, recycling, renewable and non-renewable resources, and more! Colorful images, supporting text, a glossary, table of contents, and index all work together to help readers better understand the content and be fully engaged from cover to cover. This informative, colorful book uses primary sources to captivate readers as they learn...
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Bring Florida history to life with the Florida's American Indians through History. This fascinating e-Book features primary source documents and images. Build literacy and subject content knowledge with this high-interest e-Book that explores history, geography, and other strands of social studies. This colorful, vibrant informational e-Book contains text features, such as sidebars, headings, glossary, and index. Aligned to Florida state standards...
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¿Cómo involucras realmente a los estudiantes en el aprendizaje de la historia? Cuando los estudiantes establecen conexiones personales con la asignatura, están mucho más motivados para aprender. Este libro en español proporciona relatos de la historia de primera mano que brindan una visión personal de los eventos históricos. Los estudiantes aprenderán cómo era la vida de las personas que viven en las Colonias del Sur. Con un diseño visualmente...
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How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they're much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. Students will learn about the events that lead to the American Revolution. With a visually appealing layout, this ESL book features captivating text, fun facts, sidebars, and time lines that help...
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Students will explore the rising tensions between the colonies and Great Britain with the Reasons for a Revolution e-Book. This informational text looks at the ways England tried to control the colonists, including imposing taxes and sending British troops (Sugar Act, Stamp Act, Quartering Act, and Townshend Acts) and how the colonies pushed back (Boston Massacre, Boston Tea Party), and the "brewing" revolution. This nonfiction book features primary...
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How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they're much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. Students will learn about the culture, history, and distinctive features of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Pawnee, Osage, Omaha, and Crow tribes. With a visually appealing layout, this book features...
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How do you truly engage students in learning history? When students make personal connections to the subject, they're much more motivated to learn. This Spanish book provides firsthand accounts of history that give personal insights into historical events. Students will learn about the culture, history, and distinctive features of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Pawnee, Osage, Omaha, and Crow tribes. With a visually appealing layout, this book features...
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Highlight some of the fascinating aspects of life on the Plains with the American Indians of the Plains: Surviving the Great Expanse e-Book. Students will explore different facets of Plains culture, including the importance of buffalo in everyday life – as their source of food, clothing, homes, weapons, and many other things. This informational text takes a look at some of the distinctive features of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Comanche, Pawnee, Osage,...
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