Tagged: 4 stars, Book Reviews, Books, Middle Grade, Reviews, Young Adult. Leave a comment It’s been a few years since I’ve read a book that could very easily qualify for the prestigious Caldecott Award, but Cary Fagan’s Hans Christian Andersen Lives Next Door is just such a book....
There’s really not a sense of impending doom for the reader, which is odd, since you die a lot. The older Choose-Your-Own-Adventure books really brought the reader into the story. This is a little more passive, but it’s also a heck of a lot more fun. If you are going to cons...
aloud adv,“大声地;出声地”,多指使别人听到的意味,常与read连用。 loud adj、adv。作adv时,“高声地;响亮地;大声地”,常放于speak、talk、laugh、sing之后,多用比较级。 loudly “高声地”,有时与loud通用。但含有“喧闹”的意味。在用与比较级或最高级时,通常用loud而不用loudly。 Eg. Reading ...
Today, we have some books for you. Come and join the fun! The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1953. A year later, Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature. The Old Man and the Sea is generally considered by many to be his greatest achievement. The ...
The Books on the Shelf - A Math Read Aloud StoryIntroduce math words and idea in story form.Ideal for 2-, 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds, prereaders. Hands to Head, Head to Hands, Pre-K to 2, NCTM, Baltimore, MD10/04 nctmd"Playfully Use Hands, Voices, Feet, and Brains to Learn ...
Her bedside table was covered in books. I asked if she likes to read (an obvious question I know). Her response, having never met me before, was, “Yes, and I have a book for you. It’s called “Hope Beyond Reason.” She went on to explain that it was a book about a pastor ...
Why are machines so important and necessary for us? Because they can help us do things better and faster. A washing machine helps us to wash clothes quickly. A printing machine helps us to print a lot of books, newspapers, magazines and many other things quickly. Bikes, cars, t...
When I was in Grade One we had a new subject —— English. It was fresh for me . I was interested in it so I worked hard at it. Soon we had an English exam and I got a very good mark. How happy I was! After that I learned English harder and harder. Our English teacher ...
As it got closer to noon, I knew it was time for my readings. I pulled Julia aside and read aloud a chapter from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens and opened up one of our logic books. I wrote about our study of logic in my super-longpost about math. Today we’d be starting a new...
For the next eight years, we were a trio, and life was good and full of new adventures. We traveled, we played, and we laughed. We read lots of books, played hide and seek, and dressed up like pirates. We celebrated so many of Levi’s firsts—his first laugh, his first tooth, ...