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Heron Spelling is a comprehensive spelling program designed to work both for student who struggle with spelling and for those who pick it up quickly. Each level is accompanied by a learning guide and workbook. With this text, along with the four accompanying learning guides and workbooks, the student learns about vowel and consonant digraphs, suffixes and prefixes, silent letters, hard and soft g and c and compound words.

This is a glossary of the "hard-to-find" words from the required books on the 3B-1 and 3B-2 reading guides. Words explained (simply and clearly) are ones students will not find in a dictionary at their level.

This book is supplemental to Heron Spelling, used to fill in a student's phonics basics when needed. There are five accompanying learning guides, thus comprising five short courses. This is not a spelling program for lower grades, but for a student who needs some repair work. Diagnostic tests in the Heron Spelling Teacher Manual can be used to establish the need for these courses, which would normally be done before

One of the most important skills a student can learn is how to do research. This book helps a student understand what research is, the importance of accurate observation, first-, second- and third-hand data, fact versus opinion, and the use of references, including the internet.

This is a glossary of "hard-to-find" words from required books on the 3A-1 and 3A-2 reading guides, words students will not find in a dictionary for their level. All explanations are simply and clearly written for easy absorption by the student.

Heron Spelling is a comprehensive spelling program designed to work both for student who struggle with spelling and for those who pick it up quickly. Each level is accompanied by a learning guide and workbook. With this text, along with the four accompanying learning guides and workbooks, the student learns about vowel and consonant digraphs, suffixes and prefixes, silent letters, hard and soft g and c and compound words.

This manual explains the structure and fundamentals of the program and provides a diagnostic testing procedure to determine exactly what the student needs to study.

Heron Spelling is a comprehensive spelling program designed to work both for students who struggle with spelling and for those who pick it up quickly. Each level is accompanied by learning guides and workbooks full of fun activities and lots of opportunity for practice.Level 1 generally covers 4th grade spelling. Using its four learning guides and workbooks, the student learns about vowel sounds, vowel digraphs, word endings, plurals, possessives, contractions and compound words.The Heron Spelling Starter Package is highly recommended as a prerequisite.

This is a glossary of "hard-to-find" words from the required books on the 2 Level 3C Reading Guides. "Hard-to-find" means a Form 3 student would not find the word in a dictionary at his reading level. It is for use with the 3C-1 and 3C-2 Reading Guides. Glossary has roughly 900 entry words, and explanations are simple, informative and concise. Clear, useful maps are provided for several of the books.

Written in language the student can understand, this book explains what having a healthy body means, why it's important, and how to achieve it. The information on nutrients in food is presented at a very basic level.

The Young Scientist - An Introduction to Observation and Discovery is a lively, engaging exploration of what science is, and what it means to be a scientist.Told through stories about the methods and accomplishments of a number of past and present-day scientists, it is all about the nature of scientific investigation and how to do it.Starting with the importance of curiosity, the book highlights the roles of observation, research, hypothesis, experimentation, the scientific method, and the sharing of knowledge. Sections are accompanied by hands-on activities that provide opportunities to be a scientist.This beautifully illustrated book with its clear, simple text and interesting activities, encourages observation skills, creative thinking, experimentation, discovery and independence of thought--all characteristics of successful scientists.

Our Amazing Planet: Introduction to Geography for Young Scientists begins with a brief explanation of geography as a science. Its clear, simple text then launches into a study of the earth from the inside out. It covers the layers of the earth from its core to its crust, exploring its land and water features, what makes the seasons, its three main climate zones and seven major biomes. The book's vibrant illustrations, which include maps of climate zones and biomes, add to the clarity of the text. Each chapter of the book ends with a summating hands-on activity.

This is a book about maps and globes, how they work, and how to use them to find places on the earth, both locally and globally. The amply-illustrated text introduces students to map scales, symbols, directions and grids and provides activities for building familiarity by making and using maps to find their way. It explains how to use features like hemisphere, latitude, longitude and coordinates to find places on a globe and provides activities for doing so.

Beginning with atoms and electrons, and positive and negative charges, this amply-illustrated book explains, simply and clearly, what electricity is and how it is generated and distributed through the power grid to businesses and homes. It covers circuits, circuits boxes, short circuits, switches and plugs as used in homes, and touches on alternate sources of electricity such as hydroelectric, wind and solar. A number of interesting experiments and projects are included in the book.

This book gives young scientists all they need to know to begin using microscopes, discovering the unseen world all around them.Along with simple but informative explanations of how to use a microscope and how to prepare slides, this book is packed with activities that get students observing the microscopic world.With the accompanying learning guide, a student is guided in using an elementary-level microscope to look at things such as a talcum powder, table salt, sugar, parts of insects and pond water.

Do you know which foods give your body energy? Build bones? Build muscle? Help with digestion? How about what foods might not be the best for your body? This simple book answers these questions with basic information on nutrition, what foods provide what nutrients, and what effects these can have on a growing body. The book takes care to make it clear that not all nutritionists agree, and there is much to learn on this interesting topic. The accompanying learning guide includes activities such as keeping a food diary, researching various current diet plans, interviewing parents for their opinions about diet, going to a grocery store to read ingredient labels of various foods, and creating and following a personal menu plan.

This book covers the basic skills involved in writing general essays in a simple and friendly way. Topics include the importance of interest and having a message, the parts of an essay, supporting details, outlines, revising and more.The accompanying learning guide takes students through the book while supplying the opportunity to practice what they are learning. This course assumes a student has basic knowledge of sentences and paragraphs, as provided in the Writing Paragraphs or course.

This glossary of roughly 180 terms includes art terms and translations of many Italian words and phrases used in The Agony and the Ecstasy by Irving Stone. A list of characters both in order of appearance, and alphabetical by common name, is provided to assist in keeping track of the many people Michelangelo encountered in his long life.

Want to become a first-class authority on grammar?Probably not.How about a specialist in punctuation rules?Not likely.What most of us want is to be able to write well, to communicate effectively in writing. What we need is a handy reference that will help us know whether we need a comma here or a semi-colon there. Punctuation is simply the use of symbols to control the flow of writing and ensure it's clear. Grammar is simply how we put words together so our writing makes sense. Getting Writing Right was created as a simple, go-to reference on these subjects-to help you become a better writer by providing a quick reference for use when writing. Read it. Use it. And get your writing right!Its seven accompanying learning guides help students progress through the book providing opportunities for lots of practice as they hone their skills.