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Learn about the purposes for writing, brainstorm with eight different prewriting exercises, and put it all into practice with hilarious writing prompts. Finally, a prompt journal that will take you through the whole writing process!From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a story and writing prompt journal that will teach you how to write and have fun doing it!

Learn about the purposes for writing, brainstorm with eight different prewriting exercises, and put it all into practice with hilarious writing prompts. Finally, a prompt journal that will take you through the whole writing process!From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a story and writing prompt journal that will teach you how to write and have fun doing it!

Innovative and engaging Grammaropolis content is available in print for the first time. The award-winning mobile apps have been downloaded over 2M times, and the web-based site license is currently used in almost 10,000 schools nationwide.  Promotion available on YouTube channel with over 17,500 channel subscribers and over 6,500,000 views. Grammaropolis addresses common core and other state standards for grades K-12.

Innovative and engaging Grammaropolis content is available in print for the first time. The award-winning mobile apps have been downloaded over 2M times, and the web-based site license is currently used in almost 10,000 schools nationwide.  Promotion available on YouTube channel with over 17,500 channel subscribers and over 6,500,000 views. Grammaropolis addresses common core and other state standards for grades K-12.

Get to know the eight parts of speech with character-based instruction, engaging practice worksheets, dynamic writing prompts and exercises, and quizzes to check comprehension. Based on the revolutionary Grammaropolis approach, this skill-building workbook for third grade makes learning grammar fun!In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. Grammaropolis personifies the parts of speech based on the roles they play in the sentence, increasing both engagement and retention. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, appealing to different learning styles and encouraging students to make a deeper connection with the eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections.Aligned to Common Core and state standards.

Get to know the eight parts of speech with character-based instruction, engaging practice worksheets, dynamic writing prompts and exercises, and quizzes to check comprehension. Based on the revolutionary Grammaropolis approach, this skill-building workbook for second grade makes learning grammar fun!In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. Grammaropolis personifies the parts of speech based on the roles they play in the sentence, increasing both engagement and retention. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, appealing to different learning styles and encouraging students to make a deeper connection with the eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections.Aligned to Common Core and state standards.

Nelson the Noun is the resident noun expert in Grammaropolis. Visit the Noun Office and learn from him! It's book one of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence. Nelson takes a break from his stressful day job, leaving the Noun Office in the hands of Roger the pronoun. After discovering that vacation isn't what he'd hoped it would be, Nelson returns just in time to fix the confusion Roger has caused in his absence. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and usage examples of common and proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns, collective nouns, and compound nouns. In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. The Meet the Parts of Speech series uses the mechanics of character and story (plot, motivation, setting, etc.) to breathe life into what has traditionally been unengaging subject matter. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, which appeals to different learning styles, increases both engagement and retention, and encourages students to make a deeper connection with the parts of speech and punctuation marks.

La historia de cuatro niños migrantes no acompañados que se unen a lo largo del arduo viaje hacia el norte a través de México hasta la frontera de los Estados Unidos, Una jornada hacia la esperanza es una oda al poder de la esperanza y la conexión ante la incertidumbre y el miedo.Cada año, aproximadamente 50,000 menores no acompañados llegan a la frontera entre los Estados Unidos y México para presentarse para asilo o visas relacionadas. La mayoría de estos niños huyen de la violencia sistémica del ¿Triángulo del Norte¿ de Centroamérica: Honduras, El Salvador y Guatemala. Una jornada hacia la esperanza cuenta la historia de Rodrigo, un niño de 14 años que escapa de la violencia hondureña; Alessandra, una guatemalteca de 10 años cuyo primer idioma es el Q¿eqchi ¿; y los hermanos salvadoreños Laura y Nando. Aunque sus razones por hacer el viaje son diferentes y la jornada hacia el norte es peligroso, los cuatro niños se unen y se fortalecen mientras se comparten los sueños de su pasado y las esperanzas de su futuro.Escrito en colaboración con el Proyecto Global sobre el Hambre y la Migración en la Colaboración de Innovación Social de la Universidad de Baylor, Una jornada hacia la esperanza presenta cuatro páginas de información adicional y recursos para padres, maestros de escuela, bibliotecarios y otros.This is the Spanish Language Edition of A Journey Toward Hope. Four unaccompanied migrant children come together along the arduous journey north through Mexico to the United States border in this ode to the power of hope and connection even in the face of uncertainty and fear.

? Christopher Myers is the recipient of a Caldecott Honor, three Coretta Scott King Awards, and over a dozen starred reviews from the major trade publications.?This book is being published to coincide with the largest Matisse exhibition in history, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in May 2020.?Works by Matisse figure prominently in the holdings of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York The Museum of Fine Arts and the Harvard Art Museums in Boston/Cambridge The Art Institute of ChicagoThe National Gallery of Art and The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C. The Getty Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los AngelesSeattle Museum of ArtPortland Museum of Art, Portland, MEPortland Art Museum, Portland, ORPhiladelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation in PhiladelphiaArt Galleries of Ontario in TorontoHigh Museum in AtlantaDenver Museum of ArtBaltimore Museum of ArtSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtCantor Arts Center, Stanford UniversityAnd over 250 other museum and university museum collections across the United States

Keila Merino is a two-time New York Road Runners Ultramarathoner of the Year, first-place finisher (men and women) in the inaugural The Greater New York 100 Mile Race in 2012, and third-place finisher in ultra running's most prestigious race, the Leadville 100. New York Road Runners, the organization behind the New york City Marathon and more than sixty other races around New York, is a huge supporter of Keila and will be providing marketing and publicity support for the book, including feature articles in its newsletter which reaches more than two million people worldwide. Keila has supporters in running organizations throughout the country, all of which has robust children's running programs. Keila will also receive support from the products she endorses, including Altra Running. - According to Runners World magazine, over 11 million youth participated in running and jogging in 2017, and over 2 million kids ran in sanctioned road races in the United States alone. According to Runningusa.org, over 60 million adults participated in running and jogging in 2018 and over 18.1 million ran an official road race. There are over 50,000 sanctioned road races in the U.S. every year, nearly all of which have a kids' race component. Nearly one-third of American children are considered obese. Multiple studies have shown that running and physical activity not only reduce obesity levels but also a wide variety of behavioral problems in children. See https://www.cbsnews.com/news/exercise-an-antidote-for-behavioral-issues-in-children/

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary "Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century," comes a vocabulary journal that will actually make you want to write! And not only will you learn 84 funky, fantastic, and fun-to-say words, you'll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! Don't be a vocabulary milquetoast! Feel lachrymose no more as you wow the world with your mastery of the funkiest big-brained words the English language has to offer. These words aren't for the hebetudinous, and with all the fun you'll have learning them, your knowledge will not be fugacious.From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary "Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century," comes a vocabulary journal that will actually make you want to write! And not only will you learn 84 funky, fantastic, and fun-to-say words, you'll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Jake the Adjective is your guide to all that is wonderful, interesting, and lovely about adjectives. It's book three of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence. When Jake's nemesis pulls a prank and turns Grammaropolis into a grey, misshapen, tasteless town, Jake is forced to run around restoring everything-the colors, shapes, sizes, tastes, and more-to the way it was all meant to be. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples of adjectives modifying nouns and pronouns along with comparative and superlative adjectives. In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. The Meet the Parts of Speech series uses the mechanics of character and story (plot, motivation, setting, etc.) to breathe life into what has traditionally been unengaging subject matter. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, which appeals to different learning styles, increases both engagement and retention, and encourages students to make a deeper connection with the parts of speech and punctuation marks.

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! Are you disappointed by your current vocabulary lessons? Does your writing not capture your true ability? Well, yoüre in luck because the Mayor is here with a workbook that won¿t make writing feel like such an ordeal.From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a vocabulary workbook that will actually make you want to write! Not only will you learn 60 of the most useful words on the planet, yoüll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Innovative and engaging Grammaropolis content is available in print for the first time. The award-winning mobile apps have been downloaded over 2M times, and the web-based site license is currently used in almost 10,000 schools nationwide.  Promotion available on YouTube channel with over 17,500 channel subscribers and over 6,500,000 views. Grammaropolis addresses Common Core and other state standards. (Please see link to K-6 standards correlation document.)

Learn about the purposes for writing, brainstorm with eight different prewriting exercises, and put it all into practice with hilarious writing prompts. Finally, a prompt journal that will take you through the whole writing process!From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a story and writing prompt journal that will teach you how to write and have fun doing it!

Benny may be extremely bossy, but if you listen to him carefully, you'll quickly learn a lot about adverbs. It's book four of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence. When his prized rock collection is stolen from the bank, Benny opens an investigation into how and when the theft took place and where the thief might have gone! Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples for adverbs modifying verbs, adjectives, and other adverbs; telling how, when, where, or to what extent; comparative and superlative adverbs, and adverb clauses. In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. The Meet the Parts of Speech series uses the mechanics of character and story (plot, motivation, setting, etc.) to breathe life into what has traditionally been unengaging subject matter. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, which appeals to different learning styles, increases both engagement and retention, and encourages students to make a deeper connection with the parts of speech and punctuation marks.

Innovative and engaging Grammaropolis content is available in print for the first time. The award-winning mobile apps have been downloaded over 2M times, and the web-based site license is currently used in almost 10,000 schools nationwide. Promotion available on YouTube channel with over 17,500 channel subscribers and over 6,500,000 views. Grammaropolis addresses Common Core and other state standards. (Please see link to K-6 standards correlation document.)

Learn about the purposes for writing, brainstorm with eight different prewriting exercises, and put it all into practice with hilarious writing prompts. Finally, a prompt journal that will take you through the whole writing process!From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a story and writing prompt journal that will teach you how to write and have fun doing it!

Vinny the Action Verb & Lucy the Linking Verb may disagree on some things, but they both love teaching about verbs. It's book two of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence. Vinny and Lucy approach life differently. He's all action, while she's content to sit back and be. With their friend Jake the adjective in trouble, however, the two verbs must put aside their differences and work together to save the day. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and usage examples of transitive action verbs, intransitive action verbs, and linking verbs. In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. The Meet the Parts of Speech series uses the mechanics of character and story (plot, motivation, setting, etc.) to breathe life into what has traditionally been unengaging subject matter. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, which appeals to different learning styles, increases both engagement and retention, and encourages students to make a deeper connection with the parts of speech and punctuation marks.

Izzy the Interjection makes learning about interjections fun. Yay! It's book eight of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence. No matter whether the emotion is strong or mild, positive, negative, or somewhere in between, Izzy lives to express it. Loneliness can be a problem sometimes because she's not grammatically connected to the other words in the sentence, but when the time comes, she leaps at the chance to express her strongest emotion yet. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples of how interjections express mild and strong emotion. In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. The Meet the Parts of Speech series uses the mechanics of character and story (plot, motivation, setting, etc.) to breathe life into what has traditionally been unengaging subject matter. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, which appeals to different learning styles, increases both engagement and retention, and encourages students to make a deeper connection with the parts of speech and punctuation marks.

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! Do you feel tentative when using new words? Is every writing assignment just one continuous nightmare? Well, yoüre in luck because the Mayor¿s unique collection of wonderful words will add a lofty new dimension to your vocabulary.From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a vocabulary workbook that will actually make you want to write! Not only will you learn 60 of the most useful words on the planet, yoüll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary "Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century," comes a vocabulary journal that will actually make you want to write! And not only will you learn 84 funky, fantastic, and fun-to-say words, you'll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! Are you looking for an extraordinary vocabulary-building experience? Is distress your usual response to writing assignments? Well, yoüre in luck because the Mayor¿s wonderful words and exercises will soon demonstrate that this isn¿t your typical workbook.From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a vocabulary workbook that will actually make you want to write! Not only will you learn 60 of the most useful words on the planet, yoüll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Li'l Pete the Preposition will lead you down the path toward preposition mastery. It's book seven of the Meet the Parts of Speech series, in which the eight parts of speech are personified based on the roles they play in the sentence. When launching his model rocket in the park, Li'l Pete gets excited and forgets to add objects to his prepositional phrases. Without objects, the prepositions become adverbs, and chaos ensues as the rockets fly up, by, and around with no direction at all. Clear and informative back matter includes textbook-style definitions and examples of prepositions, compound prepositions, and prepositional phrases. In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. The Meet the Parts of Speech series uses the mechanics of character and story (plot, motivation, setting, etc.) to breathe life into what has traditionally been unengaging subject matter. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, which appeals to different learning styles, increases both engagement and retention, and encourages students to make a deeper connection with the parts of speech and punctuation marks.

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! Do vocabulary exercises leave you despondent? Does having to write send you into spontaneous tirades of frustration? Well, yoüre in luck because the Mayor is here with a refreshing alternative to your current word-learning procedure.From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a vocabulary workbook that will actually make you want to write! Not only will you learn 60 of the most useful words on the planet, yoüll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! Do unfamiliar vocabulary words make you anxious? Are you dissatisfied with your current writing ability? Well, yoüre in luck because the Mayor is here with a variety of wonderful words that will surely meet your approval.From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a vocabulary workbook that will actually make you want to write! Not only will you learn 60 of the most useful words on the planet, yoüll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Featuring vocabulary in context, definitions and pronunciation, synonym and antonym activities, sentence-writing exercises, hilarious story prompts, and more! Does new vocabulary antagonize and bewilder you? Does every writing assignment feel like too formidable a challenge? Well, yoüre in luck because the Mayor is here as your liaison to a vocabulary experience that¿s sure to leave you feeling more exuberant than ever.From Grammaropolis, the revolutionary ¿Schoolhouse Rock! for the 21st Century,¿ comes a vocabulary workbook that will actually make you want to write! Not only will you learn 60 of the most useful words on the planet, yoüll also have the chance to put those words in action as you write original stories of your very own!

Learn how a sentence is put together with character-based instruction, engaging practice worksheets, dynamic writing prompts and exercises, and quizzes to check comprehension. Based on the revolutionary Grammaropolis approach, this skill-building workbook makes learning grammar fun!The Sentence Factory is hiring! Now that you know the parts of speech and punctuation, we need you to help us build our town's #1 export: grammatically correct sentences. Let the Mayor take you on a tour of the factory, where you'll learn about subjects and predicates, phrases and clauses, types of sentences, direct and indirect objects, subject and object complements, and more!The ultimate goal of learning grammar isn't to do well on worksheets and quizzes, though, which is why we've included sentence and paragraph writing exercises to put every grammatical concept into practice.Aligned to Common Core and state standards.

Get to know the eight parts of speech with character-based instruction, engaging practice worksheets, dynamic writing prompts and exercises, and quizzes to check comprehension. Based on the revolutionary Grammaropolis approach, this skill-building workbook for fourth grade makes learning grammar fun!In Grammaropolis, adverbs don't just modify verbs; adverbs are bossy. They tell the verbs where to go, when to leave, and how to get there. A pronoun doesn't just replace a noun; Roger the pronoun is a shady character who's always trying to trick Nelson the noun into giving up his spot. Grammaropolis personifies the parts of speech based on the roles they play in the sentence, increasing both engagement and retention. Our story-based approach combines traditional instruction with original narrative content, appealing to different learning styles and encouraging students to make a deeper connection with the eight parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections.Aligned to Common Core and state standards.