literacy

For years Joey was a war horse, pulling ambulance carts and artillery through the battlefields of World War I. Finally he returned to Albert and the farm. Now, decades later, Albert's son loves to tell his own grandson stories about the remarkable horse, including its feats in the war and of the time the family risked everything betting that Joey could win a daring race.

Discusses the ways young children learn to read and write, exploring such topics as literacy awareness, concepts about print in English and other languages, fostering independence in early writing, introducing storybooks, and accommodating diversity.

Presents each letter of the alphabet as a mini-unit designed to give children practice with fundamental language, math, science, social studies, writing, and thinking skills.

With the help of two animal fishermen, a young winged lion learns to read, to love books, and to fly properly.

This book discusses illiteracy and the problems it causes, as well as ways of eliminating it in our society.

Discusses the problems facing public schools in the United States including case studies of students, a history of educational theory, and a survey of proposed solutions, new goals, and differing philosophies.

A wolf learns to read in order to impress a group of farmyard animals he has met.

Zulaikha, a thirteen-year-old girl in Afghanistan, faces a series of frightening but exhilarating changes in her life as she defies her father and secretly meets with an old woman who teaches her to read, her older sister gets married, and American troops offer her surgery to fix her disfiguring cleft lip.

The residents of Culpepper, despite their grand aspirations, have made little progress toward achieving their goals, but unexpected events and surprises put the ambitions of the residents of Culpepper to the test.