Increases reading skills and prepares students to take Language Arts examinations.

"Learn all about the sport of Horesback Riding! Each section encourages critical thinking and includes embedded comprehension questions to get kids making connections with the images and written information." -- Back cover.

Where do writers learn their best moves? They use a technique that Roy Peter Clark calls X-ray reading, a form of reading that lets you penetrate beyond the surface of a text to see how meaning is actually being made. In THE ART OF X-RAY READING, Clark invites you to don your X-ray reading glasses and join him on a guided tour through some of the most exquisite and masterful literary works of all time, fromThe Great Gatsby to Lolita to The Bluest...

Slow Reading in a Hurried Age is a practical guide for anyone who yearns for a more meaningful and satisfying reading experience, and who wants to sharpen reading skills and improve concentration. The author demonstrates exactly how the tried-and-true methods of slow reading can provide a more immersive, fulfilling experience. He begins with fourteen preliminary rules for slow reading and shows us how to apply them. The rules are followed by excursions...

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress -- ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have found love, some are looking for love. O. Henry's famous short stories -- sensitive, funny, sympathetic -- give us vivid pictures of the everyday lives...

A bold-spirited sheepdog is stolen from his comfortable home and thrust into the rugged, frozen terrain of the Alaskan Klondike. There he is made a sled dog and battles to become his team's leader amid the bitter cold and the savage lawlessness of man and beast.

In verse, Sam-I-am tells of the virtues of green eggs and ham.

Proven strategies for better reading skills-from comprehension, focus, and retention to overcoming challenges such as ADD. Whether it's for education or enjoyment, reading can be challenging. Understanding and remembering what you've read, and keeping focus and concentration when you have to read long or difficult texts, takes certain skills. Luckily, those skills can be learned and improved. In Improve Your Reading, education expert Ron Fry offers...