Download or read book If You re So Smart How Come You Can t Spell Mississippi written by Barbara Esham and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This upbeat addition to the Adventures of Everyday Geniuses series offers an encouraging insight into the struggles and triumphs of someone with dyslexia. When looking for books about dyslexia for kids, If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi is a great way to start conversations about dyslexia both at home and in the classroom. Katie always thought her dad was smart—he is one of the busiest attorneys in town! People are always asking him for advice. She has been a bit confused ever since asking him for help with her weekly spelling list. How can her very smart dad struggle with one of her spelling words? This definitely didn't make sense. The word Mississippi has changed everything... This growth mindset picture book employs a frank and thoughtful approach to dyslexia so that readers can explore the various ways people learn and recognize that some difficulties do not have to be restrictions on what a person can achieve. The Adventures of Everyday Geniuses Series: Free Association Where My Mind Goes During Science Class Stacey Coolidge Fancy-Smancy Cursive Handwriting Mrs. Gorski I Think I Have the Wiggle Fidgets If You're So Smart, How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi Last to Finish, A Story About the Smartest Boy in Math Class Keep Your Eye on the Prize The Adventures of Everyday Geniuses series is meant to demonstrate various forms of learning, creativity, and intelligence. Each book introduces a realistic example of triumph over difficulty in a positive, humorous way that readers of all ages will enjoy! "Challenges in reading and spelling are often accompanied by special abilities in areas like complex pattern recognition and spatial reasoning. If You're So Smart How Come You Can't Spell Mississippi? is a fantastic way of bringing this information to the many smart children who find reading and spelling especially difficult—especially to those who are beginning to doubt their own potential." —Drs. Brock (M.D., M.A.) and Fernette (M.D.) Eides, authors of The Mislabeled Child and founders of the Eide Neurolearning Clinic. Praise for the series: "This is a wonderful book series. Each story shows children that success is about effort and determination, that problems need not derail them, and that adults can understand their worries and struggles. My research demonstrates that these lessons are essential for children." —Dr. Carol S. Dweck

Download or read book When Dads Don t Grow Up written by Marjorie Blain Parker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An endearing celebration of dads who are young at heart Just in time for Father's Day, this playful book follows four father-child pairs as they spend happy, silly times together, popping bubble wrap and watching cartoons and taking part in shoppingcart races. These are dads who aren't worried about looking goofy or getting their hair wet - dads who still remember what it's like to be little. Don't be fooled. They may look like grown-ups on the outside, But underneath they're just like you . . . Kids!

Download or read book Social Smarts written by Elizabeth James and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1996 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers advice on how to handle all kinds of social situations and personal interactions, presented with letters from two eighth graders to an etiquette advice columnist, K. T. Answers.

Download or read book How Come You Can t Spell Mississippi written by Barbara Esham and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Katie always thought her dad was smart--he is one of the busiest attorneys in town! People are always asking him for advice. She has been a bit confused ever since asking him for help with her weekly spelling list. How can her very smart dad struggle with one of her spelling words? This definitely didn't make sense. The word Mississippi has changed everything..."--

Download or read book The Alphabet War written by Diane Burton Robb and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Best Children's Books of the Year, Bank Street College Why was reading so hard? When Adam started kindergarten, the teacher wanted him to learn about letters. But "p" looked like "q," and "b" looked like "d." Adam would rather color or mold clay. In first grade, his teacher wanted him to put the letters into words so he could read. That was the beginning of the Alphabet War. "Was" looked like "saw," and "there" looked like "then." Almost everyone else in his class was learning to read, but Adam was fighting a war against letters. In second grade, he had to learn to spell, which was also impossible. Now he was so frustrated he got into trouble and had to go to the principal's office. At last, in third grade, he got the right kind of help. Slowly he began to do better. During fourth grade, he learned that he could excel in other things. That gave him the confidence to take chances with reading. One day he found himself reading a book all by himself!

Download or read book Cartwheels written by Tracy Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively Sloan loves to make up dances, put on shows, and do art. But as she heads into first grade, nothing frustrates her more than reading. In math, the numbers go together right in her brain, but no matter how hard she looks at letters, and no matter how many times her teacher and parents say "focus," she would much rather do cartwheels. She feels sad that she isn't "with" her class and isn't reading the "right way." Then, she finds out that she has dyslexia. Join Sloan on her journey to learn to read, gain confidence, and find her own special kind of smart. Cartwheels is a great story for opening conversations and explaining the basics of dyslexia to children.

Download or read book Ivy and Bean Make the Rules Book 9 written by Annie Barrows and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bean's older sister, Nancy, is going to Girl Power 4-Ever Camp and Bean can't go. So Bean and Ivy make their own camp.

Download or read book The Dyslexia Empowerment Plan written by Ben Foss and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Identifying and building on your child's strengths; understanding your child's rights, and how to talk to schools about them; best practices for accommodations and the latest technologies"-- Jacket.

Download or read book Our Kind written by Marvin Harris and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1990-09-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing with the same wit, humor, and style of his earlier bestsellers, noted anthropologist Marvin Harris traces our roots and views our destiny.

Download or read book Smart Classroom written by Dena D Slanda and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers deserve unlimited copies, brand new technology, working pencil sharpeners, an endless supply of dry erase markers, and all the flexible seating available for their classrooms. Although you may not be able to get that - we can offer you your very own personal assistant! Explore all the ways your personal assistant can help you organize your chaos with: Structuring routines Managing your daily to-do list Arranging your student groups Creating accessible lessons Executing your centers Making learning fun! "Smart" Classroom: 101 Ways to Teach with Alexa shares 101 simple ways Alexa can be your personal assistant so you can teach "smarter" and provide another avenue for bringing joy and community into your classroom.

Download or read book I Heard You Twice the First Time written by Kalli Dakos and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kalli Dakos, a teacher and popular school poet, lends her verse to celebrate teachers and the important work they do. These poems range from lighthearted glimpses of classroom life to selections that will inspire teachers to share their unique gifts and talents with children. ,,,,Kalli hopes teachers will laugh and cry through these poems, and ultimately be inspired to celebrate the poetic moments in their own classrooms.

Download or read book Sleepy Time written by Patricia Martin and published by Magination Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wordless picture book in which a little girl takes a bath, brushes her teeth, shows her father the monster under the bed, and otherwise gets ready to go to sleep.

Download or read book Harbor Me written by Jacqueline Woodson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Jacqueline Woodson's first middle-grade novel since National Book Award winner Brown Girl Dreaming celebrates the healing that can occur when a group of students share their stories. It all starts when six kids have to meet for a weekly chat--by themselves, with no adults to listen in. There, in the room they soon dub the ARTT Room (short for "A Room to Talk"), they discover it's safe to talk about what's bothering them--everything from Esteban's father's deportation and Haley's father's incarceration to Amari's fears of racial profiling and Ashton's adjustment to his changing family fortunes. When the six are together, they can express the feelings and fears they have to hide from the rest of the world. And together, they can grow braver and more ready for the rest of their lives.

Download or read book Teach Me Mommy written by Dakota Jones and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Teach Me Mommy" was written by a young mother Ambrianna Jones and her daughter Dakota Jones to teach young girls especially, everything they need to know.Ambrianna Jones has over 15 years of childcare experience with different age groups so her whole career has been "Teaching" and "Educating" so it was important for Ambrianna to teach her daughter the many things that she's taught other children over the years. The goal was to teach Dakota the typical ABC', s and 123's but it was also very important for Ambrianna to teach Dakota about life and how to be a lady at the early age of 4 when the two did a duet song called "Teach Me" that went viral all over the internet. In 2019 when Dakota was only 4 years of age Ambrianna thought it was appropriate to start teaching her daughter "Everything She Needs to know" and wants to encourage all mothers to do the same and start early

Download or read book Keep Your Eye on the Prize written by Barbara Esham and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Dylan create his own science fair project without accepting too much help from his enthusiastic parents? The Adventures of Everyday Geniuses is meant to demonstrate various forms of learning, creativity, and intelligence. Each book introduces a realistic example of triumph over difficulty in a positive, humorous way that readers of all ages will enjoy! The biggest day of the year at Morecaster School is filled with ideas, hard work, and pressure—it's time for the annual science fair! Like many kids, Dylan is caught between doing his project on his own, and accepting help from his enthusiastic parents. This year he's determined to do all the work himself, even if it means his project won't be perfect. Keep Your Eye on the Prize is an honest and humorous look at encouraging children to be independent in their work and proud of their results. "Barbara Esham deftly deals with what can be a difficult subject for students or teachers to broach. How do you help parents understand when the help they're giving is too much?...This book is as valuable for parents and teachers as it is for young people, and is a great way to help everyone understand how to give just the right amount of assistance." —Academics' Choice Foundation, Dr. Corinne Hyde, Professor of Clinical Education, University of Southern California Praise for the series: "This is a wonderful book series. Each story shows children that success is about effort and determination, that problems need not derail them, and that adults can understand their worries and struggles. My research demonstrates that these lessons are essential for children."—Dr. Carol S. Dweck

Download or read book Lexy written by Kristi Davis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-11 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lexy has lots of ideas. She has ideas about shoes, acorns, spelling tests, and fixing a vacuum cleaner. She is clever, but she needs special instruction for reading and spelling. You see Lexy thinks differently. Like Lexy, nearly 20 percent of our population has dyslexia. Many of them are famous, including the ones listed at the back of this book. So if your child struggles with reading and spelling, please don't miss the Introduction and Parent Notes! If not, then please enjoy this whimsical little girl. Lexy will tickle the hearts of you and your child, and she just may ease your mind. She is for reference as well as entertainment. Lexy is dyslexia!

Download or read book MONEY Master the Game written by Anthony Robbins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bibliography found online at tonyrobbins.com/masterthegame"--Page [643].