"Mai is excited about traveling to Vietnam with her mother. Mom wants to search for her birth family and Mai wants to help solve the mystery.Mai has never been to her mother's homeland, and she wonders what being there will reveal. Will learning about her mother's past help her gain a new sense of identity? Is her "real" home in America or Vietnam?What Mai discovers about her past will change her life forever. Journey Home is a story for ..."
"Let's Eat!Enjoying the tempting dishes that his mother prepares every day, from chick pea soup and empan+a1adas to sardinas and roast pollo, Antonio helps his other family members prepare a feast when his mother has a baby.""
"Gong Gong (Grandfather) is coming from China to live with Helen's family. Helen is excited, but anxious. How will she and her siblings, who know only English, communicate with Gong Gong, who speaks only Chinese?At first Gong Gong keeps to himself, reading the Chinese newspapers he brought with him. Then one day, as Helen sits outside watching for the train that runs behind her house, Gong Gong joins her. He starts counting the train car ..."
"Paired fiction and nonfiction literature, strong picture support, built-in instructional supports and activities, and picture dictionary in each volume"
"5 units, each with two themes, Pre-reading and post-reading activities for each selection, 5 Writing Projects, 1 per unit, Handbook Language and Learning Strategies, Writing, and Grammar"
"5 units each with 2 themes. Pre-reading and post-reading activities for each selection. 5 Writing Projects, 1 per unit, Handbook for Language and Learning Strategies, Writing, and Grammar."
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Manager; Jim Hiscort. Design Manager; Kristin Hanneman, lllustrations Manager;
Matt Wascavage, Manager of Publishing Services; Sean ... PROGRAM
DEVELOPER Kate Boehm Jerome ART DlRECTlON Daniel Banks, Project
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"Photographs: p5 and pp 128- 129: courtesy of Workman Publishing, New York,
from My World & Globe by Ira Wolfman, illustrated .... John Roman: pi 92 (All Over
the Map); Rosiland Solomon: pp64-65 (Growing Things), pi 23 (birds); Anne
Wilson: pp 10-11 (Welcome Home!) ... Editorial: Renee Biermann, Susan
Buntrock, Julie Cason, Honor Cline, Shirleyann Costigan, Roseann Erwin, Kristin
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"Paired fiction and nonfiction literature, strong picture support, built-in instructional supports and activities, and picture dictionary in each volume"
"Paired fiction and nonfiction literature, strong picture support, built-in instructional supports and activities, and picture dictionary in each volume"
"Paired fiction and nonfiction literature, strong picture support, built-in instructional supports and activities, and picture dictionary in each volume"
"Includes Language Acquisition Assessments, Selection Tests, Unit Tests, Writing Assessments, and forms for Peer- and Self-Assessments, as well as Portfolio Evaluation."
"Illustrated in full color. In this playful introduction to maps and geography, step by simple step, a young girl shows readers herself on a map of her room, her room on the map of her house, her house on the map of her street--all the way to her country on a map of the world. Once the reader is familiar with the maps, she demonstrates how readers can find their own country, state, and town--all the way back to their room--on each colorf ..."