Reading Passages. Multicultural Books for Children: 50 Great Lists. I was dismayed to discover that the number of multicultural books published hasn’t increased during the last 18 years despite census data that shows 37% of the US population consists of people of color.
This graphic is from Lee and Low publishers. I have posted a large number of book lists for kids focusing on multicultural books (some my own creations but others that I’ve happily discovered) but I know that my search capability in my blog is not that great. I am organizing them all here in hopes that more people will read multicultural children’s books. Hopefully this will spark an interest that will lead to more books depicting people of color being published.
Multicultural Book Lists for Kids I’ve broken down my multicultural lists by: Top 10 Multicultural Board Books for Babies and Toddlers It was surprisingly hard to find board books with diversity and inclusive themes. Top 10 Best Multicultural Easy Readers I searched my public library for the best diversity easy readers. Best Books of 2014. Haiku Learning : My Classes. Thank you for joining ReadWorks.org! King County Library System. Reading Websites - Showalter Library. Web Resources for English Language Learners - Showalter Library. Words Count: Exercises. World Wide Words: Recently added. The Word Detective. The Word Detective. Online games - SAT and GRE Games and Info. Verbal Reasoning: Sentence Completion Quiz #2. Verbal Reasoning: Sentence Completion Quiz #1. Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.
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The Adventures of Aladdin The Brothers Grimm One day, as he was looking for wild figs in a grove some way from the town, Aladdin met a mysterious stranger. This smartly dressed dark-eyed man with a trim black beard and a splendid sapphire in his turban, asked Aladdin an unusual question: "Come here, boy," he ordered. "How would you like to earn a silver penny? " Sentence-Combining Skills. The Need to Combine Sentences Sentences have to be combined to avoid the monotony that would surely result if all sentences were brief and of equal length.
(If you haven't already read them, see the sections on Avoiding Primer Style and Sentence Variety.) Part of the writer's task is to employ whatever music is available to him or her in language, and part of language's music lies within the rhythms of varied sentence length and structure. Even poets who write within the formal limits and sameness of an iambic pentameter beat will sometimes strike a chord against that beat and vary the structure of their clauses and sentence length, thus keeping the text alive and the reader awake.
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This makes our writing more coherent as well as more interesting to read. Understanding the functions of parts of the speech in a sentence and their relationship to one another can be very helpful in learning to construct good sentences. A sentence (to be a sentence) at the very least must have a Subject (noun or pronoun) and a Predicate (verb). Classic Short Stories. This is a listing of the stories by author with mention of the books that the stories were taken from or mention of the person who so graciously supplied the story to Classic Short Stories.
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