An exciting and modern reference book about emergency vehicles for emergent readers. Emergency Vehicles is full of facts and engaging pictures of rescue vehicles hard at work. Big, annotated photos reveal exciting details of how fire trucks, ambulances, police cars, motorbikes, and helicopters really work. Alongside are explorations of more unusual vehicles that do spectacular jobs, from superscoopers to fireboats. The book highlights how team work between vehicles and crews is vital, for example in an hour-by-hour airport emergency. Clear layouts, simple words, and word-picture relationships make these books perfect for children first encountering information books and reading. Vetted by literacy experts.

Kids will love singing these whimsical learning songs again and again! Specially designed to build beginning reading skills, each reproducible song targets a key word family and can be sung to a familiar childhood tune. Includes quick teaching tips, reproducible word cards, and school-home connections. Aligned with the Common Core State Standards. For use with Grades K-2.

Provides structured and repeated practice of essential reading skills to help students develop the ability to comprehend what they read. Across grade levels, students are introduced to more skills while continuing to develop those they learned in previous grades.

Make sure your child is ready for the new Level 6 'Super SATs'. Scholastic Practice Papers will help prepare your child with confidence so they can achieve to the best of their ability. 100% in line with the 2013 National Tests, these are the most authentic practice papers available for the Level 6 Reading Test. From Scholastic, whose resources have been trusted by teachers for more than 25 years, this pack provides three complete tests and mark schemes, as well as clear guidance for parents, pupils an teachers about what is expected at Level 6.

With the rapid increase in internet access in recent years, cyberbullying has become a major problem for millions of young people. Readers will find out about the many different types of cyberbullying, from posting unflattering photos online to sending threatening text messages. They will also learn why it is important to avoid these activities and what they can do if they are victims of cyberbullying.

Good manners are an important part of dealing with other people. However, it's not always easy to have the correct response for each and every social situation. This title covers the many ways readers can be polite and respectful to others, whether they are at home, in the classroom, or on the field at a sporting event.

Whether choosing what to eat for lunch or how to react to a stressful situation, it is important to think carefully and make choices that will keep us healthy and happy. Readers will find out why some choices are harder than others and why the things we want to do might not always be the things we should do.

When sun flares hit the Earth, intense heat, toxic radiation and flooding followed, wiping out much of the human race. Those who survived live in basic communities in the mountains, hunting for food. For Mark and his friends, surviving is difficult, and then an enemy arrives, infecting people with a highly contagious virus. Thousands die, and the virus is spreading. Worse, it's mutating, and people are going crazy. It's up to Mark and his friends to find the enemy — and a cure — before the Flare infects them all.

HORRIBLE HISTORIES WITCHES reveals the truth behind pointy hats and black cats, and other idiotic ideas about witchcraft. Full of foul facts, including which magic word was used to zap zits, why people were paid to prick a witch and much, much more. It's everything you need to know about WITCHES — all the gore and more!

«We're going to the land of the dead and we're going to come back.» Will and Lyra, whose fates are bound together by powers beyond their own worlds, have been violently separated. But they must find each other, for ahead of them lies the greatest war that has ever been — and a journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned...The third volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature.»

«Without this child, we shall all die.» Lyra Belacqua and her animal daemon live half-wild and carefree among scholars of Jordan College, Oxford. The destiny that awaits her will take her to the frozen lands of the Arctic, where witch-clans reign and ice-bears fight. Her extraordinary journey will have immeasurable consequences far beyond her own world...The first volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature.»

«What is he? A friend, or an enemy?» «He is a murderer.» Will has just killed a man. He's on the run. His escape will take him far beyond his own world, to the eerie disquiet of a deserted city, and to a girl, Lyra. Her fate is strangely linked to his own, and together they must find the most powerful weapon in all the worlds...The second volume in Philip Pullman's incredible HIS DARK MATERIALS trilogy. First published in 1995, and acclaimed as a modern masterpiece, it won the UK's top awards for children's literature.»

Grammar Builder is a series of 6 grammar practice books that enables students to review and apply essential grammar. As knowledge of grammar is essential in the acquisition of English, as the student progresses through the worksheets they will strengthen the skills needed to read and write well. Each grammar item is covered in three pages. The first two pages feature an explanation of the grammar item as well as a range of exercises that target the student's ability to identify and apply it. The final page provides a quick assessment of the student's understanding of the use of the grammar item. Main features: Grammar items covered at one level are reinforced at subsequent levels so that students can consolidate their learning and build upon it; Extensive and structured exercises targeted at improving and evaluating students' understanding of specific grammar items; Assessment after each targeted grammar item, and a revision section at the conclusion of the book assess and consolidate learning For use with Grades 4.

Grammar Builder is a series of 6 grammar practice books that enables students to review and apply essential grammar. As knowledge of grammar is essential in the acquisition of English, as the student progresses through the worksheets they will strengthen the skills needed to read and write well. Each grammar item is covered in three pages. The first two pages feature an explanation of the grammar item as well as a range of exercises that target the student's ability to identify and apply it. The final page provides a quick assessment of the student's understanding of the use of the grammar item. Main features: Grammar items covered at one level are reinforced at subsequent levels so that students can consolidate their learning and build upon it; Extensive and structured exercises targeted at improving and evaluating students' understanding of specific grammar items; Assessment after each targeted grammar item, and a revision section at the conclusion of the book assess and consolidate learning For use with Grades 5.

Grammar Builder is a series of 6 grammar practice books that enables students to review and apply essential grammar. As knowledge of grammar is essential in the acquisition of English, as the student progresses through the worksheets they will strengthen the skills needed to read and write well. Each grammar item is covered in three pages. The first two pages feature an explanation of the grammar item as well as a range of exercises that target the student's ability to identify and apply it. The final page provides a quick assessment of the student's understanding of the use of the grammar item. Main features: Grammar items covered at one level are reinforced at subsequent levels so that students can consolidate their learning and build upon it; Extensive and structured exercises targeted at improving and evaluating students' understanding of specific grammar items; Assessment after each targeted grammar item, and a revision section at the conclusion of the book assess and consolidate learning For use with Grades 6.

Grammar Builder is a series of 6 grammar practice books that enables students to review and apply essential grammar. As knowledge of grammar is essential in the acquisition of English, as the student progresses through the worksheets they will strengthen the skills needed to read and write well. Each grammar item is covered in three pages. The first two pages feature an explanation of the grammar item as well as a range of exercises that target the student's ability to identify and apply it. The final page provides a quick assessment of the student's understanding of the use of the grammar item. Main features: Grammar items covered at one level are reinforced at subsequent levels so that students can consolidate their learning and build upon it; Extensive and structured exercises targeted at improving and evaluating students' understanding of specific grammar items; Assessment after each targeted grammar item, and a revision section at the conclusion of the book assess and consolidate learning For use with Grades 2.

Grammar Builder is a series of 6 grammar practice books that enables students to review and apply essential grammar. As knowledge of grammar is essential in the acquisition of English, as the student progresses through the worksheets they will strengthen the skills needed to read and write well. Each grammar item is covered in three pages. The first two pages feature an explanation of the grammar item as well as a range of exercises that target the student's ability to identify and apply it. The final page provides a quick assessment of the student's understanding of the use of the grammar item. Main features: Grammar items covered at one level are reinforced at subsequent levels so that students can consolidate their learning and build upon it; Extensive and structured exercises targeted at improving and evaluating students' understanding of specific grammar items; Assessment after each targeted grammar item, and a revision section at the conclusion of the book assess and consolidate learning For use with Grades 3.

Grammar Builder is a series of 6 grammar practice books that enables students to review and apply essential grammar. As knowledge of grammar is essential in the acquisition of English, as the student progresses through the worksheets they will strengthen the skills needed to read and write well. Each grammar item is covered in three pages. The first two pages feature an explanation of the grammar item as well as a range of exercises that target the student's ability to identify and apply it. The final page provides a quick assessment of the student's understanding of the use of the grammar item. Main features: Grammar items covered at one level are reinforced at subsequent levels so that students can consolidate their learning and build upon it; Extensive and structured exercises targeted at improving and evaluating students' understanding of specific grammar items; Assessment after each targeted grammar item, and a revision section at the conclusion of the book assess and consolidate learning For use with Grades 1.

Susie Dent is here to take children on a rip-roaring tour through some of the most astonishing, amusing and sometimes quite revolting backgrounds of English words. Did you know, for instance, that 'fizzle' originally meant to break wind silently? Over time, it came to describe a weak, spluttering, hissing sound. And you might think that 'ain't' isn't a word you should use, but it is thought the word was once used by kings and queens. As Susie Dent knows, even the most ordinary-sounding word can have the most extraordinary story behind it.

Provides structured and repeated practice of essential reading skills to help students develop the ability to comprehend what they read. Across grade levels, students are introduced to more skills while continuing to develop those they learned in previous grades!