Every year, more than 68 million students of every age find themselves worrying endlessly about that first day of school, even before it begins. Their hearts race, their stomachs turn and their palms sweat just thinking about getting on the school bus for the first time, that first surprise quiz, or that notoriously strict teacher. For parents of these children, nothing can be more upsetting than dropping their kids off on the first day of school, wondering how they will cope.
This series encourages reading and helps form early research skills, while capturing the imagination with fact, fiction, and fable. Lively photography, artwork, and information on the topics children love. Appropriate for elementary school students, this set is ideal for the classroom or library. Short articles are designed to be read by or to younger readers. Also appropriate for ESL students.
The present book is an attempt to peep into the minds of young learners of English Language. English, being a second language in, India has always remained a language of important status. Hence, a special attention has always been given to its learning, both on the part of teacher as well as the learner. Reading is one of the major important skills of language learning due to its innumerable significant aspects. The book introduces us to the two major correlates of reading; the psychological and the socIal factors. There are many other factors affecting reading such as biological factors, but those require more of clinical treatment.
What if you could go back in time and change the course of history? What if the watershed moment you could change was JFK assassination? 11/22/63 - the date that Kennedy was shot - unless... King takes the protagonist Jake Epping, a high school English teacher from Lisbon Falls, Maine, on a fascinating journey back to 1958 - from a world of mobile phoes and iPods to a new world of Elvis and JFK, of Plymouth Fury cars and Lindy Hopping, of a troubled loner named Lee Harvey Oswald and a beautiful high school librarian amed Sadie Dunhill, who becomes love of the Jake's life - a life that transgresses all the normal rules of time.
