August is a little boy who looks different from anyone else. Really different. He has one eye and other strange, misshapen features that make children stare at him. But inside he is just a little boy who loves his dog Dasiy, likes to play ball, eat ice cream and ride his bike. Since he knows he can’t change the way he looks, he wonders what it would be like if people could change the way they see him.
The Lotterys are a unique and diverse family with four parents, seven kids and five pets – all living happily together in a big old house. Nine-year-old Sumac is looking forward to a long summer of fun until her grumpy grandpa moves in with them.
At one stage eBooks were the fastest growing sector of children’s publishing. It looked like it was all over for paper books, bookstores, libraries, etc. The major publishing houses were hooking up eBook and app sections...
In a world overflowing with information it’s more important than ever to use comprehension skills to extract meaning from a text and be able to apply that elsewhere. Simply put, your child needs to understand what he is reading. It may sound simple, but chances are...
Simply put, metacognition is the ability to think about thinking. Metacognition implies an understanding of your own thought process. When reading, we instinctively infer meaning, guess what the characters will do, make links between earlier texts or quiz ourselves...
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