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S127, 131 BAILEY'S BOOK HOUSE

Seven activities help develop beginning literacy skills. Bailey and his friends inspire early readers to learn letters, words and word families, rhyming, prepositions, adjectives, and storytelling. Make your own greeting cards and storybooks too! A special highlighting technique encourages kids to follow words as they hear them read aloud.

S54 BUILDABILITY: SWITCH ACCESSIBLE

With this program you can create stories with sound, text, music, colors, movies, and action. Have you ever seen a flipbook? These are books containing pages of pictures. Each picture is a different image of some action, like a person waving or a horse running. The picture pages are arranged in the order of the action, like the frames of a movie. When you flip through the pages of the book, you see the action—the horse runs or the person waves. BuildAbility works in much the same way, letting you build the pages of your moving story, then animating the result. A BuildAbility story contains pages, composed of one or more elements. Pages are nothing more than a sequence of elements. BuildAbility stores elements and pages in order. That’s what lets BuildAbiltiy capture your ideas and put them in motion, exactly as you created.

S55, 56 READING FOR MEANING

Based on a research-validated instructional model, Reading for Meaning targets reading comprehension. Students read authentic literature selections — both fiction and non-fiction, complete graphic organizers, and answer comprehension questions. Through explicit modeling and guided practice, students develop skills in five key areas: main idea, inference, sequence, cause & effect, and compare & contrast.

S43 SIMPLE SYMBOLS STORIES FOR BEGINNING READERS: SWITCH ACCESSIBLE

Simple Symbol Stories makes learning to read fun for everyone! Give students a chance to read and spell short and long vowel sounds in an easy and enjoyable way. Simple Symbol Stories includes short, simple rhyming stories that are humorously illustrated. All 20 stories include word-for-word Picture Communication Symbols (PCS) in addition to the regular text and are read with flair.

S44 SIMPLE SYMBOLS STORIES 2: SWITCH ACCESSIBLE

S82 START TO FINISH: THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Start-to-Finish was developed for older elementary and early adolescent students reading below grade level, so we made them ultra engaging and considerate of that age group. A vast array of narrative chapter books (Library) and core-curriculum expository titles (Core Content) are available.

PLOT: Two young boys, Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, have each come into a considerable sum of money as a result of their earlier adventures (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer). Huck has been placed under the guardianship of the Widow Douglas, who, together with her sister, Miss Watson, are attempting to "sivilize" him. Huck appreciates their efforts, but finds civilized life confining. In the beginning of the story, Tom Sawyer appears briefly, helping Huck escape at night from the house, past Miss Watson's slave, Jim. They meet up with Tom Sawyer's self-proclaimed gang, who plot to carry out adventurous crimes. Life is changed by the sudden appearance of Huck's shiftless father "Pap," an abusive parent and drunkard. Although Huck is successful in preventing his Pap from acquiring his fortune, Pap forcibly gains custody of Huck and the two move to the backwoods where Huck is kept locked inside his father's cabin. Equally dissatisfied with life with his father, Huck escapes from the cabin, elaborately fakes his own death, and sets off down the Mississippi River.

S86 START TO FINISH: A MIDSUMMERS NIGHT DREAM

PLOT: Only a few days before the wedding day of the Duke of Athens, two young lovers, Hermia and Lysander, run off to the woods to elope. Anotehr young man, Demetrius, who is in love with Hermia, follows after them, and a maiden named Helena follows after Demetrius. That same evening, some workmen from Athens have gathered in the woods to rehearse a play. But these are no ordinary woods! Before the night is over, fairy magic has turned the mortals’ world upside down, and left the fairies with a grand mess to untangle.

S91 START TO FINISH: ANNE FRANK

PLOT: Anne Frank and her family were Jews who were living in Germany when Hitler came to power. Hitler was the leader of a group of people called Nazis. The Nazis wanted to kill all the Jews. Anne and her family were afraid for their lives so they ran away to Holland and went into hiding with another family. For more than two years, Anne couldn’t go outside. She couldn’t make any noise. All she could do was write down her thoughts, her wishes, and her dreams in a diary. This book tells the story of her life.

S123 START TO FINISH: ANNE OF GREEN GABLES

PLOT: Marilla and Matthew Cuthbert, brother and sister who live together at Green Gables, a farm in the village of Avonlea, on Prince Edward Island in Canada, decide to adopt a boy from an orphan asylum in Nova Scotia as a helper on their farm. Through a series of mishaps, the person who ends up under their roof is a precocious girl of eleven named Anne Shirley. Anne is bright and quick, eager to please and talkative, but dissatisfied with her name, her pale countenance dotted with freckles, and with her long braids of red hair. Although wishing she was named Cordelia, she insists that if you are to call her Anne, it must be spelt with an 'E', as it is "so much more distinguished." Being a child of imagination, however, Anne takes much joy in life, and adapts quickly, thriving in the environment of Prince Edward Island. She is something of a chatterbox, and drives the prim, duty-driven Marilla to distraction, although shy Matthew falls for her immediately.

S116 START TO FINISH: CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS

PLOT: Harvey Cheyne is the son of a wealthy railroad magnate raised (and quite thoroughly spoiled) by his over-indulgent parents. Washed overboard from a transatlantic steamship and rescued by fishermen on the Grand Banks, the young Harvey cannot persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince them of his wealth. However, the Captain of the We're Here, Disko Troop, offers him a job as part of the crew until they return to port. With no other choice, Harvey accepts. There follows a series of trials and adventures where the boy learns to adjust to his rough new life, and with the help of his friend, the captain's son, Dan Troop, he makes fine progress. Eventually, the schooner returns to port and Harvey wires his parents. They rush to the fishing town (Gloucester, Massachusetts) and find to their amazement that their child has become an industrious, serious and considerate young man.

S85 START TO FINISH: CALL OF THE WILD

PLOT: Buck is a dog who leads a comfortable life in a California ranch home with his owner, a judge, until he is stolen and sold to pay off a gambling debt. Buck is taken to Alaska and sold to a pair of French Canadians who were impressed with his physique. They train him as a sled dog, and he quickly learns how to survive the cold winter nights and the pack society by observing his teammates. Buck is later sold again and passes hands several times, all the while improving his abilities as a sled dog and pack leader

S88 START TO FINISH: FOR LIBERTY- AMERICAN REVOLUTION

PLOT: In this book, you will read the story of David Brady. David is a thirteen-year-old boy living in Boston during the American Revolution. He will tell you about the famous Boston Tea Party and the first battles of the war. David is a made-up character, but the famous Americans and famous events around him are real.

S115 START TO FINISH: FRANKENSTEIN

PLOT: A scientist named Dr. Frankentstein collects the body parts of dead things and uses them to build a living creature. But when the creature opens its yellow eyes for the first the time, Dr. Frankenstein thinks it is a monster, and he runs away from it. Now the creature must learn about life by itself. As the creature hunts for the man who made him, people are so cruel to him that he really becomes a monster. When he finds Dr. Frankenstein at last, the monster makes him promise to build him a wife. Will there be two monsters now?

S89 START TO FINISH: HURRICANE!

PLOT: What is it like to get caught in a hurricane? What happened to 80,000 soldiers who got caught in a hurricane 700 years ago? What happened to 30 Spanish ships full of gold when a hurricane caught them at sea? What happened to the Lopez family in 1992 when a hurricane hit their home in Florida? This book will tell you a lot about science and weather. If you live in the path of a hurricane, it might even save your life!

S78 START TO FINISH: JIM THORPE STORY

PLOT: Jim Thorpe was a Native American who grew up to be the most famous athlete in the world. There has never been another athlete like Jim Thorpe. He tried many sports and he was good at every one of them. He became an Olympic champion in track, a major-league baseball player, and one of the best football players in history! But Jim’s path never stayed bright for long. Death took away the people that he loved. An unfair decision took away his Olympic medals. For many years, Jim was poor and forgotten. One day, people would remember Jim Thorpe. They would remember his skill and his great courage. And they would call him the greatest athlete of the 20th century.

S87 START TO FINISH: KING LEAR

PLOT: King Lear is one of Shakespeare’s saddest plays. Old King Lear loved his youngest daughter, Cordelia, much more than he loved his other two daughters. One day Lear asked all his daughters to tell him how much they loved him. The two oldest daughters lied and said that they loved him more than anything else. But Cordelia wouldn’t lie like her sisters. She wouldn’t say that she loved her father even more than she would lover her husband. King Lear became angry. He sent Cordelia away and he gave his kingdom to his other daughters. Soon, the other daughters threw King Lear out of his own castles. One night, in a terrible storm, Lear went mad. How could he have been so foolish? He had sent away the only daughter who had really loved him! Who would save him now from his tow evil daughters?

S128 START TO FINISH: LITTLE WOMEN

PLOT: Each of the March girls must struggle to overcome a character flaw: Meg, vanity; Jo, a hot temper; Beth, shyness; and Amy, selfishness. In the course of the novel, the girls become friends with their next-door neighbor, the teenage boy Laurie. The book depicts the light hearted, often humorous activities of the sisters and their friend, such as creating a newspaper and picnicking, and the various "scrapes" that Jo and Laurie get into. Jo consistently struggles with the boundaries 19th century society placed on females, including not being able to fight in a war, not being able to attend college, and being pressured by her Aunt March to find a suitable husband to take care of her.

S84 START TO FINISH: MACBETH

PLOT: At the beginning of the play, Macbeth had just won a battle for the King. After the battle, Macbeth saw three witches who told him that he would become the next King of Scotland. Macbeth’s wife told him to kill King Duncan. Then Macbeth would be King. But could Macbeth even dream of killing his own king? And if he did kill the King, would the other Lords of Scotland attack Macbeth? How many men would Macbeth have to kill before he could be King?

S81 START TO FINISH: RED BADGE COURAGE

PLOT: The story is set during an unnamed battle of the American Civil War which bears numerous parallels to the historical Battle of Chancellorsville.[6] 18-year-old Henry Fleming joins the Union Army despite discouragement from his mother (he has no father mentioned in the book, save that his mother says his father never drank alcohol), and becomes a private in the (fictional) 304th New York Regiment. In the weeks and days leading up to the conflict, Henry muses about whether he'll be brave, or will turn and run. During his first battle, Confederate soldiers charge his regiment, but are repelled. A few minutes later, they regroup and attack again. This time, when Henry sees some other people running and has his own fears that the battle is a lost cause, he deserts his battalion. However, when he gets to the rear of the army, he overhears a general saying that the army won anyway, and realizes he ran for nothing, and ashamed, he spends the rest of the day away from his regiment.

S83 START TO FINISH: ROMEO AND JULIET

PLOT: Romeo and Juliet were growing up in the same town, but had never met each other. Their families hated each other and they were always fighting in the streets. Then one night, Romeo met Juliet. She was only 13 years old, but Romeo knew that he would lover her forever. That same night, they agreed to get married in secret. But what would happen when her family found out? What would happen if Romeo and Juliet tried to stop their families from fighting?

S77 START TO FINISH: STORY OF ALI

PLOT: It all began when someone stole a new bike from a boy named Cassius Clay. While Cassius was looking for his stolen bike he found a man who was teaching kids how to box. Fifteen years later Cassius Clay was a champion boxer and he changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Ali was the most exciting boxer of all time. Ali had quick feet and quick fists. And he was quick with words, also. He said that he could “Float like a butterfly and sting like a bee.” When the army told Ali to pick up a gun, Ali said no because it was against his religion. When he said no, he lost his championship crown. But Ali fought to win back his crown. And he became one of the most famous men in the world.

S79 START TO FINISH: STORY OF FLO JO

PLOT: Florence Griffith was five years old, she raced against the jackrabbits in the desert. By the time she was 20, she was one of the fastest runners in America. But then something seemed to go wrong. Why didn’t Florence Griffith win an Olympic gold medal in 1980 or 1984? And then how did she become the fastest woman in the world at the Olympics in 1988? Was it her hard work? Was it her new way of training? Was it also the faith and love of another great track star called Al Joyner? Did she look too good in her wild running suits? Was she too beautiful to set new world records? Who was this amazing woman? Who was this woman of speed and beauty? Who was Florence Griffith Joyner? Who was this woman called Flo Jo?

S90 START TO FINISH: THE CROSSBOW MYSTERY

PLOT: Meet Nick Ford. Nick is a teacher at City College of New York. He travels all over America. He is in Yellowstone National Park to help the Park Rangers trap some fish. But someone is killing elk with a crossbow. Killing elk in Yellowstone Park is against the law. It won’t be easy to stop this crime. Nick will run into grizzly bears, gunshots, and geysers.

S129 START TO FINSIH THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER

PLOT: The basic plot is that a young prince encounters a pauper of the same age and appearance as the prince. Unbeknownst to anyone else, the two boys quickly become friends, trade attire, and playfully change places. The prince's father, King Henry, dies, and certain unscrupulous officials insist that the pauper keep pretending to be prince so that those officials can benefit once the pauper is crowned king. Meanwhile, those same officials try to have the real prince killed. Eventually, the two boys prevail with heroic assistance from loyal subjects, so that the real identity of each boy becomes known to everyone before the real prince is crowned king.

S117 START TO FINSIH: THE THREE MUSKETTERS

PLOT: The poor d'Artagnan travels to Paris to join the Musketeers. He suffers misadventure and is challenged to a duel by each of three musketeers (Athos, Aramis and Porthos). Attacked by the Cardinal's guards, the four unite and escape.

S80 START TO FINISH: TREASURE ISLAND

PLOT: The novel opens in a seaside village in south-west England in the mid-18th century. The narrator, Jim Hawkins, is the young son of the owners of the Admiral Benbow Inn. An old drunken seaman named Billy Bones becomes a long-term lodger at the inn, only paying for about the first week of his stay. Jim quickly realizes that Bones is in hiding, and that he particularly dreads meeting an unidentified seafaring man with one leg. Some months later, Bones is visited by a mysterious sailor named Black Dog. Their meeting turns violent, Black Dog flees, and Bones suffers a stroke. While Jim cares for him, Bones confesses that he was once the mate of the late notorious pirate, Captain Flint, and that his old crewmates want Bones's sea chest.

S90 START TO FINISH: THE CROSSBOW MYSTERY

S93 UKANDU LITTLE BOOKS: A DAY AT PLAY- SWITCH ACCESSIBLE

UKanDu little books are collections of simple and short stores that build students literacy skills. Each four-page story brings reading success. The software features three animated stories that students can read and write themselves. Students fill in the blanks to complete a sentence on each page. Students enjoy reading and re-reading each story. Students can print the stories for more reading experiences at home and at school. The books feature three completed stories in large full color pictures and large text. Perfect for group guided reading experiences and for students independent reading practice.

S64 UKANDU SWITCHES, TOO! ON A GREEN BUS: SWITCH ACCESSIBLE

With UKanDu Little Books software, teachers can transition students from learning cause and effect to developing early literacy skills. With the software, students write short stories by choosing words from the onscreen prompts to complete simple sentences. All choices work, so there are no wrong answers. By making different choices, students create different stories and each story has 16 variations so students stay interested and motivated. Completed stories can be printed to give students a copy they can read over and over again.

S92 UKANDU LITTLE BOOKS: OUT AND ABOUT- SWITCH ACCESSIBLE

The software features three animated stories that students can read and write themselves. Students fill in the blanks to complete a sentence on each page. Students enjoy reading and re-reading each story. Students can print the stories for more reading experiences at home and at school. The books feature three completed stories in large full color pictures and large text. Perfect for group guided-reading experiences and for students independent reading practice.