Note: Purchase this file once, and then make legal copies for your students. At the River presents a combination of interactive reading instructional techniques and sound ESL methodology to give low literate students a bridge to mainstream ESL textbooks. Each unit provides structured, scaffolded practice in writing and reading letters, letter combinations, words, sentences, and paragraphs. Clear illustrations reinforce both phonics and vocabulary for everyday situations. This effective, class-tested phonics and reading system enables even ESL teachers with no reading development training to teach nonliterate and semiliterate students how to read in English. A detailed teacher’s guide is available free of charge.

At the River presents a combination of interactive reading instructional techniques and sound ESL methodology to give low literate students a bridge to mainstream ESL textbooks. Each unit provides structured, scaffolded practice in writing and reading letters, letter combinations, words, sentences, and paragraphs. Clear illustrations reinforce both phonics and vocabulary for everyday situations. This effective, class-tested phonics and reading system enables even ESL teachers with no reading development training to teach nonliterate and semiliterate students how to read in English. A detailed teacher's guide is available free of charge.

At the Lake integrates interactive reading instructional techniques and sound ESL methodology to help beginners acquire literacy skills in English. Focusing on phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension, At the Lake reinforces and extends the basic literacy instruction found in At the River.Short stories and multiple exercises offer scaffolded practice in the most commonly used sound-spelling patterns of long vowels in English. R-controlled vowels and other vowel variations are also taught directly. Students review short vowels, consonant blends, and consonant digraphs in each unit. At the Lake helps students build reading fluency and decoding skills, which foster vocabulary acquisition and comprehension skills.At the Lake enables ESL teachers of any experience level to teach reading in English to students with limited or interrupted formal education, or to any student who needs to improve spelling, decoding, pronunciation, and reading in English. A detailed teacher's guide and audio files are available free of charge on the Wayzgoose Press website.

ABR: YOU CAN READ! is a unique, comprehensive, Basic Essentials Literacy Learning Curriculum and Tutoring Program. It is specifically designed to help adults improve basic reading skills. It has 3 sections: Letters (sight and sounds); Words (900 Sight & Rhyming Words; 1200+ Practical Literacy Words in 29 Units); and Let’s Learn (900+ key Words in 49 Academic and Civics Units). Each learning session can incorporate varied units. Millions of American adults (17.5%) are at beginning reading levels, and many others want to improve English Language skills. This extensive collection of units fits a wide variety of learning needs and styles and builds on the rich vocabulary and experiential foundations adults already have. In addition to use in Adult Literacy Programs, it has practical use in ESL, Family Literacy and Workplace Literacy Programs, as well as in Schools and for Home Study. ABR: YOU CAN READ! provides extensive exposure to a wide range of Letter and Word Study skills. It fills education gaps and builds a foundation of academic concepts. Approaches blend Sight and Sound Recognition, Word Attack Skills and Functional Literacy content so individuals can optimally learn and be proudly told, “You Can Read!”

Europeans came to the American colonies in the 1600s and 1700s in search of a better life. They worked hard and built farms, homes, and towns. But they were still under Great Britain's rule. Many wanted to make their own laws, but that meant going to war against a rich and powerful country. Will you: Travel to Virginia as an indentured servant? Choose between careers as a sailor or a soldier in Massachusetts? Decide which side you'll take as the country marches closer to revolution?

"I don't realize I'm crying until he glances at me. For a moment, I see the look of anguish in his eyes, then he blinks it away and slips off into the water. I immediately think of the gator. It's still down there somewhere. . . ." A science-class field trip to the Everglades is supposed to be fun, but Sarah's new at Glades Academy, and her fellow freshmen aren’t exactly making her feel welcome. When an opportunity for an unauthorized side trip on an air boat presents itself, it seems like a perfect escape—an afternoon without feeling like a sore thumb. But one simple oversight turns a joyride into a race for survival across the river of grass. Sarah will have to count on her instincts—and a guy she barely knows—if they have any hope of making it back alive.

The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation