An unfortunate accident - a crack in the Brass Lamp from the Red Obelisk - changes the course of the Sun Kids' journey. In Griffin Nest, they learn that they need to go to Elf Landing to save the Brass Lamp. But King Gris' den is in Elf Landing. And the bad king does not stop his tricks. Will the Sun Kids be able to save the Brass Lamp? Spelling Pen Brass Lamp has 25 chapters and over 8200 words. This is Book #3 in the Spelling Pen series. Book #1 is Spelling Pen In Elf Land, Book #2 is Spelling Pen Red Obelisk. This version is written with Century Schoolbook font. Dyslexie font version is also available. Simple Words Books help struggling readers become better readers, without tears. Our decodable books support improving their reading fluency, comprehension and confidence. In our books, we use decodable, high frequency and basic sight words that early readers can easily decode. Our short sentences and paragraphs make it easier for our readers to flow through the chapters. The entire word list and word frequency are included in the book and on our website (simplewordsbooks.com). We recommend the use of this list as a tool to determine the reading level match and pre-practice with the reader to improve fluency. Check out Simple Words Books at simplewordsbooks.com and Join READlexia Book Club for FREE to receive FREE decodable materials and special offers. Our promise is not to let dyslexia and other learning differences deprive kids of learning the love of reading.

An unfortunate accident - a crack in the Brass Lamp from the Red Obelisk - changes the course of the Sun Kids' journey. In Griffin Nest, they learn that they need to go to Elf Landing to save the Brass Lamp. But King Gris' den is in Elf Landing. And the bad king does not stop his tricks. Will the Sun Kids be able to save the Brass Lamp? Spelling Pen Brass Lamp has 25 chapters and over 8200 words. This is Book #3 in the Spelling Pen series. Book #1 is Spelling Pen In Elf Land, Book #2 is Spelling Pen Red Obelisk. This version is written with Dyslexie font. Century Schoolbook font version is also available. Simple Words Books help struggling readers become better readers, without tears. Our decodable books support improving their reading fluency, comprehension and confidence. In our books, we use decodable, high frequency and basic sight words that early readers can easily decode. Our short sentences and paragraphs make it easier for our readers to flow through the chapters. The entire word list and word frequency are included in the book and on our website (simplewordsbooks.com). We recommend the use of this list as a tool to determine the reading level match and pre-practice with the reader to improve fluency. Check out Simple Words Books at simplewordsbooks.com and Join READlexia Book Club for FREE to receive FREE decodable materials and special offers. Our promise is not to let dyslexia and other learning differences deprive kids of learning the love of reading.

From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

Suggesting that the contention that phonemic awareness must be taught directly and that children need explicit systematic instruction in phonics is less of a scientific "fact" than an exercise in political persuasion, this book presents the story of the political campaign that is taking place to change the minds of Americans about how young children learn to read. The book begins with a close look at the empirical research being used to support a massive shift in the national understandings about language, literacy, and learning and concludes by revealing the ways in which research studies on early reading instruction are being used by the federal and state governments to support a new methodology that has turned early reading instruction into "a massive business of unprecedented commercial worth." The chapters in the book are: (1) In Which We Are Told Training in Phonemic Awareness Is the Key to Reading Success; (2) In Which Phonemic Awareness Research Is Analyzed from an Experimental Psychological Perspective; (3) In Which Phonemic Awareness Research Is Analyzed from a Sociocultural Perspective; (4) In Which We Find Foorman's Research Does Not Support the NICHD [National Institute of Child Health and Human Development] Proposition That "Phonological Processing Is the Primary Area Where Children with Reading Difficulties Differ from Other Children"; (5) In Which Teachers Are Turned into Clerks and We Discuss Power, Privilege, Racism and Hegemony; (6) In Which Governor Bush's Business Council Holds a Pre-Summit Meeting in Texas; (7) In Which We Have an"If-They-Say-It's-So-It-Must-Be-So" Attitude toward Experimental Research; (8) In Which the Kindergarten Children in North Carolina Are No Longer Expected To Try To Read and Write; (9) In Which I Become the Documentation on Which I Build My Case; (10) In Which We Are Told That in America We Are All Equal. Are We or Aren't We?; (11) In Which We Find the Desks and Chairs Are Broken and the Toilets Don't Work; (12) In Which We Ask: Do You Think America Likes Children?; (13) In Which We Consider If We Are Comfortable Mandating Reading Programs based on Neuroimaging Research and Genetic Studies of Reading Disabilities; (14) In Which California Politically Reinvents How Young Children Learn To Read; (15) In Which California Ends Local Control and the State Board of Education Leads the Jihad; and (16) In Which We Enter the Central Chamber of the Hegemonic Labyrinth. (Contains approximately 250 references; an appendix that offers a response to preliminary statistical analyses used to support the nationally publicized findings of the NICHD Houston reading studies, and an appendix that offers "late-breaking" news about the NICHD Houston reading studies are attached.) (RS)

Provides an explanation of phonics, a method of reading instruction that focuses on the relationship between sounds and their spellings, and features over one hundred activities for the classroom, as well as sample lessons, word lists, and teaching strategies.

Everything is changing in Stan's life. And he does not like this a bit. Gran Jenn passed away. Then his dad lost his job. And now his best pal, Tom, is moving to Madrid.But Tom is leaving Stan in good hands. When he asks Stan to finish a last task for him, Tom has bigger plans for his best pal.What can Tom's last task be? Will Stan solve the puzzle Tom left behind and finish the task? Simple Words Books help struggling readers become better readers, without tears. Our decodable books support improving their reading fluency, comprehension and confidence. In our books, we use decodable, high frequency and basic sight words that early readers can easily decode. Our short sentences and paragraphs make it easier for our readers to flow through the chapters. The entire word list and word frequency are included in the book and on our website (simplewordsbooks.com). We recommend the use of this list as a tool to determine the reading level match and pre-practice with the reader to improve fluency. Check out Simple Words Books at simplewordsbooks.com and Join READlexia Book Club for FREE to receive FREE decodable materials and special offers. Our promise is not to let dyslexia and other learning differences deprive kids of learning the love of reading. This book is Dysleixie Font version.

A man in black robs King Chid's ring when the ring goes on display. Luckily, Mick and Liv are at the display on a class trip at the right time. But they get tricked while they try to help the cops with the theft.Mick does not believe the legend of King Chid's ring. Liv does not understand why a ring that brings bad luck would sell for $35,000,000.If the legend is true, who will get this toxic ring's bad luck next?