Readers will become enveloped in this illuminating volume on stars. Striking full-page photographs accompany basic text, in both English and standard Latin-American Spanish, and take readers on a journey into outer space. A picture glossary and index supplement the text and are excellent resources for any reader.

Describes stars, how they are born, where the live, as well as the different types of stars that exist.

As three children look up in the night sky at the stars, three stars look down at the Earth at the children! The stars twinkle and the children twirl as they make wishes on each other! Students can learn the classic nursery rhymes "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and "Star Light, Star Bright" while acting out this clever story based on the rhymes. This Spanish-translated script includes six roles, each of which match a different reading level. Teachers can apply differentiation and English language learner strategies to the script to assign roles in a way that accommodates all students, whether they are struggling or proficient readers. All students can engage in one activity together, gaining confidence in their reading fluency and feeling successful, regardless of their current reading ability! An accompanying song and poem provide additional resources to help students build fluency! Along with reading fluency improvement, students will also practice reading aloud, interacting cooperatively, and using expressive voices and gestures by performing this charming story together. This dynamic, colorful script is sure to benefit a classroom of varied readers! This 6-Pack includes six copies of this title, a lesson plan, and an audio CD.

The book that inspired the new film A Million Miles Away. Born into a family of migrant workers, toiling in the fields by the age of six, Jose M. Hernàndez dreamed of traveling through the night skies on a rocket ship. Reaching for the Stars is the inspiring story of how he realized that dream, becoming the first Mexican-American astronaut. Hernàndez didn't speak English till he was 12, and his peers often joined gangs, or skipped school. And yet, by his twenties he was part of an elite team helping develop technology for the early detection of breast cancer. He was turned down by NASA eleven times on his long journey to donning that famous orange space suit. Hernàndez message of hard work, education, perseverance, of "reaching for the stars," makes this a classic American autobiography.

Tiny loves being with Tower, and Tower loves being with Tiny. They share many happy, silly days together. They wish they could have more. But Tower's body is getting ready to stop working; soon he will die. Where will Tower go when he dies? Tiny finds the words to explain in a way that comforts them both. This bilingual children's book presents love, death, and life after loss with a gentle tone, 30 pages of heartwarming illustrations, and easy to understand language (in English and Spanish). Suitable for persons ages two and older, this story aims to help even the youngest of readers cope with the loss of an adult caregiver, family member, or close friend. Through words and tender visuals, Tower in the Stars reassures children that love continues after death and shows tangible ways in which a child can honor the memory of an adult who has died. This book also features a "final goodbye" conversation between an adult and a child.Readers Can CustomizeThe main characters are dogs who are gender neutral in appearance.Readers can personalize story and substitute names of their choice in place of Tiny and Tower. (Note that the text identifies Tiny and Tower as male characters; readers can substitute female pronouns if needed). The adult character, "Tower" is old enough to drive a car but otherwise there are no age references, making it possible to read "Tower" as any adult who has had a close relationship with a child throughout the child's life.

"I wanted to touch the stars, porque there they were...right there outside my window like pearls of dreams floating in the darkened sky. Every star a dream, every dream a story waiting to be told." Tocando las Estrellas (Star Touching) is a story about dreaming and reaching, imagining a story for every creature, to be told in every star, and wondering which, of the many, many, many stars up in the sky might be your own. Follow along our narrator's midnight quest for how to touch the stars, guided by four other-than-human kindred souls- Gato, Owl, Skunk and Comadreja -in this partially bilingual ("Spanglish") tale of wandering to a far 'without', on the way toward discovering a way 'within'.