Storybook Reader #2 Kindergarten Second Edition Sing Spell Read and Write

by Modern Curriculum Press

Saves time. You have more time for teaching because we've provided all the lessons for you.Is convenient and economical. You can teach your students all seven areas of Language Arts in integrated, easy-to-use lessons with the purchase of a single program.Appeals to all learning styles. The multisensory instruction is effective with all learning modalities - auditory, visual, and kinesthetic.Builds a larger vocabulary. Your students will master a 1,500 word reading and spelling vocabulary.Instills confidence. Your students will learn word attack skills and decoding techniques to correctly sound out and pronounce 97% of all the words in the English language.Enhances reading comprehension. Sequential storybooks and comprehension questions ensure that your students will really understand what they read.Promotes language proficiency. The integrated lessons help students use language proficiently whether reading, writing, or speaking.

Paperback

Published January 1, 2000

About the author

Modern Curriculum Press, Inc., (MCP) was an educational materials publisher founded in Berea in 1963 by Alice Lorenz-Baer to provide reading programs for kindergarten through third grade stressing the teaching of phonetic word-attack skills, a strategy which had been almost completely discarded since the 1920s for the sight-word approach. A reaction among teachers in favor of the older method enabled MCP to begin doubling its sales yearly from the beginning. In 1971 it merged with Reardon, Baer & Company, the STRONGSVILLE educational publishing concern of Baer's husband, F. William Baer. MCP grew into a sixty-five worker operation and opened an office in Toronto. Some twenty corporations made approaches to acquire the company, which was finally sold in 1972 to Esquire, Inc. Mrs. Baer continued to manage the company until her retirement in 1975.

Esquire in turn was bought by Gulf-Western, which evolved into Paramount Communications, one of the industry's leading publishers of books and educational materials. In 1994, Paramount was acquired by Viacom, which subsequently moved MCP operations to New Jersey and Indiana. MCP became an imprint of Simon and Schuster, Viacom's U.S. publishing unit. In 1998, Simon and Schuster sold its educational, professional, and reference units, including MCP, to Pearson PLC, a London-based publishing firm. Pearson incorporated MCP into a new operation, called Pearson Education. As of 2006, textbooks bearing the MCP imprint continued to be published by Pearson.

Reviews

[Rebecca · Rating 4 out of 5]

We really enjoyed this K series of readers. There is enough repetition to gain mastery but not too much that you feel like the English language is being mangled.

The children love the consistency of seeing the same characters show up in each other's stories and like the simple yet interesting illustrations.

[Jenna · Rating 3 out of 5]

The simple text of this reader helps children to fully understand the content of the story. In addition, the text helps the children to learn simple vocabulary and rhyming words. This story would be great for Kindergarten students!