MC Comics: The Secret of Mystery Island, Set 3, Sampler Pack

by Modern Curriculum Press (Contributor)

Learning comes to life with MC Comics. This skills-based comic book series helps students -- especially ESL, below-level, and reluctant readers -- boost reading and writing skills, build vocabulary, and best of all, think of reading as an adventure. The six sets, each containing four parts, are packed with adventure plots told in comic-book format, real-life dialogue, colorful pictures and dynamic, recurring, multi-cultural characters who seem to leap right off the page. A different, suspenseful "cliff hanger" at the end of Parts 1, 2, and 3 of each set motivates students to read on. The first book in each set provides an at-a-glance summary of how to read a comic to promote a successful learning experience.Jazz's father invites our heroes to lunch on Mystery Island as a reward for their hard work planning a fund raiser to save Park City's museum. But the kids get more than just a good meal -- they discover fossilized dinosaur eggs that they bring home with them. But when thieves steal the eggs, Darryl, Chris, Twig, and Jazz do everything in their power to get them back

56 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1999

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.