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This self-teaching instruction workbook helps with pronouncing consonants (including letter blends), vowels (long, short, and vowel groups), and words with multiple syllables; describes the relationship between phonics and spelling; gives examples of tricky proper nouns; and more. This book avoids technical jargon (like diphthongs and phonemes) so that people of all ages and backgrounds can understand the ideas.

This self-teaching instruction audiobook (in American English) helps with: spelling vowels (long, short, and vowel groups); spelling consonants (including blends); words with multiple syllables; distinguishing between homophones; examples of tricky proper nouns; and much more. This book avoids technical jargon (like diphthongs and phonemes) so that people of all ages and backgrounds can understand the ideas. This makes it handy for English as a second language (ESL) students, or anyone who isn’t fluent with the technical vocabulary conventionally used to teach spelling and phonics.

Something bad is happening at Little Strangehaven Primary. What are the peculiar SHIVERS that keep striking the school, bringing Strangeness in their wake—from uncontrollable ballroom dancing to an attack by military chickens? Spy-detective Agatha Topps is determined to find out. She's the only person who doesn't forget the Strangeness as soon as it's over. At least, until new boy Lenny Tuchus turns up and remembers, too. Their spy-detectoring leads them to the Book of Chaos, an ancient text which has been hidden away in the Room of Forbidden and Dangerous Books.

Can you figure out what comes next without having to start from the very beginning? With What Comes Before / After?, children will build their kindergarten and first grade thinking skills; learn basic concepts, including the alphabet, counting, days of the week, months of the year, basic shapes, and planets; learn from pattern puzzles and thinking puzzles.

Freddie Yates likes facts. Just not the one staring him in the face - that his secret plan is not, in fact, secret. Because, Freddie's journey wasn't meant to involve Big Trev and the onion-eating competition or the loo-exploding pear-and-potato turnovers. And Freddie definitely didn't expect to end up, with his two best friends, on national television in a supergirl costume.

Fakten sind alles für den elfjährigen Freddie Yates. Und so beschließt er nach dem Tod seiner Großmutter, den Fakten zu folgen und seinen leiblichen Vater aufzuspüren. Gemeinsam mit seinen besten Freunden Ben und Charlie begibt er sich auf einen irrwitzigen Fahrrad-Trip kreuz und quer durch Wales. Freddie erwartet keine Wunder - die gibt es schließlich nicht.

After being humiliated by a badly behaved squirrel on national television, Marvin has vowed NEVER to perform magic in public again. But when he acquires a mysterious book that promises to show those with the gift of magic how to use it properly, his best friend Asha persuades him to make a comeback in the school talent show. Watch Marvellous Marvin take to the stage to demonstrate the magic that can be found in true friendship!