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Sound Learning Audiobook Collection Lists & Samples
Sound Learning Audiobook Collection Lists & Samples Introduction to Summer Listening “School's out for summer” proclaims the lyrics of a popular 1970s song by Alice Cooper. Kids are thrilled, but teachers and parents want to be sure kids don't fall prey to the dreaded summer slide, a term researchers have given to studies that show that students can lose one to three months of hard-won reading skills during the school break. How can parents and other caring adults help kids keep literacy skills strong? Dr. Teri Lesesne (“Summertime and the Reading Is Required?” Knowledge Quest, v. 43, no. 5, p 46-49), children's literature and reading expert, as well as an enthusiastic audiobook advocate, recommends that we “CARE about readers” by offering kids “Choice, Access, Response, and Enthusiasm.” Lesesne’s suggestion is echoed by Search Institute, creator of a framework of 40 Developmental Assets for young people that are key to school success and development into successful and contributing adults. Search Institute names reading for pleasure as a core asset and suggests creating a family tradition of reading together each day, with all screen media— television, cell phones, tablets, computers—turned off. How can families follow the advice of Dr. Lesesne and Search Institute? Try the pleasurable magic of audiobooks! Summer’s here, and the time is right for listening as families spend lots of time in the car: from pool to practice field or on trips to cross-country treks. Audiobooks turn those hectic travel times into shared literary experiences that banish boredom. Researchers have proven that audiobooks increase a listener’s vocabulary, comprehension skills, and fluency while educators advocate audiobooks for all ages, as listening is the fundamental language art which serves as the basis of reading, writing, and speaking skills. -
Adventure and Survival
ADVENTURE AND SURVIVAL Location Author Title YA BROWSING B Becker, Helaine Trouble in the Hills After a fight with his father, Cam takes to the hills that surround his small, mountain community where an error in judgment leads to a serious mountain biking accident. As he slowly makes his way back to town over cold, inhospitable terrain, he encounters a trio of kidnappers, the girl who escaped them, his former best friend, and a gang of drug runners. YA BOD Bodeen, S.A. The Compound After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all. Sequel: The Fallout. YA BOD Bodeen, S.A. The Raft Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters. Fighting for her life, the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft, and that's when the real terror begins. YA BRA Braun, Melinda Stranded A year after the death of her sister, Emma ventures with a hiking group into the dangerous woods of the Boundary Waters. But after a freak windstorm kills their guide, the group must endure the wrath of Mother Nature--and each other--if they hope to make it out of the woods alive. YA BRA Bray, Libba Beauty Queens When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition. -
Transportation: Teaching History with a Theme
Transportation: Teaching History with a Theme Cynthia W. Resor Teaching American History October 25, 2013 Monticello to Burnside KY Stagecoach, 1906 Transportation themes • Transportation affects everything but is rarely referenced • Local VS Federal VS Private – Who should pay for transportation infrastructure? • How transportation has CHANGED the landscape • The culture of major transportation routes – Stories and myths Sources for this presentation • Capturing the Horizon: The Historical Geography of Transportation since the Transportation Revolution of the 16th Century – By James E. Vance • Common Landscape of America, 1580-1845 – by John R. Stilgoe • Wicked River, The Mississippi When it Last Ran Wild – By Lee Sandlin (2010) • Internal Improvement, National Public Works and the Promise of Popular Government in the Early United States – John Lauritz Larson (2001) • Flush Times and Fever Dreams, A Story of Capitalism and Slavery in the Age of Jackson – By Joshua D. Rothman (2012) Transportation in Kentucky Monticello – Burnside Pike (HWY 90today) - 1913 From the Danville Advocate- Messenger • 1913 • The Kentucky Commissioner of Roads has designated Oct. 24 and 25 for local residents to work on their county's roads. The areas are to be divided into districts, with designated residents as superintendents. These superintendents are to see every person in their district and get them to work on bettering the roads. People in the city are urged to help with the work or contribute money, and automobile owners should haul workers and tools -
Ebook Viva Jacquelina!: Bloody Jack, Book 10 Freeware Audie Award Winner, Teens, 2014 the Vivacious Jacky Faber Return in the 10Th Tale in L
Ebook Viva Jacquelina!: Bloody Jack, Book 10 Freeware Audie Award Winner, Teens, 2014 The vivacious Jacky Faber return in the 10th tale in L. A. Meyer's Bloody Jack series! Once again under the thumb of British Intelligence, Jacky is sent to Spain to spy for the crown during the early days of the 19th-century Peninsular War. She finds herself in the company of guerilla freedom fighters, poses for the famous artist Goya, runs with the bulls, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a caravan of gypsies...all while hoping to one day reunite with her beloved Jamie Fletcher. Audible Audio Edition Listening Length: 9 hours and 29 minutes Program Type: Audiobook Version: Unabridged Publisher: Listen & Live Audio, Inc. Audible.com Release Date: November 14, 2012 Whispersync for Voice: Ready Language: English ASIN: B00A7G74FG Best Sellers Rank: #16 in Books > Teens > Literature & Fiction > Action & Adventure > Pirates #65 in Books > Teens > Historical Fiction > Military #93 in Books > Teens > Historical Fiction > Europe It was great hanging out with my dear old friend Bloody Jack, but over all I felt like this book lacked the same spirit of adventure of the previous ones. Too many new characters, not enough of the old ones. Enjoyable, but mostly the book just felt like a set up for the next one. Jacky is the BEST!! I LOVED the parts that touch on reality and history, for instance, she works for Francisco Goya and participates in one of his famous paintings, which you can look up online or in art history books.....LA Meyer does a great job playing with this! This was one of the best of his latter books, not TOO much sex and misbehaviour. -
Saint Ann's School, 2009 Saint Ann's School, 2009 Suggested
Saint Ann’s School, 2009 Suggested Summer Reading List for students entering fifth & sixth grades Here are some great books for summer. Read them on the beach, in your room, on the plane—anywhere you can hold a book. When you come back to school in the fall, visit the Saint Ann’s Library and let us know which of them you enjoyed most. —With love from your librarians: Denise, Ragan, Maria, and Eva FYI : This list is divided into five sections—Series, Classic Fiction, Newer Fiction, Nonfiction, Graphic Novels, and Hands-On. Series Alex Rider by Anthony Horowitz Following the untimely death of the uncle who was raising him, teenager Alex Rider is recruited into a shocking family business—spying for the British government. The Series: Stormbraker, Point Blank, Skeleton Key, Eagle Strike, Scorpia, Ark Angel Artemis Fowl by Eoin Colfer When a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the little people fight back with magic, technology, and a very nasty troll. The Series: Artemis Fowl, The Arctic Incident, The Eternity Code, The Opal Deception. The Lost Colony, The Time Paradox Bloody Jack by L.A. Meyer Jacky Farber loves being a ship’s boy aboard the HMS Dolphin. It’s a vast improvement over Jacky’s previous life—scavenging for food with other orphans on the dangerous streets of 18th Century London. There’s just one catch: Jacky is a girl. The Series : Bloody Jack, in Curse of the Blue Tattoo, Under the Jolly Roger, In the Belly of the Bloodhound, Mississippi Jack, and My Bonny Light Horseman The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.