OPUS N’ BILL A WISH FOR WINGS THAT WORK: DVD: 24 min; Take your family to Bloom County, a whimsical, wacky cartoon treat that’s as funny for grownups as it is fun for kids! From Pulitzer Prize-winning author/artist Berkeley Breathed, it’s a merry, madcap romp with Opus the earthbound penguin and his brain-fried feline cohort, Bill. Wrestling with an unfulfilled wish to soar through the air like any other self-respecting bird, the plucky penguin decides there’s only one person who can make his aeronautic dream come true: Father Christmas. Bill the Cat coughs up a wild idea that just may bring a holiday miracle, but when ol’ St. Nick finds himself in hot water on December 24th, the fate of Christmas itself suddenly depends on the kind of heroism that only comes in a penguin-sized package! Will Opus come to the rescue and learn the value of being true to oneself?
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POETRY-CAPTURING THE MOMENT WITH US POET LAUREATE TED KOOSER & FRIENDS DVD: Nebraskan Ted Kooser, the 13th US Poet Laureate, shows us the beauty in the ordinary through his poetry. This educational DVD provides multiple venues for educators, students, and all of us to experience poetry in an everyday way.
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POETRY HALL OF FAME SERIES:58 min each, series of 4 VHS: Simply an incredible collection of great writers, and a wonderful journey through great poems. Within these words one may find all the love, joy, hope, fear, enchantment and humor that is the human spirit:
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Volume 1: William Shakespeare (St. Crispin’s Day Speech King Henry V, Act IV, Scene 3), Carl Sandburg (Gone), Carl Hines, Jr (Jazz Poem), Robert Hillyer (Miss Helen Lang), Annie Sexton (And One For My Dame), Leigh Hunt (Abou Ben Adhem), Samuel Taylor Coleridge (The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Part II), Aphra Behn (The Willing Mistress), Roger McGough (Summer with Monica #1 excerpt), Christopher Marlowe (The Passionate Shepherd to His Love), Sir Walter Raleigh (The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd), Edna St. Vincent Millay (Modern Declaration), Rudyard Kipling (The Betrothed excerpt), Walt Whitman (As I Ponder’d in Silence & The Artilleryman’s Vision excerpt), Wilfred Owen (Disabled), Siegfried Sassoon (Aftermath), Emily Dickinson (Dear March-Come In), Stephanie Simpson (Scrapbook of a Summer Evening excerpt), Robert Frost (Tree at My Window & Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening), Geoffrey Chaucer (The Canterbury Tales Prologue), Ogden Nash (Peekaboo, I Almost See You & A Drink With Something in it), Richard Armour (Authentic Antique), Anonymous (The Discriminating Pig), John Milton (Paradise Lost, Book VII excerpt), Stephen Spender (I Think Continually of Those), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Adonais excerpt), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Day is Done).
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Volume II: John Masefield (Sea Fever), Edmund Spenser (Amoretti, Sonnett 75 One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Stand), Percy Bysshe Shelley (Ozymandias), John Keats (When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be), William Shakespeare (Sonnet CXVI & Let Me Not To The Marriage of Tue Minds), Emily Dickinson (I Swell in Possibility), George Herbert (The Altar), Sir Walter Scott (Song: On the Lifting of the Banner of the House of Buccleuch, at a Great Football Match on Caterhaugh excerpt), Samuel W. Allen (To Satch), A.P. Herbert (Mullion), Roger McGough (Cousin Caroline, Uncle Jed, Uncle Malcolm, Aunt Ermintrude, Albert Robinson), Alexander Pope (Epilogue to the Satires, Dialogue II), Edwin Markham (The Man With the Hoe excerpt), Anne Bradstreet (To My Dear and Loving Husband), Judith Viorst (True Love), Conrad Aiken (The Quarrel), Lord Byron (Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Canto the Second, XXXV Tis an Old Lesson), Sylvia Plath (The Applicant), William Blake (Vision of Sir Launfal: And What is So Rare As A Day in June?), Amy Lowell (Patterns), Rovert Lowell (For Aunt Sarah), Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnett: XLIII How Do I Love Thee?), Robert Browning (Prospice), William Cowper, Hartley Coleridge, Eugene Field (3 Transitions of Ode XXXVIII by Horace), Lord Byron (Written After Swimming From Sestos to Abydos), Joseph S. Newman (Hero and Leander), Willima butler Yeats (When You Are Old), Thomas Hardy (Afterwards), Edgar Lee Masters (Spoon River Anthology: The Hill excerpt), Phyllis McGinley (Text for Today), e.e. cummings (sweet spring is your time), Roger McGough (Goodbat Nightman), Edith Sitwell (Façade: Tarantella)
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Volume III: William Wordsworth (An Evening Walk excerpt) & Enough of Climbing Toil), Archibald MacLeish (Ars Poetica), Louis Simpson (The Mannequins), William Carlos Williams (The Artist), Alan Dugan (Teacher’s Vacation Lament in the Country), Alfred Lord Tennyson (The Princess Part III & The Splendor Falls on Castle Walls), Edwin Arlington Robinson (Miniver Cheevy), Edgar Allan Poe (To Helen), Theodore Roethke (Night Journey), John Gould Fletcher (Down the Mississippi), Gerard Manley Hopkins (Pied Beauty), Jesse Stuart (Robert Diesel), Jonathan Swift (Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift), Mark Twain (Stephen Dowling Bots excerpt & Hamlet’s Soliloquy), Omar Khayyam (The Rubaiyat excerpt translated by Edward Fitzgerald), Rihaku (Li-Po) (The River Merchant’s Wife: A Letter Translated by Ezra Pound), Yevgeny Yevtushenko (In a Steelworker’s Home translated by John Updike), C. Day Lewis (In the Shelter), Sir John Betjeman (A Subaltern’s Love-song), William Dickey (Resolving Doubts), Robert Louis Stevenson (Romance excerpt), Thomas Moore (Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms), Anonymous (There Is A Lady Sweet and Kind), W.H. Auden (Carry Her Over the Water), Oscar Hammerstein (All The Things You Are), Edgar “Yip” Hammerstein (Brother, Can You Spare A Dime?), A.A. Milne (The King’s Breakfast), Edward Lear (The Owl and the Pussycat), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (The Rainy Day), The Bible (King James Version) (The Song of Solomon II), Alexander Pope (Couplets), William Shakespeare (Macbeth Act V Scene 5 & Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow), Anonymous (Familiar Lines).
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Volume IV: Alfred Lord Tennyson (The Charge of the Light Brigade), William Shakespeare (As You Like It Act II Scene 7 & All the World’s A Stage), Thomas Bailey Aldrich (The Menu), John Dryden (Happy the Man), Peter Motteux (Slaves to London I’ll Deceive You), Ted Hughes (April Birthday), William Wordsworth (Composed by the Side of Grasmere Lake), T.S. Eliot (Gus: The Theatre Cat), N.H. Brettell (Giraffes), Bayard Taylor (A Night With a Wolf), Thomas Hardy (Ah, Are You Digging on My Grave?), D.H. Lawrence (Autumn at Taos), Robert V. Carr (The Old Cowboy’s Lament), Dubose Heyward (Dusk), Matthew Arnold (Dover Beach), Philip Larkin (Annus Mirabilis), Jenny Joseph (Warning), Anonymous (The Old Farmer and His Young Wife), Sheldon Harnick (The Shape of Things excerpt), Roger McGough (Summer With Monica - #38), Emily Bronte (Mid the Mist Upon the Hill), Ernest Dowson (Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae), John Donne (Holy Sonnets Number 10: Death, Be Not Proud), Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard excerpt), Christina Rossetti (Song), Dylan Thomas (Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night), Robert Louis Stevenson (Requiem), William butler Yeats (Under Ben Bulben – VI), Robert Herrick (To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time), Robert Burns (A Red Red Rose), Edmund Waller (Go, Lovely Rose), Dorothy Parker (One Perfect Rose), William Shakespeare (King Richard II, Act III Scene 2: Let’s Talk of Graves, of Worms and Epitaphs), Herbert Read (My Company – Part I), Phyllis McGinley (Volunteer Fireman), Langston Hughes (I Dream a World), William Shakespeare (The Tempest Act IV Scent I Our Revels Now Are Ended)
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PUMPKIN CIRCLE: THE STORY OF A GARDEN VHS & DVD: 20 min, grades K-6: Danny Glover narrates this story about life in a pumpkin patch in this presentation of the book by George Levenson.
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READ ON FROM COVER TO COVER: 16- 15 min lessons, grades 4-5: John Robbins will introduce sixteen new books chosen to broaden each student’s reading abilities, experience and appreciation for reading. Lessons include:
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McMummy
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Number the Stars
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Strider
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Sing Down the Moon
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Me, Mop and the Moondance kid
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A Jar of Dreams
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Knights of the Kitchen Table; The Not-So-Jolly Roger
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Teacher’s Pet; Atta boy Sam
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El Guero
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On the Banks of Plum Creek
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Chevrolet Saturdays
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Pigs Might Fly
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Hatchel; Hay Meadow
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Daphne’s Book
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Dragonwings
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Shades of gray
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READING FOR CHILDREN SERIES: 3- 23 min lessons, grades K-4: Join the radio hosts of WORD as they share the joy of the written word, while exploring strategies that can help them become better readers. Lessons include;
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Identifying Words
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Identifying Letters & Sounds
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Reading Comprehension
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READING RAINBOW: DVD & VHS: Reading Rainbow is a children's series designed to promote reading comprehension in elementary school age children. Host LeVar Burton introduces the theme of the episode and the book to be profiled in an animated story using the illustrations from the book and narrated by a celebrity. After the story is finished, feature stories in the same subject as the book are profiled, and youth reviewers give critiques of three additional books. LeVar usually introduces the children critics by saying, "but you don't have to take my word for it..." Lessons include:
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Mystery on the Docks by Thacher Hurd
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A Chair For My Mother by Vera B. Williams
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Paul Bunyan retold by Steven Kellogg
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The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
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Watch The Stars Come Out by Riki Levinson
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Hill of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis
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Animal Café by John Stadler
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Alistair in Outer Space by Marilyn Sadler
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Feelings by Aliki
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The Lotus Seed by Sherry Garland
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Mama Don’t Allow by Thacher Hurd
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Space Case by Edward Marshall
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The Milk Makers by Gail Gibbons
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Imogene’s Antlers by David Small
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Germs Make Me Sick by Melvin Berger
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Abiyoyo by Pete Seeger
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The Life Cycle of the Honeybee by Paula Z. Hogan
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Gila Monsters Meet You At The Airport by Marjorie Weinman Shamat
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Chicken’s Aren’t the Only Ones by Ruth Heller
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The Runaway Duck by David Lyon
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A Three Hat Day by Laura Geringer
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Rumpelstiltskin retold by Paul O. Zelinsky
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Best Friends by Steven Kellogg
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Meanwhile Back At The Ranch by Trinka Hakes Noble
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The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush by Tomie dePaola
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My Little Island by Frane Lessac
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The Bionic Bunny Show by Marc Brown
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Bugs by Nancy Winslow Parker & Joan Richards Wright
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The Robbery at the Diamond Dong Diner by Eileen Christelow
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The Gift of the Sacred Dog by Paul Goble
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Brush by Pere Calders
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The Purple Coat by Amy Hest
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Barn Dance by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
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Duncan and Dolores by Barbara Samuels
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Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin Jr. & John Archambault
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Mummies Made in Egypt by Aliki
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Humphrey the Lost Whale: A True Story by Wendy Tokuda & Richard Hall
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Stay Away From the Junkyard by Tricia Tusa
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Little Nino’s Pizza by Karen Barbour
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Dinosaur Bob & His Adventures With the Family Lazardo by William Joyce
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Dive to The Coral Reefs by Elizabeth Taynton, Paul Erickson, Less Kaufman
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Desert Giant: The World of the Saguaro’s Cactus by Barbara Bash
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Tooth-Gnasher Superflash by Daniel Pinkwater
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Bored—Nothing to Do! By Peter Spier
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Mrs. Katz & Tush by Patricia Polacco
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Sports Pages by Arnold Adoff
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Jack, the Seal & the Sea by Gerald Aschenbrenner
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The Bicycle Man by Allen Say
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Florence & Eric Take the Cake by Jocelyn Wild
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Paper Crane By Molly Bang
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Sunken Treasure by Gail Gibbons
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The Adventures of Taxi Dog by Debra & Sal Barracca
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Galimoto by Karen Lynn Williams
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Fox on the Job by James Marshall
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Opt: An Illusionary Tale by Arlene & Joseph Baum
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Raccoons & Ripe Corn by Jim Arnosky
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Kate Shelley & The Midnight Express by Margaret K. Wetterer
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Snowy Day: Stories & Poems edited by Caroline Feller Bauer
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Tar Beach by Faith Ringold
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The Wall by Eve Bunting
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Sam the Sea Cow by Francine Jacobs
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Rechenka’s Eggs by Patricia Polacco
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Sophie & Lou by Petra Mathers
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Come a Tide by George Ella Lyon
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The Piggy in the Puddle by Charlotte Pomerantz
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Seahorse Surprises by Rose Wyler
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Through Moon & Stars & Night Skies by Ann Turner
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Berloiz the bear by Jan Brett
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The Furry News: How to Make a Newspaper by Loreen Leedy
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Borreguita & the Coyote by Verna Aardema
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The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer
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Silent Lotus by Jeanne M. Lee
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Laura Joffe Numeroff
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Is This A House for Hermit Crab? By Megan McDonald
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Liang & The Magic Paintbrush by Demi
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And Still the Turtle Watched by Sheila MacGill-Callahan
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June 29, 1999 by David Wiesner
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Nosey Mrs. Rat by Jeffrey Allen
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Summer by Ron Hirschi
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Once There Was A Tree by Natalia Romanova
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Appelemando’s Dreams by Patricia Polacco
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Hail to Mail by Samuel Marshak
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Stellaluna by Janell Cannon
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My Shadow by Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Wonderful Towers of Watts by Patricia Zelver
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Martha Speaks by Susan Meddaugh
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Alejanedro’s gifts by Richard E. Albert
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The Sign Painter’s Dream by Roger Roth
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Archibald Frisby by Michael Chesworth
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Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
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Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting
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Uncle Jed’s Barbershop by Margaree King Mitchell
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How to Make An Apple Pie & See The World by Marjorie Priceman
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Owen by Kevin Henkes
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Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
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How Much Is A Million? By David M. Schwartz
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Always My Dad by Sharon Dennis Wyeth
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Bread Is For Eating by David & Phyllis Gershator
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Hotel Animal by Keith Duquette & Istran Banyai
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Someplace Else by Carol P. Saul
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Zin! Zin! Zin! By Lloyd Moss
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Hip Cat by Jonathan London
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Regina’s Big Mistake by Marissa Moss
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Giving Thanks: A Native American Good Morning Message by Chief Jake Swamp
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The Carousel by Liz Rosenberg
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Math Cure by John Scieszka
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My Life With The Wave by Octavio Paz
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Saturday Sancocho by Leyla Tores
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Worksong by Gary Paulsen
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The Shaman’s Apprentice by Lynne Cherry & Mark J. Photkin
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Pet Stories: You Don’t Have To Walk by Marc Brown, Syd Hoff, Cynthia Rylant
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Lemonade For Sale by Tricia Tusa, Stuart Murphy
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Ruth Law Thrills A Nation by Don Brown
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The Secret Shortcut by Mark Teague
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My America: A Poetry Atlas of the United States by Lee Bennett Hopkins
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Badger’s Parting Gifts by Susan Varley
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The Tin Forest by Helen Ward
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Max by Bob Graham
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Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
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Our Big Home: An Earth Poem by Linda Glaser
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Gregory, the Terrible Eater by Mitchell Shamat
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Three By The Sea by Edward Marshall
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The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate the Wash by Trinka Hakes Noble
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Simon’s Book by Henrik Drescher
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Ox-cart Man by Donald Hall
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Keep the Lights Burning Abbie By Peter & Connie Roop
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Digging Up Dinosaurs By Aliki
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3 Days On A River In A Red Canoe by Vera B. Williams
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Bringing The Rain To Kapiti Plain by Verna Aardema
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Louis The Fish by Arthur Yorinks
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Visiting Day By Jacqueline Woodson
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Unique Monique By Maria Rousaki
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Mr. George Baker Amy Hest
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Beegu by Alexis Deacon
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Two Old Potatoes and Me By John Coy
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READY FOR PHONICS SERIES: 4- 30 min, grades Pre K-2: Familiar fables with endearing characters come to life through video animation. Music and songs combine with sound teaching methods to make learning to read fun for children. Lessons include:
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Musical Alphabet Review: 3 little Pigs, sounds of Pp, Cc, Kk, Nn, and Ii. The Little Red Hen, Sounds of Hh, Jj, Bb, Ll, and Aa. The three Billy Goats Gruff, sounds of Gg, Dd, Ff, Mm, and Oo.
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Little Red Riding Hood sounds of Rr, Qq, Zz, Vv, Yy, and Uu. The Shoemaker and the Elves, sounds of Ss, Ww, Tt, Ee, and Xx. Sight words, numbers song, words for numbers, words for colors.
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Long vowels, short vowels, short vowel story, “Y” as a vowel, word families, 110 most used words.
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The World is Round song, capitalization, periods and question marks, plural “s”, silent “e”, side by side vowels, blends, digraphs, bossy “r”.
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REVERSE THE CURSE: 33- 15 min lessons, grade 5: Reverse the Curse is set among the Egyptian pyramids. Lessons encourage student reading and creative expression while presenting basic literary principles such as character, style, plot and theme. Lessons include:
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Oral vs. written
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Plot: Problem, Solution
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Plot: Order
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Plot: Different Order
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Plot: More Different Orders
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Theme
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Theme: Perspective
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Theme: Descriptive
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Summary of Plot & Theme
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Main Character
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Foil
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Character Types
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Unique Characters
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Unique Characters: Animals
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Summary of Character
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Setting
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Setting: Time Past
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Setting: Time Future
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Setting: Time Present
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Setting: Culture
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Summary of Setting
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Style
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Style: Word Choice
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Style: Mood
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Style: Point of View
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Poetry
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Drama
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Information Books
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Summary of Style
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Summary: Oral
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Summary: Written
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Summary: Poetry
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Summary: Drama
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RIKKI TIKKI TAVI: grades K-4: Story by Rudyard Kipling, the efforts of a frisky mongoose sworn to defend his adopted family from a garden full of cobras.
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SAVAGE SAM: DVD: 104 min: Now discover what happens next in Savage Sam, the sequel to Walt Disney’s classic adventure Old Yeller, where adopting a new pup sets the stage for more thrills in the untamed West. With his two young masters Travis and Arliss Coates (Tommy Kirk, Kevin Corcoran), gentle and true-blue Sam faces even greater dangers than Yeller. From the ferocious attacks of wolves and wildcats to tracking renegade wrongdoers, our four-legged hero proves his pedigree. Savage Sam is a compelling story of love, devotion and trust that is sure to win your heart. Also on the DVD is Old Yeller.
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SCHOLASTIC HOLIDAY COLLECTION: 14- 10 min lessons, grades K-2. Lessons Include:
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Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore VHS & DVD
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Max’s Christmas by Rosemary Wells
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Morris’s Disappearing Bag by Rosemary Wells
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Owl Moon
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Giving Thanks by Jake Swamp
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Star Spangled Banner by Peter Spier
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Seven Candles of Kwanzaa by Andrea Davis
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SCHOLASTIC VIDEO COLLECTION: grades K-4: Video adaptations of award winning, classic children’s picture books. Beloved stories come alive in a celebration of friendship, learning and growing up. Lessons include:
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Maurice Sendak Library: VHS & DVD
The Nutshell Kids
Where the Wild Things Are
In The Kitchen
Getting to Know Maurice Sendak
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Chicka Chicka Boom Boom:
Trashy Town
Rosie’s Walk
The Caterpillar and the Pollywog
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Kevin Henkes Stories: VHS & DVD Chrysanthemum
Owen
A Weekend with Wendell
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Harold and the Purple Crayon: VHS & DVD
A Picture for Harold’s Room Harold’s Fairy Tale
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Miss Nelson Has A Field Day: VHS & DVD
Miss Nelson Is Back
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William Steig Stories: VHS & DVD
Pete’s a Pizza
Doctor De Soto
The Amazing Bone
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Click, Clack Moo, Cows That Type: VHS & DVD The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate The Wash
The Pigs’ Wedding
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Good Night Gorilla:
How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?
Happy Birthday Moon
The Napping House
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Harry The Dirty Dog: VHS & DVD
Officer Buckle & Gloria
Angus and the Ducks
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Ezra Jack Keats Stories: VHS & DVD
The Snowy Day
Whistle for Willie
Peter’s Chair
Pet Show
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Max’s Chocolate Chicken: VHS & DVD
Each Peach Pear Plum
Picnic
The Circus Baby
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The Day Jimmy’s Boa Ate The Wash DVD & VHS:
Wings: A Tale of Two Chickens; Morris’s Disappearing Bag
Doctor De Soto
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The Amazing Bone:
John Brown, Rose & Midnight Cat
A Picture for Harold’s Room
The Trip
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Corduroy: VHS & DVD
Here Comes the Cat
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Is Your Mama A Llama?:
Leo the Late Bloomer
Elizabethi’s Doll
Goose
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Curious George Rides A Bike: VHS & DVD
Great White Man Eating Shark
Flossie and the Fox
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Make Way For Ducklings:
Blueberries for Sal
Time of Wonder
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Strega Nona:
Joseph Had a Little Overcoat
Stone Soup
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There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Fly:
Antarctic Antics
Musical Max
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How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night?:
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