New Releases by Jan Smith

This beginners phonics leveled activity book features a particular phonetic sound with its different spellings. The three stories in each book rhyme, and the phonetic sound being taught is underlined. The Frog on a Log features the short vowel sounds of o

"Leaving his family homestead in Minnesota, [Nivek James] becomes a newspaper correspondent during the Spanish-American War. Together with his boyhood friends, Wing, an Ojibwa Indian, and Jesse, from Medora, North Dakota, the young men travel across country by horseback, train, and stagecoach on their journey to join the Rough Riders and Theodore Roosevelt...."-From pg. [4] of cover.

This beginners phonics leveled activity book features a particular phonetic sound with its different spellings. The three stories in each book rhyme, and the phonetic sound being taught is underlined. The Crocodile Ride features the long vowel sounds: i-e

In my dissertation, I broaden Rosenblatt's theory to include and emphasize the intellectual dimension of what she calls aesthetic reading, while retaining the elements of engagement to yield an account of reading nonliterary texts that foregrounds the role of critical thinking and engagement to produce Rosenblatt's version of aesthetic reading for the kinds of academic texts that are typically read and written in college writing classes. This type of aesthetic reading can help Basic Writers understand their roles and responsibilities as readers and writers of the non-fiction texts with which they are confronted in their composition classes.

A fictional look at the daily life of a homesteading family in Maine, Minnesota in 1890.

Considered one of the world''s most beautiful beaches for its sugar white sand and emerald blue-green waters, Panama City Beach has, until recently, remained one of Florida''s undiscovered treasures. First documented by Spanish explorers in the 1500s and later by the English, the region remained unsettled because of its inaccessibility and marauding renegade inhabitants. At a time when property was valued according to the crops it could grow, the beach was dismissed as a "no man''s land" unsuitable for habitation. The early 1930s and the Hathaway Bridge, connecting Panama City Beach to the mainland, marked its "discovery" and the beginning of area tourism.

A lift-the-flap learning book. When you reach the end of the book, go back and see if you can spot all the tihings hidden.

In this brightly illustrated tale for younger readers, it's Luke's birthday soon. He'd like to have a birthday party but doesn't know anyone in his new school. This will be familiar to any child who's ever been the new kid on the block.

"Use the simple rhymes and rhythms in this storybook to encourage your child to discover the joys of making music" -- back cover.

This book presents a strictly refereed collection of revised full papers selected from the papers accepted for the TYPES ''94 Workshop, held under the auspices of the ESPRIT Basic Research Action 6453 Types for Proofs and Programs in Bastad, Sweden, in June 1994. The 10 papers included address various aspects of developing computer-assisted proofs and programs using a logical framework. Type theory and three logical frameworks based on it are dealt with: ALF, Coq, and LEGO; other topics covered are metatheory, the Isabelle system, 2-calculus, proof checkers, and ZF set theory.