Once he had acquired a respectable nickname, Sos was sure he was destined for great things, but he did not expect them to happen in the way they did. Sitting in the classroom, during an English test, he suddenly found himself on his feet shouting, "Isn't anybody listening.' It was his voice, but he hadn't said it. And so began an exciting adventure for him and his friend Sandy as they attempt to free Will Naylor from the clutches of the strange Dr Maxwell.

The tragic death of a young student, Melissa Franklin, was a shogk to all those who knew her; the two teachers whose job it was to supervise the excursion; her friends and fellow students who felt some responsibility for the accident and Stephen Watson who could not understand why Melissa had suddenly dumped him. Though the death was declared an accident, there was still some suspicion that it may have been a suicide. Susan, Melissa's sister is determined to find out what was going on in her sister's life and what really happened that day.

Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American culture were reflected in fashion? What role did popular culture play? This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitating British and French fashion to developing their own sense of style. It examines such influences on dress as class, jazz and hip hop, war, the space race, movies, television and sports. Further, the book shows how gender, psychology, advertising, public policy, shifting family values, the American design movement and expertise in mass production profoundly influenced an American style that has been exported across the globe. From New York City's Bohemians to Hollywood's stars, Twentieth-Century American Fashion reveals the continuing importance of clothing to American identity and individual experience.

Americans began the twentieth century standing in Europe's sartorial shadow, yet ended by outfitting the world in blue jeans, T-shirts and sneakers. How did this come about? What changes in American culture were reflected in fashion? What role did popular culture play?This important overview of American fashion in the twentieth century considers how Americans went from imitating British and French fashion to developing their own sense of style. It examines such influences on dress as class, jazz and hip hop, war, the space race, movies, television and sports. Further, the book shows how gender, psychology, advertising, public policy, shifting family values, the American design movement and expertise in mass production profoundly influenced an American style that has been exported across the globe. From New York City's Bohemians to Hollywood's stars, Twentieth-Century American Fashion reveals the continuing importance of clothing to American identity and individual experience.

An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here! Based on its highly successful parent text, Phonics They Use, this new grade-level series Making Words offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In Making Words Third Grade, Pat and Dottie introduce third grade teachers to 70 lessons that teach the homophones, spelling changes, prefixes and suffixes that most third grade curriculums cover. Each Making Words activity contains rhyming words which help children review the more complex vowel patterns. Including homophones, prefixes, suffixes, spelling changes, and complex rhyming patterns allowing third graders at all levels to make progress in their spelling and decoding ability. Making Words Third Grade is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words! Features 70 fun and interactive lessons for building rhyming and decoding skills. Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying homophones, prefixes, and suffixes and how these change the meanings of words in sentences. Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills. Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate. Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.

Patricia M. Cunningham and Dorothy P. Hall Making Words Second Grade: 100 Hands-On Lessons for Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, and Spelling Based on the best-selling book, "Phonics They Use: Words for Reading and Writing," this grade level series offers a fresh pairing of lessons and activities for kindergarten through fifth grade. In "Making Words Second Grade," Pat and Dottie introduce second grade teachers to 100 Making Words lessons that cover all of the literacy skills included in most second grade curricula. The activities progress through a systematic, sequential phonics program that includes all the complex vowel patterns second graders need to learn. In all lessons students make and sort these words into patterns. Each lesson ends with a transfer step to help them apply the sounds they learn to the spelling of new words. "I would highly recommend this book to my colleagues because it engaged all of my students and helped each of them improve their reading and writing skills. My struggling readers felt successful after saying and stretching out the words then forming them...[and m]y fluent spellers had fun with the hands on approach and loved being challenged with the secret word. I saw good spellers blossoming in front of my eyes!" --Marie Daniel, Clemmons Elementary School, Clemmons, NC
.,."the assessment piece is a strength of this text. I also like how it provides a home--school link and a description of how this activity is multi-level. This text could easily be used by new educators as well as veteran teachers." --Roxanne Monmaney, New Franklin Elementary School, Portsmouth, NH" " Patricia M. Cunningham is the author of "Beyond Retelling," "Classrooms That Work,""Schools That Work," and "Phonics They Use," all published by Allyn & Bacon, as well as a professor of education at Wake Forest University. She has over 30 years of experience in various elementary grades and with remedial reading and has served as a curriculum coordinator and director of reading. Pat promotes literacy for all children through her Four Blocks(R) workshops and staff development sessions with educators. Dorothy P. Hall is the co-developer of the Four Blocks(R) framework and the director of the Four Blocks(R) Center at Wake Forest University. A former elementary teacher and education professor, she also presents workshops around the country on Four Blocks(R), Building Blocks, guided reading strategies, and phonics instruction.

An active and innovative approach to making words that teachers and their students have grown to love is finally here Based on its highly successful parent text, "Phonics They Use," this new grade-level series "Making Words" offers teachers a fresh multi-level activity and lesson series written for the kindergarten through fifth grade classroom. Pat Cunningham and Dottie Hall present classroom teachers with effective tools for strengthening phonics and spelling skills that encourage students to move beyond learning and into a world of word discovery. Each research-based volume includes a wealth of friendly, hands-on, manipulative activities that guide teachers in teaching the development of words--from phonemic awareness to spelling. In "Making Words First Grade, "Pat and Dottie introduce first grade teachers" "to100 lessons that teach all the phonics, spelling, and phonemic awareness skills included in most first grade curriculums. Each Making Words activity leads children through a systematic and sequential phonics curriculum. All lessons include practice with the phonemic awareness skills of segmenting and blending as children stretch out words they are making and blend the letters to make new words. Because teaching children letter-sound relationships is easier than teaching children to actually use these letter-sound relationships, all lessons include a transfer step in which children apply the sounds they are learning to spelling new words. "Making Words First Grade "is the best resource you can have on hand for motivating your students to learn words

• Features 100 fun and interactive lessons for building phonemic awareness, phonics, and spelling skills.
• Presents a concise method for involving students in the process of identifying phonological units and patterns within words.
• Promotes student awareness of similarities in words that helps develop writing skills.
• Includes reproducible letter tiles, record sheets for each lesson, and take-home sheets to copy, cut, and/or laminate.
• Highlights a list of useful children's books to extend the Making Words lesson.