In this title, emergent readers are introduced to the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the Thanksgiving holiday. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
In this title, emergent readers are introduced to the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the Lunar New Year holiday. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
In this title, emergent readers are introduced to the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the Passover holiday. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
In this title, emergent readers are introduced to the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the St. Patrick's Day holiday. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
In this title, emergent readers are introduced to the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the Juneteenth holiday. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
In this title, emergent readers are introduced to the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the Holi holiday. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
In this title, emergent readers are introduced to the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the Fourth of July holiday. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
Read about the celebrations, traditions, and symbols behind the Day of the Dead holiday. Carefully crafted text with high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references support emergent readers, creating a fun first nonfiction reading experience.
This book introduces the holiday of Thanksgiving, its origins, and explains how the turkey came to be a symbol of the day.
This book introduces the origin of Halloween and the meaning behind jack-o-lanterns as well as other customs connected to this holiday. This book also discusses the cultivation and additional uses of pumpkins.
This book introduces the tiny green plants known as shamrocks, and explains the customs and origins of St. Patrick's Day as well as how the shamrock became the national symbol of Ireland.
This book introduces the significance of the Fourth of July holiday and the origin and meaning of its celebration with fireworks.
This book introduces the holiday of Easter and explains how bunnies and eggs came to be symbols of the day.
A simple book describing the origin and the significance of using evergreen trees at Christmastime, how they are grown, cut, and shipped, how to chose a good tree, and how to care for it.
Whether counting down on December 31st or hanging lanterns for the Lunar New Year, people around the world celebrate each new year. In New Years Around the World, readers will explore the customs and traditions of New Year's Eve in the United States, Reveillon in Brazil, Tet in Vietnam, and Hogmanay in Scotland. This hi-lo narrative nonfiction series celebrates diverse cultures while highlighting how expressions of joy and connection are all part of the human experience.
Freedom rings in countries around the world. Readers will explore how different countries celebrate their independence, and the customs and traditions that define these independence day celebrations: Fourth of July in the United States, Independence Day in India, Freedom Day in South Africa, and Bastille Day in France. This hi-lo narrative nonfiction series celebrates diverse cultures while highlighting how expressions of joy and connection are all part of the human experience.
From festivals of light in the dark days of winter to harvest celebrations, cultures around the world celebrate the joys each season brings in different ways. Readers will explore the customs and traditions that define these seasonal celebrations: holiday season in the United States, Holi in India, a Scandinavian Midsummer, and a Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival. This hi-lo narrative nonfiction series celebrates diverse cultures while highlighting how expressions of joy and connection are all part of the human experience.
Another year older, another year wiser—birthdays let us celebrate who we are and who we are growing to be. Readers will explore how people around the world celebrate their birthday, and the customs and traditions that define these birthday celebrations: birthdays in America, birthdays in Mexico, doljanchi in South Korea, and a Soul Day celebration in Ghana. This hi-lo narrative nonfiction series celebrates diverse cultures while highlighting how expressions of joy and connection are all part of the human experience.
All over the world, people love to celebrate! Whether it is a religious festival or a family event, there are many celebrations and traditions to discover. Celebrations Around the World is part of Decodables by Jump!, a comprehensive library of decodable leveled readers that follow a sequenced approach to phonics instruction.
One little bunny spends a merry day with a special loved one, baking, wrapping, playing, and preparing for Christmas. When family and friends arrive it's time for carols and hot cocoa around the fire. This sweet, cozy story reminds readers that the joy in the holiday season is being with the ones we love.
Lola's family has an apple orchard and every year they sell hundreds of apple pies for customers' Thanksgiving tables. It's always a big job; so this year Lola is going to cook Thanksgiving dinner on her own to help out. She has a plan and a list. But Mom and Dad need her help making all the pies too. Lola's list keeps getting left behind and Thanksgiving arrives without crossing off a single thing. Luckily, aunts and uncles and cousins arrive ready to help the family prepare a Thanksgiving feast! Just…no apple pie, please! Includes an apple pie recipe.
During Passover, Jews are reminded of how, more than three thousand years ago, their ancestors emerged from slavery to become free men and women. Bestselling author Monique Polak explores her own Jewish roots as she tells the Passover story, which reminds us that the freedom to be who we are and practice our religion, whatever it may be, is a great gift. It also teaches us that if we summon our courage and look out for each other, we can endure and overcome the most challenging circumstances. Enlivened by personal stories, Passover reminds us that we can all endure and overcome the most challenging circumstances. Passover is the first in a series of books called Orca Origins that will examine ancient traditions kept alive in the modern world. Other books in the series will cover Ramadan, Chinese New Year and Diwali.
Christmas is a popular holiday celebrated by people all over the world. This informative and engaging exploration of Christmas is aimed at the middle grades but will entertain readers of a much wider age range. Learn about the games played, foods eaten, music played and favorite ways of decorating in different parts of the world. With lots of fun facts (about everything from frumenty to the jolly old man in red himself) and recipes, there's plenty in this beautifully illustrated volume to satisfy anyone with an interest in the festive season.
Mousekin's mother reminds her it is a special day, but the little mouse cannot seem to figure out why.
Jess and Jaylen enter a costume contest and must work up the courage to go through a scary haunted house.
