Understanding Global Warming: What the Book Says
You probably decided about this book before you finished reading the title. Here is what is actually in it, stated as plainly as I can manage, so the decision is...
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The Basics of Cell Life: Start the Biology Set Here
A cell is about a hundredth of a millimeter across, and no diagram with eleven labels on it has ever made a child feel that. Shrinking a character down and...
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Investigating the Scientific Method: The Odd One Out
Every other book in this series is about something: sound, magnets, volcanoes, cells. This one is about a procedure. That makes it the odd book of the set, and it...
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Coral Reefs: The Comic That Teaches Real Biology
It looks like a comic and it reads like one. It is also a marine biology unit in disguise, and it leaves your child able to explain a bleached reef...
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Reading Curriculum That Builds Readers, Not Just Decoders
Most phonics programs work fine. The readers get made, or lost, in what comes after decoding, and almost nobody shops for that part. Here are six things to check before...
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Gifted, Behind, or Both: Homeschooling the Asynchronous Kid
The publisher website wants one number, and your child does not have one number. She reads like a sixth grader and fights third-grade math. Before you split the difference and...
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