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The street is so busy with all kinds of workers. Can you tell what work they do? Featuring simple phrases, exact text-to-image relationships, large font, and vibrant photographs, this Spanish-translated e-Book aligns to the National Council for the Social Studies, state standards, and helps students become familiar with the many people that work in our neighborhoods.
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Orca timeline volume 3
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"If you could design a city that would be both a great place to live and good for the planet, what would it look like? Today, more than half the world's population lives in cities and many of those cities face big challenges, including the climate crisis, food insecurity and rapid population growth, but they are also places where innovation can thrive. Peek into the past to see how cities have changed through time and explore what could make them...
6) City
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Did you know that about half of the people on Earth live in cities? Tokyo, Japan, is the most populated city in the world. Learn more in City, a title in the I Live Here! series.
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Shopkeepers, gardeners, families, and police officers: these are just a few of the people who live and work in an urban community. Young readers will get to know all about these people and their role in their community through this engaging, simple text. Interesting facts and full-color photos provide readers with a look at all aspects of the urban community, including what it s like to grow up in a city, who makes sure the city is safe, and places...
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This reader shows students that shapes are all around us. Movie tickets are rectangles. Pizza pans are circles. Students learn about the four basic shapes-triangles, rectangles, squares, and circles-as they look for them in photographs of places they go around town.
Este lector de los estudiantes muestra que las formas están a nuestro alrededor. Entradas de cine son rectángulos. Moldes para pizza son círculos. Los estudiantes aprenden sobre las...
12) Our green city
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"Welcome to our green city! You'll find flowers, trees, animals... and wind turbines, electric cars, and solar panels, too. In this city, a utopian imagination of what a sustainable community could look like, neighbours from diverse backgrounds come together to care for their surroundings and one another. As readers are invited on a journey through the city, they learn about what makes it environmentally friendly, from electric transportation to green...
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"Nonbinary fourth-grader Riley and their friends explore one of their favorite parks, but it isn't as fun as they remember. There isn't fancy new equipment or food trucks or a soccer pitch. But this small park has something other parks don't have, and by the end of the day Riley and their friends realize why it's so special." --
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My readers. Level 1 volume level 4
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Follows the planning, construction, and ultimate testing in battle of a typical fortress with adjoining town built by the English during the Middle Ages.
16) City and country
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"Adult and child readers will learn all about urban and rural areas together in this new Co-reader from National Geographic Kids! Readers will take a tour through cities and rural areas around the world to learn what life is like downtown, in a farm community, in the mountains, and all around"--
17) Eyewitness city
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Introduces the world's most fascinating, fast-paced cities and how they grow and function, including suburbs, shanty towns, and high-rise business districts.
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"Adult and child readers will learn all about urban and rural areas together in this new Co-reader from National Geographic Kids! Readers will take a tour through cities and rural areas around the world to learn what life is like downtown, in a farm community, in the mountains, and all around"--
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