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Using Sylvan Dell Books and Online Resources in the Classroom
What we like to emphasize with parents and teachers using our books and eBooks is that we offer so much more than just great picturebooks. We have developed a significant amount of value-added, teaching activities and interactive quizzes for each title that are free on our website - if folks want to use them. We view it as a sequenced process where trailers and eBooks are a fun tee-up for a much more in-depth, cross-curricular learning experience. Reading the eBooks projected on large screen or using “smart boards” is easy to use technology and so much more fun for the children. For parents and teachers wanting to work the science, math and other learning objectives, each book has a 3-5 page educational section in the back. But that is really just the beginning ... and our free, online resources shown below are just amazing. If you are teaching Spanish or ESL children of all ages, our eBooks and audiobooks are phenomenol tools. At Sylvan Dell, it is about getting the children excited about the subject and then as we like to say: strike while the learning iron is hot!
Here is how the links are set-up on our Book Homepages … click image to go to the Whistling Wings book homepage page or just click the links below to explore the different resources.
eBooks are a big part of our program and our new eBook format featuring Auto-Flip, Auto-Read and Language Selection have been designed from the ground up to improve a child's reading speed, comprehension, and language skills. These are some of the most technologically advanced eBooks in the world today. Parents and teachers are encouraged to take a test-drive and see for themselves. Let the children play with these eBooks for a few weeks, and you’ll be amazed at their excitement and improved reading performance. For children wanting to learn a foreign language or ESOL families learning English, these are phenomenal tools.
We think you'll find our new eBooks easy to operate but just in case, we have also put together this short tutorial to assist and an eBook sample to practice with:
We offer training and set-up help via phone and for group training, we are happy to schedule w ebinars for schools and teachers who would like a hands-on, 20-30-minute training session with Q&A. If you or your teachers are interested, please check online for details and webinar registration info (or email or call us).
And, if you click on this audiobook player, you can listen to all 55 titles in English and Spanish.
Author Biographies with School Visit Info - We have 75 wonderful authors and illustrators on our team; many of whom love to come in to the schools and provide readings and presentations.
If you are trying to really get the most out of our books, here is the sequence that we recommend. It is a menu that you can pick and choose from but there is quite a bit there on every book homepage and we suggest you just explore all links and enjoy.
Click on the Book Homepage Link at the top of your opened eBook window to access the free resources available for that book. You can also access this information by clicking on the book's cover image at http://www.sylvandellpublishing.com
Everglades Reading List: Where Should Turtle Be? by Susan Ring; Henry the Impatient Heron, by Donna Love; Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter, by Mary Alice Monroe; Carolina's Story, by Donna Rathmell German; If a Dolphin Were a Fish, by Loran Wlodarski, and Turtles in my Sandbox, by Jennifer Keats Curtis
Florida, 2009: Ocean Hide and Seek, by Jennifer Kramer; Sort It Out! by Barbara Mariconda; Henry the Impatient Heron, by Donna Love; Where Should Turtle Be? by Susan Ring; Little Skink's Tail, by Janet Halfmann; 'Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, by Catherine Ipcizade; River Beds: Sleeping in the World's Rivers, by Gail Langer Karwoski; Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter, by Mary Alice Monroe
Florida, 2008: Turtle Summer: A Journal for My Daughter, by Mary Alice Monroe; The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan Mitchell; Ocean Seasons by Ron Hirschi; One Odd Day by Doris Fisher and Dani Sneed; The Giraffe Who Was Afraid of Heights by David Ufer
Florida, 2010 Summer Recommended Reading: Count Down to Fall by Frank Hawk; Moose and Magpie by Bettina Restrepo, Henry the Impatient Heron by Donna Love, Little Skink's Tail by Janet Halfmann; Ocean Hide and Seek by Jennifer Evans Kramer; Twas the Day Before Zoo Day Catherine Ipcizade
Green Reading List, National Environmental Education Foundation: Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter, by Mary Alice Monroe; A Day in the Salt Marsh, by Kevin Kurtz; Whistling Wings, by Laura Goering; Where Should Turtle Be? by Susan Ring; Henry the Impatient Heron, by Donna Love; and One Wolf Howls, by Scotti Cohn.
Kansas State Reading Circle, 2009: 'Twas the Day Before Zoo Day, by Catherine Ipcizade, Sort It Out! by Barbara Mariconda, Kersplatypus by Susan Mitchell
South Dakota Prairie Bud Master List, 2010-2011: Whistling Wings, by Laura Goering
Tennessee, 2009-2010: The Rainforest Grew All Around by Susan Mitchell. K-3 Volunteer State Book Award (Tennessee's Children's Choice) master reading list.
South Carolina Reads, Suggested Reading List 2009: Paws, Claws, Hands, and Feet, by Kimberly Hutmacher; Henry the Impatient Heron, by Donna Love; Sort It Out! by Barbara Mariconda; Turtle Summer: A Journal for my Daughter, by Mary Alice Monroe; Where Should Turtle Be? by Susan Ring