New Releases by Melissa Billings

"Features: astonishing stories inspire students to read and write, bursting with colorful, eye-popping photos!, motivates all students to enjoy reading"--Cover.

"Features: astonishing stories inspire students to read and write, bursting with colorful, eye-popping photos!, motivates all students to enjoy reading"--Cover.

Ever wanted to dive into the experience of someone with amnesia, or read about someone''s out of body experience? In Your Dreams features selections of strange events and unexplainable occurrences that have questioned logic and science for decades!

Selections from this text give students the opportunity to travel into the minds and events of society''s extraordinary citizens. They Walk Among Us features unbelievable, yet real news stories about escaped killers, child geniuses, vampires, and ghosts!

Adventures in Reading combines adventure based readings with a picture-dictionary approach to build vocabulary and develop critical reading and test-taking skills for academic success. Each book in the Adventures in Reading series contains 16 six-page chapters that develop reading comprehension and vocabulary building skills around high-interest reading passages. A Scope & Sequence section at the front of each book outlines the array of the skills covered. A Skills Index at the back of each book shows teachers where each skill is introduced and recycled. Passages in the beginning level student book run 250-350 words in length, and passages in the intermediate level student book run 400-500 words in length.

Stimulating and accessible, the titles in the LIVEWIRE series have been produced in association with The Basic Skills Agency to ensure a non-patronising approach towards the requirements of readers with special needs. LIVEWIRE INVESTIGATES is a series of thrilling accounts of dream careers, sports and extreme sports, disasters and catastrophes, strange mysteries, and the natural world. Read about the thrills and dangers of CLIMBING THE WORLD''S HIGHEST MOUNTAINS in this exciting account.

Part of the On the Edge series that engages students with stories in three broad categories: Supernatural/Paranormal, True crime and Unexplainable events, this text focuses on reading selections that deal with scary experiences such as the Tylenol murders, people held against their will, stalkers, and rats and snakes.

Written by experienced special needs teachers, and fully assessed by The Basic Skills Agency to ensure accessibility in both layout and content, Livewire Investigates is a series of thrilling accounts of dream careers, sports and extreme sports, disasters and catastrophes and strange mysteries.

Reading Level 6-8 and Interest Level 6-23

Subject matter for thought ful interpretation and sicussion while challenging your students in 4 critical reading categories: main idea, important details, inferences, and vocabulary in context.

Subject matter for thought ful interpretation and sicussion while challenging your students in 4 critical reading categories: main idea, important details, inferences, and vocabulary in context.

Subject matter for thoughtful interpretation and discussion while challenging your students in 4 critical reading categories: main idea, important details, inferences, and vocabulary in context.