Books with author Henry Billings

From Google Books: Travel ? Essays & Travelogues, Adventure and adventurers Adventure stories, Readers for new literates, Reading (Adult education), Travel / Essays & Travelogues ~~~~ From Wikipedia: Literacy has been described as the ability to read for knowledge and write coherently and think critically about the written word. Literacy can also include the ability to understand all forms of communication, be it body language, pictures, video & sound (reading, speaking, listening and viewing). Evolving definitions of literacy often include all the symbol systems relevant to a particular community. Literacy encompasses a complex set of abilities to understand and use the dominant symbol systems of a culture for personal and community development. In a technological society, the concept of literacy is expanding to include the media and electronic text, in addition to alphabetic and number systems. These abilities vary in different social and cultural contexts according to need and demand. ~~~ Literacy represents the lifelong, intellectual process of gaining meaning from print. Key to all literacy is reading development, which involves a progression of skills that begins with the ability to understand spoken words and decode written words, and culminates in the deep understanding of text. Reading development involves a range of complex language underpinnings including awareness of speech sounds (phonology), spelling patterns (orthography), word meaning (semantics), grammar (syntax) and patterns of word formation (morphology), all of which provide a necessary platform for reading fluency and comprehension. Once these skills are acquired the reader can attain full language literacy, which includes the abilities to approach printed material with critical analysis, inference and synthesis; to write with accuracy and coherence; and to use information and insights from text as the basis for informed decisions and creative thought.[1]

1996 Critical Reading Skills, The Wild Side: Bizarre Endings (P) by Henry Billings & Melissa Billings ***Features: *15 High Interest Nonfiction Articles *3 Graduated Reading Levels *Exercises That Improve Reading Comprehension and Increase Reading Rate *Charts and Graphs for Tracking Individual Progress *Answer Key ***ISBN-13: 9780890618035 ***Pages: 114

Does your child enjoy stories of escaping danger? If so, then this workbook will be the perfect tool for them to learn while having fun reading exciting stories of some amazing escapes. Titles of stories in the workbook include No Lock Could Hold Him Running for the Border Marching Out of Burma Alone on a Raft Tumbling Through the Sky! Train Ride to Freedom Crash Landing! Prison Break! Hijacking! Survival in Cambodia Balloon Ride to Freedom Lawyer Turns Outlaw Also includes glossary, progress chart and answer key. 94 pages

1996 Critical Reading Skills, The Wild Side -- Total Panic (P) by Henry Billings & Melissa Billings ***Features: *15 High Interest Nonfiction Articles *3 Graduated Reading Levels *Exercises That Improve Reading Comprehension and Increase Reading Rate *Charts and Graphs for Tracking Individual Progress *Answer Key ***ISBN-10: 0890618046 / ISBN-13: 9780890618042 ***Pages: 114