Books with author Maria Fleming

What should you do when you can't sleep? Just close your eyes and count some sheep! You'll smile at this super-silly bedtime story!This rib-tickling read-aloud tale was created especially to build early phonics skills by teaching children to recognize "families" of words that share the same spelling pattern. This key reading strategy helps kids decode new words with ease—and become stronger readers, writers, and spellers! Also includes riddles, a cheer, and reading tips!

Inspiring and true, A Place at the Table chronicles the lives of American freedom fighters whose stories are little-known, but whose efforts have paved the way for equality and justice in the face of extreme prejudice. Unsung heroes and their brave deeds, such as house slave Elizabeth Freeman's momentous court battle winning her freedom, suffragette Sara Bard Field's cross-country journey for women's rights, and Nisqually Indian Billy Frank Jr.'s fight for Native American land rights, toppled barriers in education, voting, employment, housing, and other areas of discrimination. A rousing history of American champions of justice, A Place at the Table is filled with men and women who, when told by society to "stay in their place," insisted that "their place" was at the American table as full-fledged participants in democracy.

Little Leveled Readers are not too easy or too hard—but just right! That’s because they have been carefully evaluated by a reading specialist to correlate with Guided Reading Level B. Inside you’ll find 75 storybooks (5 copies of 15 titles) on topics children love, which makes them perfect for group learning. Includes a mini-teaching guide. For use with Grades PreK-2.

"Can we get a goat, rat, or bat?" asked the girl. "No, no, no!" said Dad. But there IS one pet Dad will let her get.This read-aloud story is designed to jumpstart reading success by introducing—and reinforcing—the most frequently used words in print. Help ensure that children really know their sight words by sharing this engaging tale!This book teaches these four sight words: can, we, get, no.

This Level C little reader is designed to support children at the emergent stage of literacy, and features the following characteristics:• One to two lines of text per page• High-support illustrations with close text-to-picture match• Repeated and recognizable high-frequency words• Punctuation conventions such as quotation marks in dialogue• Consistent text placement on the page, with slight variations such as speech bubbles• Familiar story themes that build on children’s experience

The ants go marching two by two, hurrah, hurrah! Kids won't be able to resist singing—and skip counting—along with this rollicking, rhyming story. This tale is designed to boost important early numeracy skills by helping children recognize numbers, count, add, subtract, and more. Also includes an interactive hide-and-seek page, and a chant-along poem!

Little hands—and minds—will be at work as kids dive into these adorable, reproducible mini-books and build reading confidence. As children read and interact with each story, they’ll practice decoding text using picture cues, expand their vocabulary, and more. At the same time, they’ll deepen their understanding of topics such as counting, shapes, colors, and opposites.

Look at that cat go! He can run, throw, swim, and row. And that is just for starters!This read-aloud story is designed to jumpstart reading success by introducing—and reinforcing—the most frequently used words in print. Help ensure that children really know their sight words by sharing this engaging tale!This book teaches these four sight words: look, at, that, go.

How do you make a giraffe laugh? Find out in this super silly tale!This read-aloud story is designed to jumpstart reading success by introducing—and reinforcing—the most frequently used words in print. Help ensure that children really know their sight words by sharing this engaging tale!This book teaches these four sight words: how, do, make, laugh.

Don't be afraid, Monster. There is nothing scary under the blanket. There is nothing scary under the desk. Will our frightened friend ever go to bed?This read-aloud story is designed to jumpstart reading success by introducing—and reinforcing—the most frequently used words in print. Help ensure that children really know their sight words by sharing this engaging tale!This book teaches these four sight words: don't, be, there, under.