Books with author Mark Weakland

Ages 4 through 11. Use rap music to develop oral and written language skills. The manual includes specific procedures for using rap music and strategies for creating your own raps to enhance learning. The CD includes raps for teaching basic concepts, word rhyming, production of speech sounds, and other skills. The CD also includes drum rhythms without words that students can use to practice original raps. Classroom teachers, speech-language pathologists, music therapy specialists, and special education teachers are among those who have found this activity kit to be helpful in teaching basic skills to underachieving and special needs students. Reading activities are FUN when students RAP IT UP. This best selling resource should be in every classroom. This resource can be used to help children with language disorders, reading problems, and other disabilities that affect learning and social interactions

On a dark night as you watch the sky with your friends, a rock with a fiery tail shoots across the sky. A comet! Asteroids and comets hurtle through space, sometimes a little too close to Earth. But did you know that they are linked to life on this planet? From the asteroid Ceres to Halley's comet, blast into space and enter the lonely existence of asteroids and comets.