Books with author Tate Johnston

Riomo Books: Love Learning To Read---- Skills. Confidence. Enjoyment. ----Short Vowel Shorts: The First Five Multi-word Books Your Child Can "Read On My Own"Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Fat Cat vs. Bad Bat is the third phonics story in this series and utilizes only the short vowel a.This very short story can just be a silly interaction between a cat and a bat that helps children hop into reading, or it could provide an opportunity to talk about how our actions can affect others, consequences of our actions, ways we can respond rather than retaliation and how seeking to understand one another might change the way we treat others. Bad Bat is rude to/bullies Fat Cat. How will Fat Cat feel? How will Fat Cat respond? What do you think happens next? How could this interaction have been different?Short Vowel Shorts is a series of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities. They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves.Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds.The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!”No sight words/tricky words.Full color original illustrations.Fun characters and stories.Builds Skills, Confidence & Enjoyment

Award-winning picture-book author Tony Johnston presents the poignant story of a loving Mexican-American family in East L.A. in her first novel for young readers.Los Angeles is a place of movie stars and fast cars and people who are too rich and people who are too poor. An area of freeway chases and drive-bys and death. But there's another L.A., one where warmth and humor and humanity pervade. Where a tacqueria sign declares: "One cause, one people, one taco." This L.A. is a place where random acts of generosity and goodwill improve the lives of the community. Any Small Goodness is a novel filled with hope, love, and warmth.

When the Nazis invaded Poland, a family is split apart. The parents are sent to one concentration camp, their son to another. Only his father's gift, a harmonica, keeps the boy's hopes alive and, miraculously, ensures his survival.Tony Johnston's powerful story, inspired by the life of a Holocaust survivor, is enhanced by Ron Mazellan's luminous artwork.A testament to the human spirit and the transcendent power of music.

Riomo Books: Love Learning to Read---- Skills. Confidence. Enjoyment. ----Short Vowel Sound Bites are building blocks for beginning readers, building skills and confidence as they sound out two letter and three letter words, rewarded or supported by vibrant colour illustrations.If your child knows all the basic letter sounds, with support, they can begin "blending" sounds (putting two or more sounds together) into words.Building Skills:Sound Bites begins sections with "two sound" words, such as up and egg (Notice egg has three letters but only two sounds), and then moves to "three sound" words like pup and big, and then builds to two and three words on a page.Interaction:Short Vowel Sound Bites is designed for you (parent, carer, teacher, big sister, etc.) to support your learner's journey. Lots of apps can sound out words and reveal letters at a touch, but it's your interaction with and support of your unique child which can make all the difference.You can't be replaced. High five!It's your interaction with and support of your unique child which can make all the difference.Riomo Books - Helping you help kids Love Learning To Read.

Riomo Books: Love Learning To Read---- Skills. Confidence. Enjoyment. ----Short Vowel Shorts: The First Five Multi-word Books Your Child Can "Read On My Own"Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Ed Egg vs. Peg Leg Egg is the first phonics eBook in this series and utilizes only the short vowel e because short vowel e is the easiest vowel to learn to read.Help your children hop into reading with this short story about what happens when a plain egg meets a pirate egg!You can simply enjoy seeing the satisfaction of a child successfully reading a whole story, or you can use the opportunity to help kids begin to develop the skills of predicting what will happen and making inferences about what happened.Short Vowel Shorts is a series of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities. They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves.Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds.The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!”No sight words/tricky words.Full color original illustrations.Fun characters and stories.Build Skills, Confidence & EnjoymentHelp kids Love Learning to Read

Riomo Books: Love Learning To Read---- Skills. Confidence. Enjoyment. ----Short Vowel Shorts: The First Five Multi-word Books Your Child Can "Read On My Own"Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Ish Fish & Jin Fin is the fourth phonics eBook in this series and utilizes only the short vowel i.Help your children hop into reading with this short story about a fish and a dolphin that celebrates teamwork. Short Vowel Shorts is a series of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities. They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves.Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds.The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!”No sight words/tricky words.Full color original illustrations.Fun characters and stories.Builds Skills, Confidence & Enjoyment

Short Vowel Shorts have been described as "Pre-Dr. Seuss”Designed by a dad to delight his 4 1/2 year old, they became the first 5 stories he could "read on his own."- Vibrant original colour illustrations- NO sight words/tricky words/"silent letters"- Delightful characters- Fun or surprising story lines- ALL UPPER CASEMy son LOVES to read these books!★★★★★ out of 5- My Kindergartener is learning to read and is super enjoying this book series. He can read them with little help and thinks they are so funny! They are much more interesting than most early readers and are very basic for just starting out. I love that they are only short vowel words which build his confidence. - AcadiaM., parentA struggling reader who felt very successful★★★★ out of 4- I just used these stories with a struggling reader who felt very successful when he could decode every word! - Holly B., teacherIf your child knows their letter sounds, they're ready for the next step in loving learning to read.Now I know my ABCs, Next it's Short Vowel Shorts for me!Get all 5 Short Vowel Shorts in One Set:- Ed Egg vs. Peg Leg Egg (Book 1)- Bup Pup vs. Ug Slug vs. Hug Bug (Book 2)- Fat Cat vs. Bad Bat (Book 3)- Ish Fish & Jin Fin (Book 4)- Bob Bot & Dot Bot (Book 5)Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Making Inferences & Predictions: You can simply enjoy seeing the satisfaction of a child successfully reading a whole story, or you can use the opportunity to help kids begin to develop the skills of predicting what will happen and making inferences about what happened. What is happening? What do you think will happen next?Short Vowel Shorts is a set of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities, so kids enjoy reading from the start.They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words or silent letters, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves. Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds. The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!” Riomo BooksSkills. Confidence. Enjoyment.Love Learning to Read

Riomo Books: Love Learning To Read---- Skills. Confidence. Enjoyment. ----Short Vowel Shorts: The First Five Multi-word Books Your Child Can "Read On My Own"Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Bup Pup vs. Ug Slug vs. Hug Bug is the second phonics eBook in this series and utilizes only the short vowel u because short vowel u is the second easiest vowel to learn to read.On your mark. Get set. Go! Help your children reach the "checkered flag" (reading a whole book!) with flying colors with this short story about what happens when a puppy, a slug and a ladybug go for a race.There's also an opportunity to teach ordinal numbers: 1st, 2nd, 3rd.You can simply enjoy seeing the satisfaction of a child successfully reading a whole story, or you can use the opportunity to help kids begin to develop the skills of predicting what will happen and making inferences about what happened.Short Vowel Shorts is a series of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities. They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves.Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds.The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!”No sight words/tricky words.Full color original illustrations.Fun characters and stories.Build Skills, Confidence & EnjoymentHelp kids Love Learning to Read

Riomo Books: Love Learning To Read---- Skills. Confidence. Enjoyment. ----Short Vowel Shorts: The First Five Multi-word Books Your Child Can "Read On My Own"Is your child ready to read? If they know all their letter sounds, they can sound out (decode) and read these very short, confidence-building stories for children. Bob Bot & Dot Bot is the fifth phonics eBook in this series and utilizes only the short vowel o.Help your children hop into reading with this short story about what happens when Bob Bot meets Dot Bot. You can simply enjoy seeing the satisfaction of a child successfully reading a whole story, or you can use the opportunity to help kids begin to develop the skills of predicting what will happen and making inferences about what happened.Short Vowel Shorts is a series of five phonics books for kids that can help them gain confidence as they learn how to read. The books are designed to be an engaging compliment to word family or phonics worksheets and other reading activities. They don’t contain any sight words/tricky words, so children who know all their letter sounds but haven’t learned sight words yet can sound out (decode) the words and read them, initially with help from a parent or teacher, and then by themselves.Each story contains only one short vowel sound, so children are only deciphering one vowel sound for the whole story rather than a mix of multiple vowel sounds.The aim of Short Vowel Shorts is to provide parents and teachers with an option for a phonics step between single letter sounds/word families and short stories that contain sight words and a mix of multiple vowel sounds. With original full color illustrations and in story format, Short Vowel Shorts can be an engaging supplement to word families that will have children gaining skills, confidence, and enjoyment as readers, and saying: "Can I Read-It-On-My-Own?" and then: “I just Read-It-On-My-Own!”No sight words/tricky words.Full color original illustrations.Fun characters and stories.Builds Skills, Confidence & Enjoyment

Inside Tim Johnston's Irish Girl, readers will find spellbinding stories of loss, absence, and the devastating effects of chance—of what happens when the unthinkable bad luck of other people, of other towns, becomes our bad luck, our town. Taut, lucid, and engrossing, provocative and dark—and often darkly funny—these stories have much to offer the lover of literary fiction as well as the reader who just loves a great story. “It’s dark in here, but brilliant. Tim Johnston is as wise as he is original, and his stories are impossible to forget.”—David Sedaris "This is white-knuckle prose; it means what it says and it says what it means. Not that I count words, but when an image can be etched in fewer than ten, I sit up and take notice. When an image is limned in fewer than five words, I pretty near shiver. The stories in Irish Girl provide more shiver per page than most stories provide in twenty."—Janet Peery, judge and author of The River Beyond the World

School's out in Big River, Iowa, and Tex Donleavy, a kid who keeps his nose in the books and his deformed right hand deep in his pocket, is looking forward to a blissful summer in the company of Linda Volesky, the vivacious beauty who happens to be his father's girlfriend. Instead, Tex gets dumped on his mother's doorstep, where Farley Dickerson, the big oaf she's just married, and his two kids have made themselves at home. Nobody's more surprised than Tex, then, when he discovers he likes his new stepfather, that he actually wants to spend the summer at Mom's, and that he - Tex Donleavy - is going to play ball on Farley's Little League team. And then there's the plucky and brooding Jack, Farley's daughter, who becomes Tex's closest ally, as well as his greatest source of confusion. In all, it's shaping up to be a summer full of surprises - though nothing can prepare Tex for the biggest surprise of all, a secret so terrible that it will change the lives of every member of his family.Through his careful, lyrical prose, Tim Johnston expertly balances the pain of inching toward maturity with sly humor, making his fiction debut an auspicious occasion.