The Art of Reading is about the wonderful feeling of engaging with a novel or short story on all levels and learning how artful readers think about and approach the works they read. Whether you're someone who loves curling up with a good book, a writer who is looking for insights into how to get inside your readers' minds, or a student who wants to contribute to class discussions, there's something for you to find in this course.24-lecture course...

Children are encouraged to read by host LeVar Burton through a combination of field trips, music, animation, and live-action that brings stories to life.

Reading Rainbow brings great books to life onscreen through rich illustrations and celebrity narrators. Each episode introduces kids to interesting new people and places, and explores important social and cultural issues that offer kids a close-up look at the world around them.

Deep inside the Storybook Factory, where pictures, words, and imagination bring stories to life, Tad, Lily, Casey, and Dot decide to put a few new twists on a classic tale. The result is a fun-filled adventure that turns reading into a delightful game! Special features include sing-along songs to help little ones learn, complete with a string of read-along words that run across the screen.

A cultural phenomenon in the '70s, this wildly popular educational television show with big laughs had a bigger message: teaching children basic reading and grammar skills with the emphasis on fun. The best episodes are here in true nostalgic glory.

"Many words don't follow basic decoding rules and are taught in pre-k and kindergarten classrooms as 'sight words', 'instant words', 'high frequency words' or 'star words.' ... [This DVD featured sight words are] all, at, be, by, from , her, him, look, one, or, some, there, this, up & word."--Container.

The amazing alphabet amusement park: Early reading skills. The alphabet ; upper/lowercase letters ; rhyming. Learn to read at the storybook factor. Ready for school skills. Story structure ; comprehension ; reading skills. Numbers ahoy. Mathematics skills. Number recognition ; counting ; estimation.

Frederick Noad goes through the basics of how to read a piece of piano music: pitch, duration, rests and ties, a few familiar tunes, time signatures, sharps and flats, chords and counterpoint, and using both hands together.

When Mo Folchart reads a story aloud, the characters leap off the page. Literally. And that's a problem. One night he brings out three characters from Inkheart, a story set in medieval times and filled with magical beings. Capricorn and Basta are two villains. Dustfinger is a fire-eater. Now, 10 years later Mo's daughter, Meggie, discovers the truth and it's up to her to escape Capricorn's evil grasp. Mo has been searching for a long lost book that...