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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 640L
Language
English
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Description
Holidays, celebrations, and symbols are highlighted in this up-to-date fact-filled introduction to the United States. Spotlight on the United States of America looks at the colonial history of the U.S., its government, and some of its important leaders. Many colorful pictures, maps, and illustrations the different regions, climates, cities, and wildlife of this fascinating country.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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Description
"This newly revised edition of Visiting a Village is an ideal introduction to understanding the concept of community. Children will learn how the people in early communities worked together with a spirit of cooperation by trading their goods and services with each other. Knowing about what they might see on their first visit to a historic site will help spark a child's curiosity. In this book, they will meet such individuals as the miller, the sawyer,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
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Description
"In this newly revised edition of Colonial Life, young readers will meet the hardworking people of a colonial community, learn about the importance of family members, and discover the roles that religion and education played in people's lives more than two hundred years ago. They will also learn about how people traveled from place to place, how adults and children spent their leisure time, how a plantation was run, and the impact of the slave trade"--...
4) The Kitchen
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
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Description
"This newly revised edition describes how the kitchen was the center of family activity in the old days. Here families ate their meals, played games, and told stories with only the fireplace and a few candles for warmth and light. In the Kitchen, young readers will take a close look at the early fireplace and the tools and utensils surrounding it. Domestic chores carried out in the kitchen are described including baking bread, making butter, preserving...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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Description
"In this newly revised edition, John and his sister Emily live with their family in a farming community. After rising at sun-up to do their chores on the farm and in the household, John and Emily's day begins with a long walk to the one-room school. A Child's Day also describes reading and ciphering, "making their manners," the different expectations boys and girls had for their future, children's books, toys, and games"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
"This newly revised edition describes how building a school was a priority once an early community became established. Students of all ages shared one teacher and the same four walls year after year. A One-Room School describes how the teacher, a respected member of the community, was entrusted with the responsibility of teaching reading, 'riting, and 'rithmetic. Children will enjoy seeing inside a one-room schoolhouse and discovering what subjects...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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Description
"This newly revised edition takes readers into a Colonial Home of the 1600s and 1700s. See inside the kitchen, the fireplace, the bedchamber and the barn. Learn why immigrants from England, France, and Spain were drawn to North America, and how plantations in the South grew and prospered through the slave trade"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Presents instructions for handicrafts and activities in the spirit of the pioneers, including decoupage, hooked rugs, corn-husk dolls, block and sponge printing, and making a Jacob's ladder.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1997]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Describes the elaborate Yuletide customs of the period between 1837 and 1901, when Queen Victoria ruled Britain, and discusses how these customs were adopted and sometimes changed in the United States during the same period.
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Series
Language
Español
Description
Holidays, celebrations, and symbols are highlighted in this up-to-date fact-filled introduction to the United States. Spotlight on the United States of America looks at the colonial history of the U.S., its government, and some of its important leaders. Many colorful pictures, maps, and illustrations highlight the different regions, climates, cities, and wildlife of this fascinating country.
18) Early schools
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
IG 760L
Language
English
Description
Explores the schools attended by the early settlers from their homemade supplies to their rules and punishments.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
IG 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This colorful dictionary is a treasure trove of illustrated information about early life in colonial America. Topics include: colonial houses, a plantation and its outbuildings, wood and metalworkers and their tools, shops and shopkeepers, transportation, the apothecary, milliner, wigmaker, and many more.
20) In the barn
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This newly revised edition of In the Barn uses full-color pictures to show how the barn was the center of activity on an early farm. Different kinds of barns are clearly detailed from the English and bank style barns in wooded areas to the sod barns of the western prairies. Featured topics include the fun of a barn raising bee, the work of milking cows, winnowing grain, mucking out stalls, a tools and gadgets section, and seasonal activities including...
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