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These are best boxed book sets on Amazon! (As judged by me the children’s books that my own kids love.) These giant boxed book sets make great Christmas gifts for kids. Boxed sets make reading fun for even reluctant readers. Some of these are classic children’s book series. Others are current popular elementary school books series and others work better for older kids and teens. All of these book series are well loved by my own kids.
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The Artemis Fowl movie is finally coming! Read on to watch the Artemis Fowl movie trailer, find out the Artemis Fowl movie release date, AND get tips on how to use the movie to motivate a boy to read!
Photo from Disney Studios
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Books for presents? You might be afraid that doesn’t sound very exciting. But a big set of books in a boxed set is colorful and exciting! Here are the best books to give as a set from my own kids’ favorite book series.
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This is a list of my daughter’s favorite books in 5th grade. My daughters already loved reading at this point, so their choices could be pretty advanced. If you’re daughter isn’t really into reading yet, be sure to also check out my list of best books for girls in 4th grade.
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Great Expectations is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.
Great Expectations (2012) is not as gloomy, grungy, and violent as the first scenes and trailer suggest. …
Becoming Jane, about Jane Austen’s young romance with a Mr. Lefroy that may have inspired her books, is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills. It’s based on the book Becoming Jane Austen, by Jon Hunter….
The Pride and Prejudice BBC mini-series is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.
There’s a reason that this Pride and Prejudice BBC mini-series is the iconic Jane Austen movie. …
Pride and Prejudice is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.
My main impression looking back on this movie is “brown,” like the entire movie had a brown tone. But, that’s not to say it wasn’t a good movie; it will keep your interest and the plot is easy to follow. It’s just not as colorful as our favorite, Emma.…
The Emma BBC mini-series is another movie that we watched for improving SAT vocabulary and reading skills.
The Emma BBC television mini-series doesn’t seem to stick as closely to the original as the Pride and Prejudice BBC series. …
Watching movies to improve your SAT score? This past summer I’ve been watching movies with my daughters to work on their reading comprehension for the SAT.
Emma is a great movie to watch to improve your SAT reading vocabulary score. It is by far our favorite of the Jane Austen movies. As luck would have it, or maybe because we started with this one, it was the first of many literary movies we’ve watched with SAT prep in mind. My girls loved it!
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