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Craig FromanMaster Books / 2010 / HardcoverOur Price$13.494.9 out of 5 stars for Passport to the World: Your A to Z Guided Tour. View reviews of this product. 14 Reviews
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Author Amanda BethMI5 Stars Out Of 5Loved it!November 3, 2011Author Amanda BethMIQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5My 10 yr old daughter loves this book. She's been keeping a journal of everything she learns from each country. She especially loves the passport. I'll probably buy another copy for each of my kids just for the passports. The pages are colorful and easy to read. My daughter enjoys learning about the different currencies and languages. I highly recommend this book!
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Anita Winder5 Stars Out Of 5Geograph with Language EmphasisNovember 1, 2014Anita WinderQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5This book is a big hit with the homeschool class I am teaching with children ages 5-12. We enjoy learning the words Hello, Goodbye, Thank You, and Peace in each language, as well as learning facts about the culture. Because it is an A to Z tour, it covers some languages and cultures that are unique. The opening pages show how to use the passport book (which is included inside the front cover with stickers for each page at the back of the book), a world map of your language journey showing the location of each place, and some history of languages. The photos and illustrations are colorful and appealing.
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Lynda AckertLittleton, COAge: 45-54Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Let the Journey Begin!January 29, 2011Lynda AckertLittleton, COAge: 45-54Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5If you are looking for a new book to spark adventurous learning, Passport to the World can open the door to many exciting new cross-curricular journeys.
What type of cross-curricular journeys can you create? Lessons in History, Geography, Math, Language Arts, Music, Science and even cooking can all stem from Passport to the World.
It begins at the beginning, the beginning of the dispersal of people upon the earth - at the Tower of Babel. God created multiple languages to confuse the people and they dispersed and began to cover the world, living in vastly different places and speaking different languages.
From there, the book will take you on a journey (A to Z) through 26 different destinations throughout the world and chosen by the language that is spoken. From Armenian to the Zulu language, children and students will learn how to say hello, goodbye, thank you and peace in 26 different languages!
At each stop along the way, you'll find interesting facts about each country in which a particular language is spoken. Photos of currency, traditional and current dress, food items and more fill the pages alongside many different facts about each destination. There's even a passport with visa stamps included for the journey!
As an experienced public school educator and a veteran homeschooler, I give Craig Froman's new book 5 stars! -
April EKSAge: 35-44Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Travel the world with your children ...January 20, 2011April EKSAge: 35-44Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 4Passport To The World takes children on a journey through 26 different languages and the countries they're associated with. The book even has its own passport inside the front cover so you can add a passport stamp as you study each language. (Stickers provided at the back of the book.) The passport has a proverb from each language group so you know right where to place the sticker, and learn another tidbit about that culture. There are additional boxes in the back of the passport, which can hold future stamps as your family studies additional countries not covered in this book.
Each letter of the alphabet covers a different language, the country it belongs to, the fast facts about that country, 4 key words in that language, photos of the country and its culture, and several trivia facts about the country or language. The fast facts about each country include its population, size, literacy rate, monetary unit, life expectancy rate, and a map of its location. With that information and the cultural photos included with each country, the children can travel the world in their imagination.
Passport To The World is a colorful book with quality photographs and maps to help our children learn about 26 different countries and languages. They may never actually travel to India and hear the Oriya language, but they can still learn about India and its culture. Each country's traditional folk dress is pictured, along with a person wearing modern clothing, so children can understand that they won't see wooden shoes on the feet of every child in Amsterdam.
My children greatly enjoyed Passport To The World. We left it laying on the coffee table, and I frequently found children flipping through its pages. "Hey, did you know ...?" punctuated the family conversations as children shared facts that they had read. Passport To The World lends itself well to a structured study, as well as a more casual learning experience. Elementary students could use it to cover one country a week, supplementing it with books about the country, its culture, and its folk tales.
Passport To The World is a valuable resource for Christian families and homeschools. Though it is written for children in the 9-12 age-group, all of my children enjoyed it. My 15 year old read it, my 7 year old read portions of it, and my 4 year old flipped through the pages, asking questions as she went. We give this book a Seal of Approval!
(This book was provided free for review purpose, and no other compensation was given. This is my honest opinion.) -
Mountaineer CountryWest VirginiaAge: 35-44Gender: female5 Stars Out Of 5Wonderful Book for Homeschool GeographyJanuary 18, 2011Mountaineer CountryWest VirginiaAge: 35-44Gender: femaleQuality: 5Value: 5Meets Expectations: 5We are having so much fun using this book as part of our geography lessons.
This book is a systematic introduction to 26 different counties, languages, and customs.
Each brightly colored two-page spread introduces the language spoken, the outline map of the country with surrounding countries, the flag, facts about the country, a child from the country explaining common customs, a picture of the money from the country, and translations of the words hello, goodbye, thank you, and peace. Even though the reading level of this book is suggested for older elementary aged children, I think much younger children would also be interested in this book as a read aloud.
There is a passport included with sticker "stamps" for each country that you "visit". In the back of the book, you will find unlabeled outline maps of the different countries and unlabeled flag pictures.
The way we have been using this book:
I have my daughter read about one country at a time. She looks at the map of the country and the surrounding countries. She also looks at the flag. I have my daughter put a small star sticker on the particular country on the map on the wall. We discuss any pertinent map information together. I then have my daughter read the information on the two pages. We discuss the information and the pictures. Then, we flip to the back of the book together and she locates the country she just read about. At this point, I have her identify the surrounding countries on the unlabeled map. I then have her identify the country's flag on the unlabeled flag page. Finally, I quickly quiz her on one or two prior countries and flags. This whole lesson takes about 15 minutes.
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