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There was a time-as recently as the 1980s-when storefronts, murals, banners, barn signs, billboards, and even street signs were all hand-lettered with brush and paint. But, like many skilled trades, the sign industry has been overrun by the techno-fueled promise of quicker and cheaper. The resulting proliferation of computer-designed, die-cut vinyl lettering and inkjet printers has ushered a creeping sameness into our visual landscape. Fortunately,...
4) City signs
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Children will delight in these bold photographs of familiar urban scenes and recognize that words are all around them.
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Yoko books (Rosemary Wells) volume 6
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When Yoko gets lost in the airport, she uses her sign-reading skills to find her way back to her mama.
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Indoor and outdoor signage can provide directions, warnings, and information. Some signs advertise products too. How can you tell which signs are ads? And how do they influence us? Readers will learn to identify and evaluate the advertisements they see on signs. Accessible text and explanatory photos help students understand the role of advertising in their lives.
9) Lettering & sign carving workbook: 10 skill-building projects for carving and painting custom signs
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We use signs everyday, to work out which way to go, to know if a shop is open or closed, to welcome guests and to mark a room as belonging to someone special, just to name a few. Hand carved wooden signs can add warmth and charm to any home or business. In the Lettering & Sign Carving Workbook, author and woodcarving instructor Betty Padden shares her designs and techniques for creating custom signs. With this book, even beginner woodcarvers can learn...
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A child who has not yet learned how to read looks out at the world and sees language as such a child would: as lines and squiggles that don't exactly make pictures but don't seem to make anything else either. Then, when the child starts to go to school and begins to learn his letters, his way of seeing begins to change.
12) Backseat A-B-see
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In this alphabet book, a child sees road signs from A to Z from the backseat of a car.
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In A journey down Route 66 and Route 66 revisited, host Michael Wallis gives a personal tour of the highway, interviewing people as he travels the historic road from Chicago to Los Angeles, and showing special attractions including tourist spots, quaint towns and historically significant locations. In Route 66 turns 75, Michael Wallis hits the road again reporting on what remains and what's changed along the historic highway.
15) I read signs
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Introduces signs and symbols frequently seen along the street.
18) I read symbols
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Introduces signs and symbols frequently seen along the highway.
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