The Monster on Top of the Bed has many advantages. Many of which are FREE bonuses for those who purchase a Cooperative Learning subscription.  ($5 every two months, and you may cancel at any time.)

You’ll great discover how your children and grandchildren (or if you’re a teacher, your students) will benefit.

We will go over concepts in cooperative learning that will help you to motivate children and students. We’ll use e-mail as the primary vehicle to help with this.

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As you continue to receive e-mails, You’ll enjoy and be delighted with the sense the wonder and the enjoyment that your children will experience as they read and explore The Monster on Top of the Bed and the related assets.

On Line Access Bonus: Day One – e-Book Download

e-book formats allow you to read the book on your computer. We have .pdf and the multi-media DNL format by Desktop Author.

Today you receive your first e-book download: The Monster on Top of the Bed. You may be tempted to spend many enjoyable hours pouring over the book and it’s beautiful illustrations. You can even print out multiple copies for each of your children if you wish.   The normal price of this e-book is $14.95.  The cumulative value to you to date  is $14.95.

On Line Access Bonus: Day Two – The Beginning of Cooperative Learning

Cooperative Learning is an exciting concept, as shown by this blog post from Mrs. B's Blogging Bonanza

According to Wikipedia, “Cooperative learning is an approach to organizing classroom activities into academic and social learning experiences. Students must work in groups to complete the two sets of tasks collectively. Everyone succeeds when the group succeeds.”
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative_learning

Check your e-mail in box, because today you will receive your free discussion questions! Sit down with your children, grandchildren or students and talk with them about this book. Children love to talk about things that they have read and these discussion questions make conversation easy and make your children think about what they have read. It’s also a enjoyable way to foster literacy and English at school.  The discussion questions are part of a lesson plan that sells for $4.95.  Your cumulative value is now $14.95 + $4.95 = $19.90.

On Line Access Bonus: Day Three – Hear the story in English

You will receive links to .mp3 files which read the full story page by page in English, and these are free. You and your children can sit around the computer and argue about which performer did best! Most importantly the files are keys to building discussions and they motivate children to think of reasons for choosing a certain performer. Discussion does more than make them think. It helps them to enjoy learning because they are discovering information, and that is exciting. The price of English version of the .mp3 files on is $9.95.  Your cumulative value received is  $19.90+ $9.95 =$29.85.

On Line Access Bonus: Day Eight – Move Over Dora the Explorer

Move over Dora the Explorer, now there’s a new way to teach your kids Spanish and for free! Today you will receive an e-mail with links to .mp3 files to the book read page-by-page in Spanish. This fun multi-cultural approach gives children a way to discover the beauty of Spanish, and you can use the one of the versions of the book (e-book, e-book that you print, booklet that fits into the CD, big book, CD, and or .mp3 files) to translate. Have fun with your children and laugh as you laugh about not being able to pronounce long unfamiliar words,. This is a great way to introduce your kids to a new language, and it’s fun so they’ll enjoy participating. That’s cooperative learning at its best.  These are also available on a CD for $9.95, but you get the .mp3 versions for free as part of your subscription. Your cumulative value received is  $29.85+ $9.95 =$39.80.  (So far you’ve invested only $5.00.)

On Line Access Bonus: Day Five – Opportunity to purchase the 36-Page Full-Color Booklet and CD

Booklet that fits into a CD Case and a CD that reads The Monster on Top of the Bed in three languages

Today  you receive a special link to purchase the CD and the full-color 36-page booklet, that conveniently fits into the CD case for $14.95 instead of $19.95.  You do not need to buy this item because you already have the e-book version, but if you want to order it, we give you $5.00 off, just for being a subscriber.

Children will love reading the small CD-sized booklet. It’s easy for them to hold. (You can buy extra copies, or you can print extra copies from the e-book that you’ve already received.) Teachers and librarians: you are able to project the e-book onto a screen and have the CD play alongside with it.

On Line Access Bonus: Day Six – Links to Audio Files that Read Poetry

We'll send you links to poems, and also check out the Virtual Loft which is the Evanston Public Library's Online Teen Space

Run back to your computer, because today we will e-mail you links to an audio file that reads poetry. Listening to poems inspires children and broaden their creativity. Also these poems will help build self-esteem and confidence in your children.

On Line Access Bonus: Day Seven – An Opportunity to Read a Story That Makes Christmas Even More Special

Here is another opportunity to sit down with your children and read because we will send you links to the story, The Birthday Snowman. This free opportunity allows you and your children to sit down and enjoy another heart-warming story together. In this story discover a girl who feels cheated. Why? Her birthday it is the same day as Christmas. There is good news. She finds happiness and joy, and passes it along to her children. If you know anyone who is born near a holiday you will want to share this story with them. You can buy it separately, but it’s free to subscribers.

Everything we have just discussed is shared with you in just one week. Don’t feel rushed though. You can take your time to explore all of these marvelous assets, or you can explore some of them and explore other things because this is just the beginning of your subscription. My next post reveals what Week Two holds in store for you.

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On this site, we offer a variety of activities that help you to use this book to foster children’s creativity.  Click here to explore them.