Language Arts & Disciplines

Deceptively simple and surprisingly addictive, Not Quite What I Was Planning is a thousand glimpses of humanity--six words at a time.One Life. Six Words. What's Yours?When Hemingway famously wrote, "For Sale: baby shoes, never worn," he proved that an entire story can be told...

Foreword by Jamie Campbell Naidoo Get ready to break out of your storytime routine by encouraging children's natural instincts to move, sing, and play! Unlike traditional storytimes, where children are expected to sit quietly and just watch, music and movement storytimes encourage children to...

High-interest reproducible informational passages provide text-marking practice that help students read closely, build comprehension skills, and meet higher standards.High-interest reproducible informational passages provide text-marking practice that help students read closely, build comprehension skills, and meet higher standards.The higher standards students today are expected to...

French Vocabulary Workbook50 French Vocabulary Activities for Daily PracticeLooking to expand your French vocabulary with daily practice? The French Vocabulary Workbook offers 50 targeted activities designed to help high beginners to intermediate learners build essential vocabulary in a fun and engaging way.Each chapter focuses...

French Grammar Workbook50 French Grammar and Conjugation Activities for Daily PracticeAre you looking for more daily French practice?Look no further! Introducing the French Grammar Workbook, a collection of 50 targeted daily activities designed to help high beginners to intermediate learners master the most common...

Author: Jeff ZwiersPublisher: Jossey-BassPublished: 04/07/2014Pages: 336Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.25h x 7.00w x 0.90dISBN: 9781118744857About the AuthorJEFF ZWIERS, EdD, is a senior researcher at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. He consults internationally on language and literacy instruction, curriculum development, and teacher education...

Thirteen autobiographical accounts of language revitalization, ranging from Irish Gaelic to Mohawk, Kawaiisu to Māori, are brought together by Leanne Hinton, professor emerita of linguistics at UC Berkeley.Throughout the world individuals in the intimacy of their homes innovate, improvise, and struggle daily to pass...

In the wee hours of the night, when inspiration strikes unexpectedly, don't let it slip away. If you write, you know what it's like. Insight and creativity--the desire to push the boundaries of your writing--strike when you least expect it. And you're often in...

Build Spelling Skills with Fun, Daily Practice for Fourth Graders!180 Days(TM) of Spelling and Word Study for 4th Grade Workbook Features: A full page of easy-to-follow practice for every day of the school year Age-appropriate activities that build spelling and word study skills Weekly...

It's Shel Silverstein meets Strunk and White and the results are both hilarious and instructive. With over 120 illustrations and gobs of delightfully goofy examples and exercises, this book provides a lighthearted and ludicrous guide to the essential elements of language and grammar...not to...

The Call of Stories presents a study of how listening to stories promotes learning and self-discovery.Author: Robert ColesPublisher: HarperOnePublished: 01/05/1990Pages: 212Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80dISBN: 9780395528150About the AuthorColes, Robert: - Robert Coles is a winner of the National Medal of...

A complete guide to the art and craft of creative nonfiction-from one of its pioneer practitionersThe challenge of creative nonfiction is to write the truth in a style that is as accurate and informative as reportage, yet as personal, provocative, and dramatic as fiction....

With the threat to intellectual freedom increasing around the country, this book takes a look at the first ever school book ban case to be decided by the high courts, and offers insights into how we can use history to help the future. In...

Foreword by Cynthia Sturgis LandrumThe development of cultural competency skills and social awareness benefits LIS students, their future employers, and the library profession at large―not to mention library customers and society as a whole. Cooke's freshly updated text introduces readers to the contexts and...

Unmasking the rituals and cultural norms that define communities of artificial intelligence (AI) workers, Humans of AI demonstrates that there would be no AI without human intervention.Not a day goes by without breathless commentary on the increasing power of this innovative technology. Hype flows...

Author: Maggie SmithPublisher: Washington Square PressPublished: 06/23/2026Pages: 272Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.26lbsSize: 8.31h x 5.41w x 0.71dISBN: 9781982170899About the AuthorMaggie Smith is the award-winning New York Times bestselling author of nine books of poetry and prose, including A Suit or a Suitcase, You Could Make...

A singular and indispensable reference tool, The Describer's Dictionary--now expanded and updated--has served for over twenty years as the go-to resource for writers who are determined to capture the world in just the right words. The dictionary uses a unique reverse definition-to-term format that...

In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. Patricia Hill Collins' Black Feminist Thought has become a landmark book and the first to skilfully synthesize the many strands...

The classic million-copy bestselling handbook on reading aloud to children--revised and updated Recommended by "Dear Abby" upon its first publication in 1982, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic for more than three decades to help countless children become...

Since the fall of 2014, The Advice King has been one of the most widely read sections of alt-weekly the Nashville Scene. The Advice King Anthology contains the best of those columns, with new In-the-Meantime notes, a new introduction, and a foreword by writer...