Language Arts & Disciplines

The perfect way to begin your students' school day! Cross-curricular daily practice gets your first grade students focused and engaged--and ready to learn. The daily lessons provide practice of language, math, and reading skills that support your core curriculum. The meaningful 10 to 15...

"Memoir writers, buy this book, put it on your personal altar, or carry it with you as you traverse the deep ruts of your old road." --Tom Spanbauer, author of The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon Old Friend from Far Away...

The acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others--with an introduction by John Updike.In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds...

Something is wrong with American journalism. Long before "fake news" became the calling card of the Right, Americans had lost faith in their news media. But lately, the feeling that something is off has become impossible to ignore. That's because the majority of our...

The long-awaited follow-up to the perennially bestselling writers' guide Story, from the most sought-after expert in the art of storytelling. Robert McKee's popular writing workshops have earned him an international reputation. The list of alumni with Oscars runs off the page. The cornerstone of...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world's most powerful nations. Just a century ago, it was a crumbling empire with literacy reserved for the...

A Brilliant, Buoyant Guide to Publishing Your Book Hundreds of thousands of books come out every year worldwide. So why not yours? In The Book Bible, New York Times bestseller and wildly popular Manhattan writing professor Susan Shapiro reveals the best and fastest ways...

An expert guide to how conversation works, from how we know when to speak to why huh is a universal wordWe all had teachers who scolded us over the use of um, uh-huh, oh, like, and mm-hmm. But as linguist N. J. Enfield reveals...

From veteran teacher and acclaimed author Joni B. Cole comes the revised and expanded edition of her popular writing guide Good Naked. Once again, Cole's humor and wisdom shine through as she debunks long-held misconceptions of how we're supposed to write, replacing them with...

In this witty "how-to" guide, Wislawa Szymborska has nothing but sympathy for the labors of would-be writers generally: "I myself started out with rotten poetry and stories," she confesses in this collection of pieces culled from the advice she gave--anonymously--for many years in the...

WHAT IS THE STORY GRID? The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what...

Master ELA standards at 3 reading levels! Increase students' text-dependent comprehension and scaffold students into complex texts with this 120-page reproducible book including: multiple levels of each passage for quick and easy differentiation; mini-lessons focused on specific genres; graphic organizers; critical thinking and text-dependent...

New title in the colourful Blank Artisan Notebook collection by Flame Tree Studio, in a range of hues to suit the mood and the moment, and crafted with decorated edges overflowing with petals, teasing vines and patterns. Blank Artisan Notebooks, the new Journals from...

In The Black Side of the River, sociolinguist Jessi Grieser draws on ten years of interviews with dozens of residents of Anacostia-a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, DC-to explore the impact of urban change on Black culture, identity, and language. Grieser's work is a...

The convention-breaking creative process of New York's busiest speechwriter, offering a holistic approach to crafting every kind of speech.The ability to express yourself in words has become both a rite of passage and an essential skill for anyone who wants to make a difference...

In Sacred Journaling, teacher, writer, traveler, and social activist Leilani Barnett teaches readers how to blend the use of self-reflective journaling, self-awareness, and the art of writing to reshape one's life to fit its ideal purpose. Each chapter focuses on an area for positive...

Learning Ukrainian language? In this book you'll find 100 easy texts in Ukrainian, and 60 minutes of audio is available online. The book helps not just to learn the words but to use them! This edition contains fun exercises to complement your learning. This...

Never have writer's block again.5,000 Writing Prompts is an essential resource for novelists, short story writers, screenwriters, poets, creative writing teachers, bloggers, memoir writers, improv actors, and other creators and storytellers.It includes...150 plot ideas for each of these genres: fantasy, science fiction, mystery, romance,...

Improve your handwriting skills and calm your mind with this lovely, inviting companion workbook to The Lost Art of Handwriting. Practice your penmanship to perfection with this helpful handbook to mastering beautiful handwriting. Brenna Jordan of Calligraphy by Brenna and author of The Lost...

Use your course's big ideas to accelerate students' growth as writers and critical thinkers The newly revised third edition of Engaging Ideas delivers a step-by-step guide for designing writing assignments and critical thinking activities that engage students with important subject-matter questions. This new edition...