Language Arts & Disciplines
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Easy English Vocabulary GamesOver 65 games, including anagrams, hidden words, crossword puzzles, and scrambled sentences help users learn basic vocabulary skills. Includes answer key.Author: Linda Schinke-LlanoPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 02/09/1992Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.26dISBN: 9780844274157About the AuthorSchinke-Llano, Linda: - McGraw-Hill authors represent the...
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The Makerspace Librarian's SourcebookLibrary makerspaces continue to thrive, drawing new patrons in and engaging them as never before. This hands-on sourcebook technology expert Kroski includes everything libraries need to know about the major topics, tools, and technologies relevant to makerspaces today. Packed with cutting edge instruction and...
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60 Ready-to-Use Coding ProjectsThe lessons of ALA's Libraries Ready to Code initiative are conclusive: your library can make a difference in developing computational thinking in children, teens, and even adults. And you don't even need to be a techie to make it happen; in fact, many activities...
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Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives: Developing, Managing, and Sustaining Unique Digital CollectionsPlanning and managing a self-contained digitization project is one thing, but how do you transition to a digital library program? Or better yet, how do you start a program from scratch? In this book Purcell, a well-respected expert in both archives and digital libraries,...
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Creating Inclusive Library Environments: A Planning Guide for Serving Patrons with DisabilitiesAuthor: Michelle Kowalsky, John WoodruffPublisher: ALA EditionsPublished: 10/31/2016Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9780838914854Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 99Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2017This title is only available via back order
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Step Into Storytime: Using Storytime Effective Practice to Strengthen the Development of Newborns to Five-Year-OldsStory Time Effective Practice (STEP), developed by the authors, is an approach that articulates the link between child development theory and storytimes. This important resource shows how presenters can use STEP to craft a storytime that is effective for mixed-age groups and adheres to...
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Maxwell's Handbook for RDA: Explaining and Illustrating RDA: Resource Description and Access Using MARC 21"In this clear and comprehensive resource, cataloging expert Maxwell brings his trademark practical commentary to bear on the new, unified cataloging standard. Designed to interpret and explain RDA: Resource Description and Access, this handbook illustrates and applies the new cataloging rules in the MARC21...
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Storytime Magic: 400 Fingerplays, Flannelboards, and Other ActivitiesThis time-saving resource includes thematic organization to make programme planning easy, recommended books for each theme, easy-to-follow craft and flannelboard patterns, and quick tips boxes that enhance the early literacy component.Author: Kathy MacMillan, Christine KirkerPublisher: ALA EditionsPublished: 01/01/2009Pages: 139Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 10.90h x...
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Readers' Advisory Service in the Public LibraryDo you have anything else like this? In public libraries, reference librarians are often called on to make recommendations to readers, sometimes in genres that they don't personally read. Learning how to frame a discussion and articulate the appeal of a book, author, or...
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Irrepressible ReformerDrawing from rare archival materials researched over a period of 15 years, preeminent Dewey historian Wayne Wiegand has produced the first frank and comprehensive biography of the man behind the Dewey Decimal Classification System and scores of other enduring achievements. Tracing Dewey's life and...
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The God Conversation: Using Stories and Illustrations to Explain Your FaithThink of it this way . . . Our beliefs are challenged from many directions. Every day it seems more difficult to explain to our friends, families, and neighbors what we believe and why. When our ideas and arguments fail to persuade them, what...
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Dictionary of Jewish WordsOrganized in an A to Z format for easy reference, the Dictionary of Jewish Words contains 1,200 entries derived from Yiddish, Hebrew, Aramaic, and English. The entries include words for and associated with Jewish holidays and life-cycle events, culture, history, the Bible and other...
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Japanese Linguistics: An IntroductionThis introduction to Japanese linguistics is designed to introduce students to all of the main areas of the subject. What makes this book distinct from other textbooks on Japanese linguistics is that linguistics is introduced by means of authentic texts which students might encounter...
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Introduction to Systemic Functional Linguistics: 2nd EditionNew edition of a best-selling introduction to systemic functional linguistics explores the social semiotic approach to language most closely associated with the work of Michael Halliday and his colleagues. An approach which views language as a strategic, meaning-making resource, systemic linguistics focuses on the...
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Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic CuriositiesFrom aardvark to zenzizenzizenzic, Word Drops collects a thousand obscure words and language facts in one fascinating chain of word associations. Did you know, for example, that scandal derives from the Latin for "stumbling block" and originally described a trap for a wild animal?...
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Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1, Second EditionThis is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 1, the third volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series' volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodology--contextualization, learner-centeredness, use of...
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Aozora: Intermediate-Advance Japanese Communication-2nd Ed.Aozora develops intermediate students' oral and written communicative skills and provides insights into Japanese society and culture. The text encourages students to participate actively in a variety of authentic and intellectually stimulating activities. An instructor's guide is available separately. Replaces audio CDs with online...
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Critical Rhythm: The Poetics of a Literary Life FormThis book shows how rhythm constitutes an untapped resource for understanding poetry. Intervening in recent debates over formalism, historicism, and poetics, the authors show how rhythm is at once a defamiliarizing aesthetic force and an unstable concept. Distinct from the related terms to which...
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Cruising the Library: Perversities in the Organization of KnowledgeCruising the Library offers a highly innovative analysis of the history of sexuality and categories of sexual perversion through a critical examination of the Library of Congress and its cataloging practices. Taking the publication of Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Epistemologies of the Closet as emblematic...
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Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the AndesIn Beyond the Lettered City, the anthropologist Joanne Rappaport and the art historian Tom Cummins examine the colonial imposition of alphabetic and visual literacy on indigenous groups in the northern Andes. They consider how the Andean peoples received, maintained, and subverted the conventions of...
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