Language Arts & Disciplines

As a young journalist at the Brazil Herald from 1979-81, Stephen G. Bloom spent his early professional years working in Rio's seedy Lapa district, surrounded by fugitives, drug runners, pornographers, and stealth CIA agents. Bloom shares the wild story of this English-language newspaper in...

This anthology collects the nine winners of the 2023 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at UNT's Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. First place winner: Jennifer Berry Hawes for "Captive No More: One SC Man's Journey to Freedom after Years in Modern-Day Slavery," about how...

For AuthorsSo, you've been offered a book contract, or are considering going down the traditional publishing route. Congratulations! It's a bit of minefield, but this book will help you navigate the traditional publishing landscape, with chapters on: The stages of acquisition(how the book-commissioning process...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Telling Blackness begins with two simple premises: conventional models of the ways people make meaning of the world fail to account for the particularities of Blackness; and accounts of Black life often miss the significance of the smallest and subtlest acts that sustain it....

Cultivate a state of mind to help your writing flow with acclaimed writing instructor and Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Sarah Selecky.For over a decade, Sarah Selecky has been running an online writing school as a compassionate alternative to MFA programs for writers of all...

Using STEAM activities, this book places school librarians at the intersection with inquiry in an elementary school. Learners will think like a scientist and design like an engineer using an iterative process to make authentic learning connections and develop a growth mindset. Designed to...

Don't start with Why. Start with Story.Everyone has a story, which means anyone can be a storyteller.Because storytelling isn't just an art . . . it's a science.So what if you had a scientific method for sharing your insights? What if you could break...

Are you ready to revolutionize the way you teach literacy skills? Then it's time to unleash the power of sound in your English language arts classroom! Authors Hashem and Mooney make the case for why the mode of sound is worth your time and...

Together, librarians and specialists can create experiences to reach all learners in their buildings, including those with hidden needs and talents. While school librarians are experts at collaborating with classroom teachers, too often they overlook the specialists in their buildings as key collaborative partners....

Are you struggling to be understood in conversations? Do pronunciation errors leave you feeling frustrated and misunderstood? It's time to unlock the power of clear and confident speech with "Say It Correctly!"This comprehensive guide dives into the heart of common pronunciation mistakes, offering practical...

Grounded in the best current knowledge, this book shows how to implement response to intervention (RTI) in middle and high school contexts. Detailed guidelines are presented for teaching reading comprehension, vocabulary, and other aspects of literacy across the content areas, and for providing effective...

Discover the transformative power of picturebooks in secondary English language arts (ELA) classrooms! Not only do picturebooks increase student engagement and comprehension, but they also provide additional content and context, improve multimodal literacy, ignite creativity, and, when read aloud, can turn a classroom into...

A critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literature On Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: "Hebrew revival," or the idea that Hebrew--a largely unspoken language before the twentieth century--was revitalized as part...

Die Studie untersucht die Variation und Perzeption einiger morpho(phono)logischer Ph?nomene im Luxemburgischen. Mithilfe eines multiperspektivischen Ansatzes, d. h. einer inter- und intraindividueller Variationsanalyse sowie einer quantitativen und qualitativen Perzeptionsstudie gelingt erstmals eine systematische Beschreibung ebendieser Variation.Author: Peter Gilles, Nathalie EntringerPublisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler...

The third reader begins with lessons on articulation and marks and pauses (punctuation). The articulation lesson reviews some of the words from the last half of the second reader, while the punctuation instruction provides a brief overview of the basic punctuation marks and their...

La lengua es para usarla, no para obedecerla. Ante la inminente derrota en una discusi?n por internet quien lleva las de perder ve una posibilidad para coronarse como (falso) ganador en burlarse de c?mo habla su oponente. Pero qu? importancia tiene que nuestro registro...

Goethe's epistolary novel The Sorrows of Young Werther, first published in 1774, has produced a global echo that rivals contemporary bestsellers. While in the German context, the book was always outshined by its famous author, patriotic writers in Italy and China saw their lives...

Enrich student engagement and deepen learning with this guide to foolproof techniques and strategies to integrate primary sources and literature to benefit learners from kindergarten through high school. Readers of all ages experience literature in a different light when historical context is provided via...

Spelling is the art of expressing words by their proper letters. This important art is to be acquired rather by means of the spelling-book or dictionary, and by observation in reading, than by the study of written rules; because what is proper or improper,...