Language Arts & Disciplines

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K-12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words. Grounded in research, the book explains how to select words for instruction, introduce their meanings, and...

When you finally have the opportunity to sit down and write, you want absolutely nothing to get in your way. In an ideal world, the ideas would flow from head to pen quickly and easily. You would have thousands of ideas at your fingertips....

This guide along with the others in Orange House's Guides to Writing Style teaches users the most common grammatical structures of English. It begins with simple ones and moves on to extremely complex ones. For many years it has been used by students from...

Literacy--it's not just for English teachers anymore! The new Common Core English Language Arts Standards aren't just for English teachers. Fluent reading and writing are critically important to the study of history/social studies, science, and technical subjects, too. In this practical resource, you'll use...

Do you want to bring clarity to your communication by: - getting to grips with the building blocks of Italian? - learning the right language for the right context? - speaking and writing with ease and style? In this course you'll find comprehensive and...

The fourth edition of the late Lois Mai Chan's classic Cataloging and Classification covers the analysis and representation of methods used in describing, organizing, and providing access to resources made available in or through libraries. Since the last edition published in 2007, there have...

How well can you decode the signs that permeate our daily lives? All of us, consciously or not, constantly engage in the acts of reading and interpreting the signs in the world around us. But how do we sharpen these skills, deepen our awareness...

Corpus linguistics uses specialist software to identify linguistic patterns in large computerised collections of text - patterns which then must be interpreted and explained by human researchers. This book critically explores how corpus linguistics techniques can help analysis of language and gender by conducting...

The 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. This textbook and comprehensive resource introduces students to the contexts and situations that promote...

Give your story its best start The best beginnings possess a magical quality that grabs readers from the first word and never lets them go. But beginnings aren't just the door into a fictional world. They are the gateway to the realm of publishing--one...

COVID-19's impacts revealed that teaching writing online was no longer merely an issue of convenience or economic necessity--it was critical to public health and equity concerns as well. Now higher education faces one of its greatest historical challenges, expanding online offerings to fully engage...

Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues offers a holistic look at Black culture in the twenty-first century. It is a collection of work that creates a synergy among authors and leads to a valuable resource on contemporary issues. Part One examines institutional, societal, and...

Students save money when purchasing bundled products. This bundle contains a loose-leaf version of Communicate! 15th Edition and access to MindTap Speech for 1 term (6 months) via printed access card. MindTap Speech�provides you with the tools you need to better manage�your limited time�you...

You save money when purchasing bundled products. This bundle contains the loose-leaf version of The Composition of Everyday Life, Concise, 6th Edition and access to MindTap English for 1 term (6 months) via printed access card. With a single sign in for MindTap, you...

The newest volume in Mike Ellis's best-selling Slanguage series will help you learn even more interesting French words and phrases. With this newest volume in the best-selling Slanguage series, author Mike Ellis provides translations and pronunciation guides for nearly 300 more French words and...

A fill-in book from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto, authors of the best-selling 642 Things series. Focus on a single aspect of the craft of writing with help from the San Francisco Writers' Grotto. Writing Character begins with an essay by author and educator...

The Second Edition of The SAGE Handbook of Persuasion: Developments in Theory and Practice provides readers with logical, comprehensive summaries of research in a wide range of areas related to persuasion. From a topical standpoint, this handbook takes an interdisciplinary approach, covering issues that...

In a world of rapid technological advancements, it can be easy to forget that writing is the original Information Technology, created to transcend the limitations of human memory and to defy time and space. The Writing Revolution picks apart the development of this communication...

A comprehensive illustrated baby sign language book with targeted advice based on your baby's age so you can easily communicate with your infant or toddler, ages 0-24 months.When a baby is first born, the primary way they have of communicating is through crying, which...

Multilingualism has become an increasingly common global phenomenon especially in the last two decades. Therefore, multilingual programmes have now been regarded as a cornerstone of education systems in many countries around the world. Learning multiple languages helps us plug into a globalised world and...