Language Arts & Disciplines

Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and they'll love their English lessons too. This new edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life through more than 30 beautifully illustrated stories...

I want to write a book. Where do I start?Are you thinking of writing a novel or a nonfiction book but aren't sure where to begin? Perhaps you've heard of the Snowflake Method, the 30-Day Method, the 5-Draft Method, outlining, plotters and pantsers, but...

Rhyming helps children learn about word families such as let, met, pet, wet, and get. Rhyming also teaches children the sound of the language. Other essential skills include phonological awareness, the ability to notice and work with the sounds in language. Recognizing rhyming words...

This book was originally published in 1870. At the time, George Mackenzie Bacon was a medical superintendent at Cambridgeshire County Asylum (now Fulbourn Hospital) near Cambridge, England. The slim volume offers Bacon's observations on the idiosyncrasies of his patients' handwriting.Following On the Writing of...

Library Services to Homeschoolers: A Guide will help librarians understand and serve their homeschooling community. Chapter 1 covers the early history of homeschooling and how compulsory education changed how our children were schooled. Chapter 2 explores the homeschool revolution, when parents began to take...

Este libro ofrece un acercamiento a la sociolingüística y al estudio del lenguaje y la sociedad, que luego se aplica al análisis del español hablado en Estados Unidos. Además de proporcionar información clave sobre la demografía y la historia del español en dicho país,...

APEX Test Prep's GRE Prep 2021 and 2022: GRE Study Book with Practice Test Questions for the Graduate Record Exam [6th Edition Review Guide] APEX Test Prep believes that preparing for the GRE exam shouldn't be harder than the test itself. To that end,...

The Beryl Cook Set of 3 Mini Notebooks features a collection of three mini, foiled notebooks with alternating lined and blank pages. Each notebook has a different beautiful design: Clubbing in the Rain, Getting Ready and Strip Poker. With a sturdy cover and rounded...

Analysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure.The book covers key concepts such as constituency, category and functions, and uses tree diagrams throughout to help the reader visualise the structure of sentences. The fifth edition of...

What are the components of a quality education ESL program? TESOL's Standards for Adult Education ESL Programs answers this question by defining quality components from a national perspective. Using program indicators in eight distinct areas, the standards can be used to review an existing...

New Ways in Teaching with Humor explores the whole gamut of possibilities for using humor in English language teaching. Find ideas for beginning to advanced students, 5-minute activities to start a class on a humorous note to multiday projects, and silly English puns and...

Your life is extra-ordinary. The things you see, the places you go, the people you meet are full of so many stories, adventures, tiny miracles and big moments. But are you capturing them? Are you savouring those images and experiences or are you letting...

Discover the language and learning possibilities of young children's active engagement with book experiences, in which they talk with one another as they make meaning from literature centered around their lives and interests. Drawing from their backgrounds as teachers and researchers, as well as...

This is the first book to consider the development of all three cultural heritage institutions - libraries, archives, and museums - and their interactions with society and culture from ancient history to the present day in Western Europe, the United Kingdom, and the United...

This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country's media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contributions from experts...

Updated to reflect the latest technological innovations and challenges, the fourth edition of Social Media: How to Engage, Share, and Connect helps students understand and successfully use today's social media tools as PR professionals and personal users. Regina (Gina) Luttrell presents a thorough history...

What role did America's newspaper advice columnists play in shaping and forming societal attitudes toward LGBTQ people throughout the 20th century? They served the dual function of offering advice and satisfying the curious. They also often provided the first mention of homosexuality outside of...

A seasoned writer and teacher of memoir explores both the difficulties inherent in writing about personal trauma and the techniques for doing so in a compelling way.Since 2013, David Chrisinger has taught military veterans, their families, and other trauma survivors how to make sense...

APEX Test Prep's ISEE Lower Level Test Prep: ISEE Study Guide and Practice Exam Questions 2nd Edition Book] APEX Test Prep believes that preparing for the ISEE Lower exam shouldn't be harder than the test itself. To that end, we pack our products with...

Centuries ago in middle Europe, a coded language appeared, scrawled in graffiti and spoken only by people who were wiz (in the know). This hybrid language, dubbed Rotwelsch, facilitated survival for people in flight--whether escaping persecution or just down on their luck. It was...