Language Arts & Disciplines

What if every single student loved to read? Isn't it likely that curiosity, creativity, and achievement would skyrocket? It's time to build a culture of readers at your school In Hacking Literacy, classroom teacher, author, and reading consultant Gerard Dawson reveals 5 simple ways...

This book provides curriculum-aligned, progressive questions and answers that align with elementary Language Arts learning targets, Preschool-5th Grade Many of the questions represent "I CAN" content standards. It serves to empower parents and HOMESCHOOL families to empower their kids with essential knowledge The Language...

For book publishers large and small: the #1 guide to creating and distributing metadata for maximum sales. The Metadata Handbook shows how metadata works, enhancing findability, discoverability, and, of course, book sales. It introduces industry standards (think ONIX ) and best practices, and outlines...

Taking Yourself Seriously: Processes of Research and Engagement is designed for college students as well as more experienced professionals who want to further their development as researchers, writers, and agents of change. A wide range of tools and processes for research, writing, and collaboration...

"Writing in the Glory is sure to inspire you with courage to birth the message God has placed inside you. I pray that as you read Writing in the Glory, you are overshadowed by the Holy Spirit, marked by the love of Jesus, and...

Who was America's most important Civil War president? For those of us who live in the South it wasn't Abraham Lincoln, it was Jefferson Davis. If you're not as familiar with Davis as you are with Lincoln, it's not surprising: when the Northern victors...

The Accidental Aphorist is comprised of hundreds of reflections and aphorisms, maxims, pensees, fulminations and regrets, amusements, which have been gleaned from almost forty years of the author's notebooks. The far-ranging themes include the writing life, creativity, love, death, travel, art, soul, mythology and...

Stairway to Earth: How to Write a Serious Book is a book dedicated to helping authors write superb manuscripts. Veteran book consultant Bill Birchard details his unique 14-step process to writing serious nonfiction. Among the topics covered: -How to craft a crisp book message....

At last A journal and workbook specifically for grownups who write children's books.Award Finalist of the 2017 Best Book Awards.Since most children's writers say they want to write picture books, this journal and workbook is written with you in mind. Writers for older age...

Alexander Sperber was born in what was then the Austrian city of Czernowitz in 1897. As a child, he learned to write German in Hebrew characters, expressing the umlauts precisely by means of diacritical modifications. He received a Gymnasium education in Vienna. In Vienna,...

"There are three rules for writing a book," a famous author once said. "Unfortunately, no one knows what they are " To some extent, the process of writing a book is shrouded in mystery. Writing the Christian Nonfiction Book: Concept to Contract takes the...

Women, Writing, and Soul-Making: Creativity and the Sacred Feminine moves the reader to quiet depths, affirming what it is to embody and then write down one's truth. At once informative and inspirational, the book reveals its wisdom in layers, inviting the reader to return...

The creative author may select names for characters arbitrarily, accidentally, or as a matter of deliberate planning, but the names can make all the difference. James Bond, Uriah Heep, Dirk Pitt, Silas Marner, Ebenezer Scrooge - all examples of names intimately idenfified with their...

A new, completely revised and much extended edition of H. L. Mencken's well-known work first issued in a limited edition as a "preliminary inquiry" in 1919, this book is the most comprehensive treatise on the American dialect ever attempted. It almost exhausts the subject....

Have you struggled to expand your initial idea into a complete story? Plotting can be frustrating work What if there were a tool for this very problem, so you could navigate these uncharted waters as quickly as possible? A tool that starts with what...

Can low-profile, not-yet-famous authors get published and sell lots of books? This multiple award winning book says "Yes " and tells how. "...a comprehensive guide to marketing a book... a] well-written, engaging resource that's loaded with specific tips.... Brimming with creative ideas, Sell More...

Through the explanations, examples, and exercises in this guide, the author emphasizes using syntax and logic to connect sentences and teach users to connect the information of their prose and thus please readers by the clarity of their writing. He introduces various grammatical concepts...

Many people are crippled in their personal and professional lives by a deep fear of public speaking. They avoid leadership roles at work, cower in group settings, and can't seem to put their feelings and ideas into words-even with loved ones. As a result,...

This guide brings the language of mind, heart and spirit to conflict resolution and personal or professional relationships. It includes clear explanations, many real-world examples and activities to deepen understanding and foster skills. Includes month-by-month daily practices.Author: Arlene BrownellPublisher: Arlene BrownellPublished: 02/25/2007Pages: 220Binding Type:...

Join Kristen Clark, award winning author and frequent contributor for Chicken Soup for the Soul, and her husband, Dr. Lawrence J. Clark, author, speaker, and university writing professor, as they share their experience writing and publishing inspirational short stories, and reveal their insider's view...