Language Arts & Disciplines

A Student Guide to Chaucer's Middle English shows where Chaucer's English came from, when it developed, and especially how to pronounce it. The guide contains information on the International Phonetic Alphabet, iambic pentameter, and the Great Vowel Shift. It also has word lists and...

Prime Your Freelance Writing Career for Success So you want to be a freelance writer. Great But now you're faced with a laundry list of questions: Should I freelance full time or part time? Should I write for magazines, newspapers, or online markets? How...

Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find ways of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teacher, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basics, and that it...

Brilliantly observed and persuasively argued, Serving the Word, now in paperback, is an unprecedented look at the prevalence of literalism and the unexpected forms it takes in modern America's religious and secular life.Hailed as thoughtful [and] suggestive (The New York Review of Books), Serving...

This comprehensive phonics resource includes printables for phonemic awareness, decoding consonant and vowel sounds, syllabication, and more! Basic Phonics Skills, Level C (Grades 1-2) features 238 reproducible skill sheets and 20 reproducible Little Phonics Readers. The book is organized as follows: Long and Short...

This comprehensive phonics resource includes printables for phonemic awareness, decoding consonant and vowel sounds, syllabication, and more! Basic Phonics Skills, Level B (Grades K-1) features 238 reproducible skill sheets and 20 reproducible Little Phonics Readers. The book is organized as follows: Beginning and Ending...

Provide your students with the inspiration they need to develop the vocabulary, ideas, and enthusiasm that will make their writing shine! Creative Writing Ideas comes with a wide variety of creative activities that can be used for prewriting and drafting or as stand-alone activities....

The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare in which a merchant in 16th-century Venice must default on a large loan provided by an abused Jewish moneylender. It is believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a...

The field of text technologies is a capacious analytical framework that focuses on all textual records throughout human history, from the earliest periods of traceable communication--perhaps as early as 60,000 BCE--to the present day. At its core, it examines the material history of communication:...

This Working Memory Activities book features a variety of highly engaging and inventive exercises that will help to improve your students' memory abilities. To be efficient learners, children need to hold information in their memory just long enough to sort and manipulate it. Children...

The greatest vocal coach in the world will help you get the voice you want.Every time we open our mouths, we have an effect on ourselves and the way others perceive us. The ability to speak clearly and confidently can make or break a...

Learn more than 3,000 of the most common and essential English words and phrases through English for Everyone's method for learning, practicing, and retaining practical language skills.Ideal for English test preparations or ESL lesson plans, the English Vocabulary Builder uses visual teaching methods to...

Many tens of thousands of preservice and inservice teachers have relied on this highly regarded text from leading experts, now in a revised and updated sixth edition. The latest knowledge about literacy teaching and learning is distilled into flexible strategies for helping all PreK-12...

Praying in Latin has been part of Catholic life for almost 2,000 years. Each Latin prayer, whether prayed in public worship, or in private contemplation, is saturated with the very rich history of the Catholic Church. The place of Latin prayer thus forms an...

Margaret Magnus is a programmer and linguist, and one of the most prominent researchers in the branch of linguistics known as sound symbolism. This book is a non-technical introduction to an expanded understanding of how the form of a word -- its sound --...

Do you want to develop a solid understanding of Polish and communicate confidently with others?Through authentic conversations, vocabulary building, grammar explanations and extensive practice and review, Complete Polish will equip you with the skills you need to use Polish in a variety of settings...

Understanding Everyday Incivility delves into the day-to-day annoying behaviors that color our interactions with other people, such as the use of crude language in public, family members who claim that they're "just teasing" and we're "too sensitive," coworkers who constantly interrupt us, and inflammatory...

Author: Carla MyersPublisher: Libraries UnlimitedPublished: 10/05/2022Pages: 294Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.00w x 0.80dISBN: 9781440862038About the AuthorCarla Myers is assistant professor and coordinator of scholarly communications for the Miami University Libraries, Ohio. She is a recipient of the Robert L. Oakley Memorial Scholarship.

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From the organization of a speech to knowing your audience, your vocals, and the delivery, this essential guide covers an entire course on public speaking yet is handy enough to reference throughout your speech preparation. With more preparation comes more confidence and with added...