Language Arts & Disciplines

Relatable, student-centered content combined with essential academic-skill instruction make the new six-level Reflect series unique. As students interact with the engaging content, they not only master English but also navigate their place in the world. Reflect builds students' confidence and helps them achieve their...

Relatable, student-centered content combined with essential academic-skill instruction make the new six-level Reflect series unique. As students interact with the engaging content, they not only master English but also navigate their place in the world. Reflect builds students' confidence and helps them achieve their...

Teach reading comprehension skills and nonfiction text structures to your first-grade students! Choose from 10 units that span a variety of grade-level topics or use them all! Illustrated nonfiction minibooks and two-page selections in this grade 2 book include a variety of content-area topics:...

In Psalms 89-105, Jennifer Brown Jones provides a foundational examination of the Greek text of the book. The analysis is distinguished by the detailed yet comprehensive attention paid to the text. Jones' exposition is a convenient pedagogical and reference tool that explains the form...

Racine's play Ph dre--which draws on Euripides' tragedy Hippolytus--is the supreme achievement of French neoclassic theater. In her amusing foreword, Margaret Rawlings explains how this particular translation--made specifically from the actor's point-of-view--evolved from the 1957 Campbell Allen production. Containing both the French and English...

Lonely Planet's Korean Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Korean phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Order kimchi with ease, navigate road signs and chat with locals; all with your trusted...

This book gives all teachers in grades 5-12 practical strategies for building the unique literacy skills that students need for success in their respective subject areas. Drawing from interviews with leading educators and professionals in science, mathematics, history, the arts, and other disciplines, the...

For many Latin students, the second year of study marks an exciting turning point. Having learned the basics of grammar and vocabulary, they are finally ready to encounter "real" Latin authors, usually Caesar or Cicero, for the first time. Yet these same students often...

In teaching second language (L2) vocabulary, it is useful to have a way of prioritizing words to teach from among the multitude available. Word frequency, i.e. how often various words appear in written and spoken discourse, has typically been used to inform the emphasis...

For anyone who wants to make fewer (not less) grammar mistakes, this "passionate, enlightening, and easily navigable manual is certainly the right book at the right time" (Publishers Weekly)--reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves. Our language is changing, literary...

This Perfect Cursive Handwriting Workbook For Kids as a Gift to Them.1. Tracing Upper and Lower Case Cursive Letters2. Writing Sight Words3. Joining Uppercase to Lower Case Letters4. Writing Sentences5. Writing NumbersAuthor: Mia LucyPublisher: Independently PublishedPublished: 03/12/2021Pages: 102Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w...

A highly original account of the role that fear plays in key First Amendment cases ruled on by the Roberts Supreme Court In Fear and the First Amendment, Kevin A. Johnson and Craig R. Smith offer a deeply considered examination of the ways fear...

A concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world's languages--or, approximately 4,000 languages--are endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have...

Spoken on Kurima, a miniscule island in the Miyakojima municipality in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, Kurima-Miyako is a South Ryukyuan topolect, a regional variant of the Miyako language. With most fluent speakers aged 80 or older and the island's depopulation progressing, the topolect of Kurima...

Author: Samantha MineroffPublisher: Samantha MineroffPublished: 06/07/2024Pages: 76Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.25lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20dISBN: 9798990761209This title is not returnable

Author: Kristin HenrichPublisher: Assoc of College & Research LibrariesPublished: 07/17/2024Pages: 304Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.63dISBN: 9798892555470

Responding to a comprehension question is a surprisingly complex task. It draws on multiple skills: students must be able to read and analyze a text passage; consider what aspect of the text the question addresses; and then quickly and concisely write about their ideas,...

Why do good things cut the mustard? Who or what was the real Real McCoy? And why do we call false sentiment crocodile tears? Can crocodiles really cry? In What Made the Crocodile Cry?, Susie Dent draws on her popular television segment on the...

This book compares Trump and Hitler as political performance artists. It explores their populist self-staging and rhetorical strategies and explains how they connected with their respective audiences. It also analyses the two men's character, work ethic, and management style. In addition, the book addresses...

This book is an encyclopedic survey of second language acquisition research as it has developed over the last forty years. It provides sections on learner language, the role of the linguistic environment and social context, internal mechanisms, individual learner differences, and the role of...