Language Arts & Disciplines

After creating a grammar, there's the 800-pound gorilla of the lexicon to deal with. This book gives you everything you need to know to create words. The first stop is etymology: it contains thousands of etymologies from a wide variety of languages. Borrow them...

Author: T. StylesPublisher: Cartel PublicationsPublished: 01/06/2012Pages: 170Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.39dISBN: 9780984303090This title is not returnable

THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO ENGLISH SPELLING RULES is the most complete and detailed guide to English spelling rules ever written. Most people consider English spelling to be an intimidating tangle but John Fulford easily and carefully leads the reader through the linguistic maze and...

Michelle Obama has quickly become one of the most influential and respected women in America. This book is a collection of her most personal and inspirational speeches, given over the course of a year and a half, on the Obama's historic journey to the...

You already have files from QUITE SPECIFIC MEDIA account. The rights to this tiutle have reverted to me from them. I want to continue printing on demand using the existing files and changing only the imprint and ISBN.Author: Louis E. ColaianniPublisher: Joy PressPublished: 12/10/2000Pages:...

Recommended by writing instructors and award-winning authors. This volume emphasizes an aspect of children's picture books that has not yet been thoroughly investigated: structure. Both concept books and picture storybooks employ very distinctive structures that, once mastered, can be applied to any picture book...

It's the best time on Earth to be a writer.More writers are making money today than at any other time in history. For centuries few have been able to support themselves from the quill or the keyboard alone.Not anymore. With the rise of ebooks...

The articles collected in this volume represent some of the most unusual from Gu non's pen. They could be described as fragments of an unknown history, a history reaching back through prehistory to protohistory, for they begin with the Primordial Tradition contemporaneous with the...

This work was the authors' response to a need they saw for methodology in field research. They give techniques for gathering and processing data from unwritten languages, and include questionnaires for many aspects of both language and culture. Examples of the latter are time,...

International students in North American seminaries struggling with academic work in English ... Seminary students around the world finding resource materials that are still only available in English ... Regional seminaries in Asia, Africa, and Europe educating people from many language backgrounds by offering...

Get the practical guidance you seek for pronouncing commonly mispronounced words, including American proper, historical and literary names. This unique guide to the pronunciation of American English is based on conversational usage and features International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions for over 40,000 entries for...

In Your Life As Story, autobiography expert Tristine Rainer explains how we can all find the important messages in our lives. Like Mary Karr or Frank McCourt, we can shape those stories into dramatic narratives that are compelling to others. Blending literary scholarship with...

A reissue of a classic work published in 1934 on writing and the creative process, Becoming a Writer recaptures the excitement of Dorothea Brande's creative writing classroom of the 1920s. Decades before brain research discovered the role of the right and left brain in...

A dictionary of Welsh phrases and idioms in everyday use, compiled by a learner for learners' needs.Author: Leonard HaylesPublisher: Y LolfaPublished: 12/31/1997Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.50dISBN: 9780862433642This title is only available via back order

Over 65 games, including anagrams, hidden words, crossword puzzles, and scrambled sentences help users learn basic vocabulary skills. Includes answer key.Author: Linda Schinke-LlanoPublisher: McGraw-Hill CompaniesPublished: 02/09/1992Pages: 80Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.31lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.02w x 0.26dISBN: 9780844274157About the AuthorSchinke-Llano, Linda: - McGraw-Hill authors represent the...

Library makerspaces continue to thrive, drawing new patrons in and engaging them as never before. This hands-on sourcebook technology expert Kroski includes everything libraries need to know about the major topics, tools, and technologies relevant to makerspaces today. Packed with cutting edge instruction and...

The lessons of ALA's Libraries Ready to Code initiative are conclusive: your library can make a difference in developing computational thinking in children, teens, and even adults. And you don't even need to be a techie to make it happen; in fact, many activities...

Planning and managing a self-contained digitization project is one thing, but how do you transition to a digital library program? Or better yet, how do you start a program from scratch? In this book Purcell, a well-respected expert in both archives and digital libraries,...

Author: Michelle Kowalsky, John WoodruffPublisher: ALA EditionsPublished: 10/31/2016Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.40dISBN: 9780838914854Review Citation(s): Library Journal 04/15/2017 pg. 99Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2017This title is only available via back order

Story Time Effective Practice (STEP), developed by the authors, is an approach that articulates the link between child development theory and storytimes. This important resource shows how presenters can use STEP to craft a storytime that is effective for mixed-age groups and adheres to...