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"The first novel-writing guide from the best-selling Save the Cat! story-structure series, which reveals the 15 essential plot points needed to make any novel a success. Novelist Jessica Brody presents a comprehensive story-structure guide for novelists that applies the famed Save the Cat! screenwriting methodology to the world of novel writing. Revealing the 15 "beats" (plot points) that comprise a successful story--from the opening image to the...

"Boosting your word power will improve your overall speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. That's why you need Think You Know Your Vocabulary?--the ultimate guide to building and using the right words effectively." --

"Middle school students can use the lessons in this eBook to help improve their vocabulary for class, homework, and important tests--in just 15 minutes a day!" --

"Express Review Guides: Vocabulary will give you the skills you need to expand your vocabulary. This guide lays out the building blocks of meaning for many common words, making it easier to recognize similar words and decipher their meaning." --

"Reading and writing are one of the educational issues that generates the most controversy and questions among educators and families. This book will show a new approach and a new conception of literacy skills, spelling, and the prevention of both. Simple, practical, and adaptable to the evolutionary rhythms of our future readers"-- "La lectoescritura es una de las cuestiones educativas que generan más controversia y preguntas entre los educadores...

"Spanning more than three centuries, Take My Word for It is a fascinating, one-of-a-kind window into the surprisingly short history of idioms in English. Widely known for his studies of word origins, Anatoly Liberman explains more than one thousand idioms, both popular and obscure, occurring in both American and British standard English and including many regional expressions"-- "Three centuries of English idioms—their unusual origins and unexpected...

"Practical Vocabulary will help you improve your vocabulary by arming you with words that are often used, but less often understood. It also shows you the secrets of breaking down new words to figure out what they mean without a dictionary." --

Shows parents how to encourage literacy in their preschool children and why it is important, providing ideas for activities that promote reading, writing, and communication within the home and throughout the day.

"In ten chapters, you will learn the fundamentals that you need to improve your vocabulary. This eBook covers all of the topics you need to know: context clues, word roots, prefixes, suffixes, homophones, confusing words, modifiers, verbs, and more." --