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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"When President Obama signed the affordable health care act in 2009, the Vice President was overheard to utter an enthusiastic "This is a big f****** deal!" A town in Massachusetts levies $20 fines on swearing in public. Nothing is as paradoxical as our attitude toward swearing and "bad language": how can we judge profanity so harshly in principle, yet use it so frequently in practice? Though profanity is more acceptable today than ever, it is still...
Author
Publisher
Blue Apple Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"What language lesson doesn't seem like a lesson? The fun guessing game inside this book! Clever word groupings list three things that are alike and one that it is different. For example, there are living rooms, bedrooms, and bathrooms, but a mushroom is not a room!Picture clues will help kids figure out which thing is different and begin to grasp fine-tuned nuances of word parts, roots, and meanings. In addition, the text's guessing-game approach...
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
This second in a series of programs covers weeks 10 through 18 of kindergarten, where kids build upon the first 25 sight words, already introduced, with 25 more sight words, such as "went," "had," "did," et cetera Join young host Julianna, who explains what sight words are, and enthusiastically presents each word, sounds it out slowly and uses it in a simple sentence with on-screen graphics and illustrations that reinforce the use of the particular...
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Students need strong reading comprehension skills to succeed in middle school, high school, and beyond. The 31 lessons in this e-book help students understand what they read and prepare them for writing assignments. There are pre- and post-tests, as well as a list of suggested books and magazines.
Publisher
LearningExpress
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"This eBook will help you to stop misspelling words, and to boost your confidence with the words you write with. Master those words that you find in competitive exams--this eBook is your guide to more confident spelling and a more powerful vocabulary." --
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Titanic. Just the name evokes tales of the doomed ship that have captivated people of all ages for more than 100 years.
Early readers will enjoy this exciting account of the world's most famous disaster-at-sea and the discovery of it's remains many years later.
Step 4 books are perfect for independent readers who are confident with simple sentences and are just starting to tackle paragraphs.
Early readers will enjoy this exciting account of the world's most famous disaster-at-sea and the discovery of it's remains many years later.
Step 4 books are perfect for independent readers who are confident with simple sentences and are just starting to tackle paragraphs.
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Formats
Description
Instant National Bestseller
Shortlisted for the 2023 Inc. Non-Obvious Book Award
"Witty, literary and very funny." —Minneapolis Star Tribune
Welcome to Sotheran's, one of the oldest bookshops in the world, with its weird and wonderful clientele, suspicious cupboards, unlabeled keys, poisoned books, and some things that aren't even books, presided over by one deeply eccentric apprentice.
Some
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Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The brand-new, 2016, high-definition program meets Common Core standards, as it teaches kindergarten students all about question words. Who, what, where, when, why, and how are presented with great, sample sentences to illustrate proper usage. On-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
71) Leading Others
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Model leadership behavior to emergent readers by showing how to share, how to listen, how to care, and how to give. Pairs with the fiction title Dev Makes a Card.
Author
Series
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public.
Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that
...Author
Publisher
G&D Media
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
"...A LEARNING EXPERIENCE THAT CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE FOREVER." -BRIAN TRACY The author of the best-selling 30 Days to a More Powerful Vocabulary, Dan Strutzel, now puts his focus on communicating successfully in the business world! Business is just like any sector or topic, with its own language, customs, codes, and terminologies. Different aspects of business can have their own distinctive terminology, which can also overlap. In 30...
74) Setting Goals
Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Guide young readers to try new things and learn new skills, habits that are important for success and happiness. Pairs with the fiction title Paco Tries.
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Common Core 1st Grade Reading is a set of high-quality, nationally-accepted, academic standards in reading. These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do before entering 2nd grade. This first in a series of programs covers weeks one through nine of first Grade, where kids learn 22 sight words, such as could, know, every, et cetera.
Publisher
LearningExpress, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This second complete practice test features instant scoring and covers all the areas tested on the official FTCE General Knowledge English Language Skills subtest: language structure, vocabulary, and the standard English conventions like tenses, cases, and parts of speech.
Author
Publisher
Heinemann
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Teaching is art-creation-and a curriculum map is only as good as the teacher who considers it, who questions it, and who revises it to meet the needs of each year's students." -Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle. Two teachers. Two classrooms. One school year. 180 Days represents the collaboration of two master teachers-Kelly Gallagher and Penny Kittle-over an entire school year: planning, teaching, and reflecting within their own and each other's classrooms...
Author
Language
English
Description
With dazzling wit and astonishing insight, Bill Brysonthe acclaimed author of The Lost Continentbrilliantly explores the remarkable history, eccentricities, resilience and sheer fun of the English language. From the first descent of the larynx into the throat (why you can talk but your dog can't), to the fine lost art of swearing, Bryson tells the fascinating, often uproarious story of an inadequate, second-rate tongue of peasants that developed into...
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A set of high-quality, nationally-accepted academic standards in reading. These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do before entering second grade. This second in a series of programs covers weeks ten through eighteen of first grade, where kids learn 22 sight words, such as "after," "may," "would," et cetera.
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