Real Skills with Readings

Real Skills with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-01-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9781457602009

Real Skills with Readings offers practical, accessible coverage of basic sentence skills and step-by-step guidance on writing paragraphs. Like the other books in the Anker series, Real Skills motivates students with its message that writing is an essential and achievable skill. Real Skills connects engaging grammar and writing instruction with an emphasis on critical thinking and reading skills — the keys to successful writing. Real-world examples, assignments, and readings show students the relevance of writing to all aspects of their lives. Real Skills with Readings is now integrated with LearningCurve — online, adaptive quizzing activities that reinforce what students learn in the book.

Reading the OED

Reading the OED
Author: Ammon Shea
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2008
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780399533983

An obsessive word lover provides an account of the year he spent reading the Oxford English Dictionary cover to cover, offering a selection of obscure and offbeat vocabulary gems he discovered along the way.

Dictionaries

Dictionaries
Author: Jonathan Wright
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 184
Release: 1998-11-12
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9780194372190

Makes learners aware of the enormous amount of information in most ELT dictionaries. Practises reading skills. Provides memory training. Includes a section on bilingual dictionaries. Encourages learners to have fun with dictionaries.

AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary

AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary
Author: Andrea Rangel
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-08-10
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 1632505533

Break the rules. Knit outside the lines! AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary takes an unexpected look at stranded colorwork with 200 new motifs. These unique colorwork charts are perfect for the creative knitter looking to break away from the ordinary. Derived from graphic design elements, these fresh, fun motifs include everything from geometric mountains, waves, and spirals to modern bikes, skulls, and sheep. Dive into color knitting with confidence with a section on reading charts, working floats, and choosing colors. Learn how stranded colorwork can be used in design with five accompanying projects including mitts, cowls, and sweaters. AlterKnit Stitch Dictionary is the perfect gift for knitters looking for fun pattern ideas or new stitches. Get inspired to break the rules and use your imagination to modify, deconstruct, and combine motifs to create your own unique designs.

The Right Word

The Right Word
Author: Jen Bryant
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2014-09-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1467447641

2015 Caldecott Honor Book 2015 Sibert Medal Winner For shy young Peter Mark Roget, books were the best companions -- and it wasn’t long before Peter began writing his own book. But he didn’t write stories; he wrote lists. Peter took his love for words and turned it to organizing ideas and finding exactly the right word to express just what he thought. His lists grew and grew, eventually turning into one of the most important reference books of all time. Readers of all ages will marvel at Roget’s life, depicted through lyrical text and brilliantly detailed illustrations. This elegant book celebrates the joy of learning and the power of words.

Real Essays with Readings

Real Essays with Readings
Author: Susan Anker
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 905
Release: 2011-12-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0312648081

Real Essays delivers the powerful message that good writing, thinking, and reading skills are both essential and achievable. From the inspiring stories told by former students in Profiles of Success to the practical strategies for community involvement in the new Community Connections, Real Essays helps students to connect the writing class with their real lives and with the expectations of the larger world. So that students don’t get overwhelmed, the book focuses first on the most important things in each area, such as the Four Most Serious Errors in grammar; the Four Basics of each rhetorical strategy; and the academic skills of summary, analysis, and synthesis. Read the preface.

Words I Use When I Write

Words I Use When I Write
Author: Alana Trisler
Publisher: Modern Learning Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1989-12
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780935493337

Lists almost 500 high-interest, high-frequency words in large, hand-printed manuscript and provides space to add new words to help students improve their spelling, alphabetizing, reading, and writing. A 10-page back section includes pages for color words, number words, days of the week, months of the year, contractions, classmates and friends, family members, and pets. For grades 1-2.

Real-Life Reading Activities for Grades 6-12

Real-Life Reading Activities for Grades 6-12
Author: James F. Silver
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2001-10-15
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780130444608

For secondary reading specialists and English teachers, this practical resource provides over 200 ready-to-reproduce lessons and exercises to teach and reinforce basic reading skills with students of all abilities. Each lesson includes an Instructor's Page with background information and teaching suggestions followed by one or more Student Skill sheets designed for sequential development of skills that build to higher levels of reading proficiency within each section. Organized into 7 sections: Reading for Deeper Meanings, Reading and Vocabulary, Reading Diagrams: Charts, Tables & Graphs, Reading Pictures: Cartoons & Maps, Reading & Study Skills, Reading & Its Writing Connection, and Reading & Research. These lessons and activities are completely flexible and can be used with individual students or an entire class to meet particular corrective or remedial reading skill needs.

The BS Dictionary

The BS Dictionary
Author: Bob Wiltfong
Publisher: Association for Talent Development
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2020-04-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1950496171

Speak for Yourself Do you yearn for a book to disambiguate words and phrases commonly used in business settings, your workplace, and in life in general? Do you wish the kimono would open on idioms and clichés that stretch the bandwidth of understanding and make you wonder if your career is scalable? What are you really saying when you go against the grain and are aboveboard? What do you hear when your colleague wants face time or to move the needle? The BS Dictionary: Uncovering the Origins and True Meanings of Business Speak provides the real-world definitions to about 300 of the world's most commonly-used business terms and gives you the origin story (who coined the term? when did it start to be used figuratively in the business world?) for each one. Get the language clarity you need and have fun learning the full etymology of favorite phrases. Read humorous commentary about how phrases might be misused or misunderstood. If you are interested in language, business speak, writing, and trivia knowledge, this book is for you! Get The BS Dictionary and impress your friends with your newfound wealth of phrases and their history.