Thorndike Barnhart Intermediate Dictionary

Thorndike Barnhart Intermediate Dictionary
Author: Edward Lee Thorndike
Publisher: Scott Foresman
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996-11
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780673123756

An intermediate dictionary giving pronunciation, examples of usage, and part of speech for each definition of a word. Includes some etymologies and exercises and lessons in the use of the dictionary.

Thorndike Barnhart Advanced Dictionary

Thorndike Barnhart Advanced Dictionary
Author: Edward Lee Thorndike
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2002-08-12
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780673124487

An advanced dictionary with more than 100,000 word entries, including pronunciation guides, parts of speech, definitions, and some word histories, plus a section on use of the dictionary.

Thorndike Barnhart Student Dictionary

Thorndike Barnhart Student Dictionary
Author: Edward Lee Thorndike
Publisher: Good Year Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1998-06
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780673124470

Included are Word Families and Word Sources, literary terms highlighted with examples, a 14-page reference section and style manual to writers, plus 100,000 entries, including such contemporary words as "camcorder" and "VCR", 120,000 definitions, 35,000 illustrative examples, 1,800 etymologies, 900 Usage Notes and Synonym Studies, and 1,500 photos and illustrations.

Scott, Foresman Advanced Dictionary

Scott, Foresman Advanced Dictionary
Author: Edward Lee Thorndike
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1215
Release: 1979
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9780673123275

An advanced dictionary giving pronunciation, part of speech, definition, and some etymologies. Includes a section on use of the dictionary.

A Season of Gifts

A Season of Gifts
Author: Richard Peck
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2010-10-14
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0142417297

One of the most adored characters in children's literature is the eccentric, forceful, bighearted Grandma Dowdel, star of the Newbery Award-winning A Year Down Yonder and Newbery Honor-winning A Long Way from Chicago. And it turns out that her story isn't over. It's now 1958, and a new family has moved in next door to Mrs. Dowdel: a minister and his wife and kids. Soon Mrs. Dowdel will work her particular brand of charm on all of them, and they will quickly discover that the last house in town might also be the most vital.

Let's Read

Let's Read
Author: Cynthia A. Barnhart
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2010
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780814334553

Originally published in 1961, Let's Read is a simple and systematic way to teach basic reading. Developed by noted linguist Leonard Bloomfield, the book is based on the alphabetic spelling patterns of English. Bloomfield offered an antidote to the idea that English is a difficult language to learn to read by teaching the learner to decode the phonemic sound-letter correlations of the language in a sequential, logical progression of lessons based on its spelling patterns. The learner is first introduced to the most consistent (alphabetic) vocabulary and then to increasingly less alphabetic and less frequent spelling patterns within a vocabulary of about 5,000 words. The second edition of Let's Read brings Bloomfield's innovative program into the twenty-first century without changing the sequence of exercises but with revised text and an attractive new design and layout.

The World Book Encyclopedia

The World Book Encyclopedia
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 554
Release: 2002
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.

The Art of Readable Writing

The Art of Readable Writing
Author: Rudolf Flesch
Publisher: Wiley
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994-01-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780020464709

The Art of Readable Writing is an indispensable guide to writing fluently. Noted language maven Dr. Rudolf Flesch moves beyond his examination of and advice on grammar and usage in The Art of Plain Talk to the more general principles of style in contemporary writing. Drawing upon a wealth of material from sources as varied as Aristotle and Life magazine, Dr. Flesch shows us how we can write more simply and effectively. His famous Readability Formula, devised specially for this book, explains how to analyze writing for its clarity and interest. Entertaining and stimulating and crammed with commonsensical advice, The Art of Readable Writing is, above all, immensely readable.