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.

The American Heritage Student Dictionary

The American Heritage Student Dictionary
Author: Editors of Editors of the American Heritage Di
Publisher: Collins Reference
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-07-17
Genre: English language
ISBN: 9781328787347

A brand-new, fully revised edition of this outstanding resource for students in grades 6-10 includes hundreds of new words, abundant example sentences, lively feature notes and an all-new full-color art program.

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.

Women and Dictionary-Making

Women and Dictionary-Making
Author: Lindsay Rose Russell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 2018-04-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1316953548

Dictionaries are a powerful genre, perceived as authoritative and objective records of the language, impervious to personal bias. But who makes dictionaries shapes both how they are constructed and how they are used. Tracing the craft of dictionary making from the fifteenth century to the present day, this book explores the vital but little-known significance of women and gender in the creation of English language dictionaries. Women worked as dictionary patrons, collaborators, readers, compilers, and critics, while gender ideologies served, at turns, to prevent, secure, and veil women's involvements and innovations in dictionary making. Combining historical, rhetorical, and feminist methods, this is a monumental recovery of six centuries of women's participation in dictionary making and a robust investigation of how the social life of the genre is influenced by the social expectations of gender.

Reference Skills for the School Librarian

Reference Skills for the School Librarian
Author: Ann Marlow Riedling Ph.D.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2019-10-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440867100

Designed for courses that prepare LIS students for school librarianship, this title teaches basic reference processes, sources, services, and skills and provides authentic school library reference scenarios and exercises. This fourth edition of Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips acknowledges the vital importance of reference skills in school libraries. It focuses on new reference skills for school librarians and includes more online materials such as Webliographies and a glossary. Teaching reference skills and providing reference services to students and staff in schools are extremely important tasks and are required of librarians on a regular basis. Aimed at pre-service and in-service school librarians, this book covers all types of reference materials including almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other standard information sources, giving extra emphasis to the online sources to which students increasingly turn. This edition addresses more online reference resources than previous editions and offers practical suggestions for use in K–12 student instruction.

Gay Rights

Gay Rights
Author: Tricia Andryszewski
Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2000-01-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780761315681

Traces the history of the gay rights movement in America, from the Stonewall riots to the legal and societal status of gay rights at the turn of the century.

Let's Read

Let's Read
Author: Leonard Bloomfield
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Total Pages: 486
Release: 1961
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780814311158

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.

Picture Nouns by Dr. Fry

Picture Nouns by Dr. Fry
Author: Edward Fry
Publisher: Teacher Created Resources
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1999-05-01
Genre: Reading (Elementary)
ISBN: 9781576907634

Nigger

Nigger
Author: Randall Kennedy
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2008-12-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0307538915

Randall Kennedy takes on not just a word, but our laws, attitudes, and culture with bracing courage and intelligence—with a range of reference that extends from the Jim Crow south to Chris Rock routines and the O. J. Simpson trial. It’s “the nuclear bomb of racial epithets,” a word that whites have employed to wound and degrade African Americans for three centuries. Paradoxically, among many Black people it has become a term of affection and even empowerment. The word, of course, is nigger, and in this candid, lucidly argued book the distinguished legal scholar Randall Kennedy traces its origins, maps its multifarious connotations, and explores the controversies that rage around it. Should Blacks be able to use nigger in ways forbidden to others? Should the law treat it as a provocation that reduces the culpability of those who respond to it violently? Should it cost a person his job, or a book like Huckleberry Finn its place on library shelves?

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.