Using Talk to Support Writing

Title: Using Talk to Support WritingAuthor(s): Ros Fisher, Susan Jones, Shirley Larkin, Debra MyhillPublisher: SAGE PublicationsISBN: 1849201447Date: 2010Pages: 202Size: 1.65 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishUsing Talk to Support Writing presents a new and innovative approach to the teaching of early writing. The authors discuss both theoretical and practical issues around using talk in the classroom to support children as they learn to write. Set within the context of national concern for achievement in the development of writing ability, it addresses the gap in understanding early teaching and focuses on the exploration of talk and writing interface. [+/-]This book is essential reading for any teacher, literacy coordinator...

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Grammar to Go: How It Works and How to Use It, 3rd Edition

Title: Grammar to Go: How It Works and How to Use ItAuthor(s): Barbara Goldstein, Jack Waugh, Karen LinskyPublisher: WadsworthISBN: 0547171242Date: 2010, 3rd EditionPages: 291Size: 1.4 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishBrief and basic in its coverage, GRAMMAR TO GO offers students a unique focus on sentence diagramming that helps them visualize and understand how words connect. Perfect as a primary text or as a supplement for courses with an emphasis on learning basic grammar and punctuation skills, this edition incorporates a wide range of new material to help students hone their skills--including additional traditional practice sets, more integrated assignments, increased opportunities for writing practice, and expanded...

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7 Keys to Comprehension: Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!

Title: 7 Keys to Comprehension: Help Your Kids Read It and Get It!Author(s): Susan Zimmermann and Chryse HutchinsPublisher: Three Rivers PressISBN: 0761515496Date: 2003Pages: 151Size: 1.55 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishIt's simple: If children don't understand what they read, they will never embrace reading. And that limits what they can learn while in school. This fact frightens parents, worries teachers, and ultimately hurts children.7 Keys to Comprehension is the result of cutting-edge research. It gives parents and teachers--those who aren't already using this valuable program--practical, thoughtful advice about the seven simple thinking strategies that proficient readers use: [+/-]- Connecting reading to their background...

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Love: A History

Title: Love: A HistoryAuthor(s): Simon MayPublisher: Yale University Press publicationsISBN: 9780300118308Date: 2011Pages: 313Size: 1.06 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishLove unconditional, selfless, unchanging, sincere, and totally acceptingis worshipped today as the West's only universal religion. To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos. In this pathbreaking and superbly written book, the author, philosopher, does just that, dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love and showing how they are the product of a long and powerful cultural heritage.Tracing over 2,500 years of human thought and history, the author shows how our ideal of love developed from its Hebraic and Greek origins. [+/-]Brilliantly, the author...

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My First Pocket Guide to... (19 US States)

Title: My First Pocket Guide to... (19 US States)Level: Grade 3 and upAuthor(s): Carole MarshPublisher: Gallopade InternationalISBN: N/ADate: 2000-2011Pages: 100 x 19Size: 107.9 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: British American EnglishEach Pocket Guide comes with complete exercises about your state. This easy-to-use reference guide is divided into seven color-coded sections including state basic facts, geography, history, people, places, nature and miscellaneous information. This reference guide is perfect for students in grades 3 and up.List of the books:1. My First Pocket Guide to Arizona 2. My First Pocket Guide to California3. My First Pocket Guide to Colorado4. My First Pocket Guide to Delaware5. My First Pocket Guide to Louisiana [+/-]6....

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Mix & Match Meals

Title: Mix & Match Meals: Thousand of Menus for Quick Recipes and Crowd-Pleasing MealsAuthor(s): Shannon Beatty, Rachel BozekPublisher: DK ReadersISBN: 9780756682361Date: 2011 Pages: 194Size: 10.70 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishMaking planning and cooking a three course meal a breeze, Mix and Match Mealsis an easy to use cookbook specially designed in a split page format so that any combination of foods can be viewed all together on one page. Divided into three sections Starters, Main Courses, and Desserts Mix and Match Mealsallows readers to flip through pages, creating their own customized menu one course at a time, with 270 recipes that provide hundreds of thousands of mouthwatering combinations. From healthy...

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America's Hidden History

Title: America's Hidden HistoryAuthor(s): Kenneth C. DavisPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncISBN: 9780061648007Date: 2008Pages: 289Size: 1.38 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishSpanning a period from the Spanish arrival in America to George Washington's inauguration in 1789, America's Hidden History is an iconoclastic look at America's past, connecting some of the dots between history and today's headlines, and proving why Davis is truly America's teacher.Find out:- Which Pilgrims arrived in Florida fifty years before the Mayflower sailed.- What Supreme Court Justice went to prison.- What traitor is honored with a statue for his bravery.- Which fighting woman in colonial New England scalped her Indian captors.Download...

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The Birth of America from before Columbus to the Revolution

Title: The Birth of America from before Columbus to the RevolutionAuthor(s): William R. PolkPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers IncISBN: 0060750901Date: 2006Pages: 418Size: 2.62 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishIn this provocative history of colonial America, William R. Polk explores the key events and individuals that defined this critical epoch by offering vivid descriptions of the societies the Europeans came from and what they believed they were going to, while introducing the native peoples encountered in the New World and the black Africans who were brought across the Atlantic. As John Adams would point out to Thomas Jefferson, the long years that witnessed the formation of our national character and the growth of our...

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Family Vacation (Pre-Level 1 - Learning to Read)

Title: Family VacationLevel: Pre-Level 1Author(s): Fiona LockPublisher: DK READERSISBN: 9780756640934Date: 2008Pages: 36Size: 3.01 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishPhotographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age-appropriate stories in these Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge. Family Vacation lets the very youngest readers join a family on an exciting vacation, filled with sunny beaches and fun.Download link:http://www.fileserve.com/file/frhW...

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Growing Up with Literature, 6 Edition

Title: Growing Up with LiteratureAuthor(s): Walter E. Sawyer, EdDPublisher: WadsworthISBN: 1111342652Date: 2012, 6 EditionPages: 400Size: 5.35 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: American EnglishGROWING UP WITH LITERATURE, Sixth Edition, provides a practical and understandable presentation of how to use children's literature/picture books to enhance literacy and language development in children ages birth to eight years. You will learn effective strategies for selecting and evaluating books, planning reading experiences, sharing stories with children, and using stories to help children deal with stress and problems (bibliotherapy). All genres of literature are addressed, including ABC/Counting books, folk and fairy tales, fables, and traditional/contemporary...

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The Proposal [2009] (HD BRRip+English Subtitle)

Title: The Proposal 2009 BRRip x264Genres: Comedy | Drama | RomanceStarring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds and Mary SteenburgenRelease Date: 19 June 2009Running Time: 1:47:47Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x544 23.98fpsAudio: AAC 48000Hz 6ch 229kbpsSize: 1.44 GbFormat: .mp4 + .srtLanguage: American EnglishCredit: www.imdb.com/title/tt1041829/***Learn English by watching an English movie!*** For three years, Andrew Paxton has slaved as the assistant to Margaret Tate, hard-driving editor at a New York publisher. When Margaret, a Canadian, faces deportation for an expired visa, she hatches a scheme to marry Andrew - he agrees if she'll promise a promotion. A skeptical INS agent vows to test the couple about each other the next Monday. Andrew had...

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The Time Traveler's Wife [2009] (HD BRRip+English Subtitle)

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife 2009 BDRip H264 AAC-SecretMythGenres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | RomanceStarring: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron LivingstonRelease Date: 14 August 2009Running Time: 01:47:26Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x544 23.98fpsAudio: AAC 48000Hz 6ch 264kbpsSize: 1.67 GbFormat: .mp4 + .srtLanguage: American EnglishCredit: www.imdb.com/title/tt0452694/***Learn English by watching an English movie!*** When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveller, but she she knows much more than this about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have met before. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavoidable absences...

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English Online Pack (18 eBooks)

Title: English Online Pack (18 eBooks)Level: IntermediateAuthor(s): CETPublisher: Center for Educational TechnologyISBN: N/ADate: 2003-2005Pages: 52 eachSize: 342 MbFormat: PDFQuality: HighLanguage: British EnglishEnglish Online Pack includes:1. English Online: In The News, Proficiency 1 2. English Online: Making Your Mark, Proficiency 13. English Online: The Silver Screen, Proficiency 14. English Online: World Traveler, Proficiency 15. English Online: Circles of Contact, Proficiency 26. English Online: Earth Matters, Proficiency 2 [+/-] 7. English Online: Mysteries of the Mind, Proficiency 28. English Online: Soul of a City, Proficiency 29. English Online: Animal Collage, Intermediate 110. English Online: Personal Portfolio, Intermediate 111....

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