Using Talk to Support Writing

Title: Using Talk to Support Writing
Author(s): Ros Fisher, Susan Jones, Shirley Larkin, Debra Myhill
Publisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1849201447
Date: 2010
Pages: 202
Size: 1.65 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Using 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 or student wanting to take a serious, research-based look at writing. It offers a superb balance between discussion of how to teach writing and how to inquire into the way that writing is taught in the classroom or school. The book's structure positions the reader in a dynamic relationship to the text, which promotes an active understanding of the pedagogical decisions teachers make and of the links between theory, research inquiry and practice. This innovative approach to writing about research is both inspired and inspiring.

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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 It
Author(s): Barbara Goldstein, Jack Waugh, Karen Linsky
Publisher: Wadsworth
ISBN: 0547171242
Date: 2010, 3rd Edition
Pages: 291
Size: 1.4 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Brief 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 discussions of each chapter's content on the book specific website. [+/-]

Contents:

Preface
Part 1 Learning Grammar Basics
Chapter 1 Getting Started
Chapter 2 Sentence Patterns
Chapter 3 Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 4 Phrases
Chapter 5 Verbals and Verbal Phrases
Chapter 6 Word Order Variations
Chapter 7 Clauses
Chapter 8 Types of Sentences
Part 2 Putting the Basics to Work
Chapter 9 Sentence Fragments and Run-on Sentences
Chapter 10 Commas
Chapter 11 Other Punctuation and Capitalization
Chapter 12 Subject/Verb Agreement
Chapter 13 Pronoun Usage
Chapter 14 Modifier Usage
Chapter 15 Sentence Coherence: Logic, Parallelism, and Shifts
Chapter 16 Parts of Speech: Reference and Review
Selected Answers to Chapter Exercises
Index

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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 Hutchins
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
ISBN: 0761515496
Date: 2003
Pages: 151
Size: 1.55 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

It'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 knowledge
- Creating sensory images
- Asking questions
- Drawing inferences
- Determining what's important
- Synthesizing ideas
- Solving problems.

Easily understood, easily applied, and proven successful, this essential educational tool helps parents and teachers to turn reading into a fun and rewarding adventure.

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Love: A History

Title: Love: A History
Author(s): Simon May
Publisher: Yale University Press publications
ISBN: 9780300118308
Date: 2011
Pages: 313
Size: 1.06 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Love 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 explores the very different philosophers and writers, both skeptics and believers, who dared to think differently: from Aristotle's perfect friendship and Ovid's celebration of sex and "the chase," to Rousseau's personal authenticity, Nietzsche's affirmation, Freud's concepts of loss and mourning, and boredom in Proust. Against our belief that love is an all-powerful solution to finding meaning, security, and happiness in life, the author reveals with great clarity what love actually is: the intense desire for someone whom we believe can ground and affirm our very existence. The feeling that "makes the world go round" turns out to be a harbinger of home--and in that sense, of the sacred.

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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 up
Author(s): Carole Marsh
Publisher: Gallopade International
ISBN: N/A
Date: 2000-2011
Pages: 100 x 19
Size: 107.9 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British American English

Each 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 California
3. My First Pocket Guide to Colorado
4. My First Pocket Guide to Delaware
5. My First Pocket Guide to Louisiana [+/-]

6. My First Pocket Guide to Maryland
7. My First Pocket Guide to Minnesota
8. My First Pocket Guide to Missouri
9. My First Pocket Guide to Nebraska
10. My First Pocket Guide to New Hampshire
11. My First Pocket Guide to New York
12. My First Pocket Guide to Ohio
13. My First Pocket Guide to Oregon
14. My First Pocket Guide to Rhode Island
15. My First Pocket Guide to South Dakota
16. My First Pocket Guide to Texas
17. My First Pocket Guide to Vermont
18. My First Pocket Guide to Washington
19. My First Pocket Guide to Wisconsin - 100

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Mix & Match Meals

Title: Mix & Match Meals: Thousand of Menus for Quick Recipes and Crowd-Pleasing Meals
Author(s): Shannon Beatty, Rachel Bozek
Publisher: DK Readers
ISBN: 9780756682361
Date: 2011 
Pages: 194
Size: 10.70 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Making 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 low fat meals, light brunch inspired menus, or indulgent, luxurious dinners, Mix and Match Mealsis perfect for cooks who are visual and prefer to plan a menu that is both aesthetic and appetizing.

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America's Hidden History

Title: America's Hidden History
Author(s): Kenneth C. Davis
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN: 9780061648007
Date: 2008
Pages: 289
Size: 1.38 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Spanning 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.

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The Birth of America from before Columbus to the Revolution

Title: The Birth of America from before Columbus to the Revolution
Author(s): William R. Polk
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
ISBN: 0060750901
Date: 2006
Pages: 418
Size: 2.62 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

In 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 spirit of independence were indeed the real revolution. That is the compelling story at the root of The Birth of America.

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

Title: Family Vacation
Level: Pre-Level 1
Author(s): Fiona Lock
Publisher: DK READERS
ISBN: 9780756640934
Date: 2008
Pages: 36
Size: 3.01 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

Photographs 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.

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Growing Up with Literature, 6 Edition

Title: Growing Up with Literature
Author(s): Walter E. Sawyer, EdD
Publisher: Wadsworth
ISBN: 1111342652
Date: 2012, 6 Edition
Pages: 400
Size: 5.35 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: American English

GROWING 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 fiction and nonfiction. With 200 new children's literature titles, and up-to-date research on language development and brain development, this edition is on the cutting edge of knowledge in this area.

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

Title: The Proposal 2009 BRRip x264
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds and Mary Steenburgen
Release Date: 19 June 2009
Running Time: 1:47:47
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x544 23.98fps
Audio: AAC 48000Hz 6ch 229kbps
Size: 1.44 Gb
Format: .mp4 + .srt
Language: American English
Credit: 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 plans to fly home that weekend for his grandma's 90th, so Margaret goes with him - to Sitka, Alaska - where mom, dad, and grams await. Family dynamics take over: tensions between dad and Andrew, an ex-girlfriend, Andrew's dislike of Margaret, and her past color the next few days, with the INS ready to charge Andrew with fraud. [+/-]

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

Title: The Time Traveler's Wife 2009 BDRip H264 AAC-SecretMyth
Genres: Drama | Fantasy | Mystery | Romance
Starring: Eric Bana, Rachel McAdams, Ron Livingston
Release Date: 14 August 2009
Running Time: 01:47:26
Video: MPEG4 Video (H264) 1280x544 23.98fps
Audio: AAC 48000Hz 6ch 264kbps
Size: 1.67 Gb
Format: .mp4 + .srt
Language: American English
Credit: 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 time travelling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. [+/-]

General
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File size : 1.68 GiB
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English Online Pack (18 eBooks)

Title: English Online Pack (18 eBooks)
Level: Intermediate
Author(s): CET
Publisher: Center for Educational Technology
ISBN: N/A
Date: 2003-2005
Pages: 52 each
Size: 342 Mb
Format: PDF
Quality: High
Language: British English

English Online Pack includes:
1. English Online: In The News, Proficiency 1
2. English Online: Making Your Mark, Proficiency 1
3. English Online: The Silver Screen, Proficiency 1
4. English Online: World Traveler, Proficiency 1
5. English Online: Circles of Contact, Proficiency 2
6. English Online: Earth Matters, Proficiency 2 [+/-]

7. English Online: Mysteries of the Mind, Proficiency 2
8. English Online: Soul of a City, Proficiency 2
9. English Online: Animal Collage, Intermediate 1
10. English Online: Personal Portfolio, Intermediate 1
11. English Online: Fashion and Fads, Intermediate 2
12. English Online: Secrets of the Sea, Intermediate 2
13. English Online: Sports Scene, Intermediate 2
14. English Online: Looking to Space, Intermediate 3
15. English Online: Music Mania, Intermediate 3
16. English Online: Name of the Game, Intermediate 3
17. English Online: The Funny Side, Intermediate 3
18. English Online: Natural Disasters

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