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Duolingo
Learn a language using your smartphone or computer! Duolingo is free, fun, and easy to use.
Author
Series
Publisher
New World Library
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
Born in Prague when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire and recognized today as a master of verse, poet Rainer Maria Rilke was considerably less well known in 1902 when he received a heartfelt letter from an aspiring poet. A 19-year-old student sent Rilke some of his verses, seeking an opinion of their worth. Rilke declined to offer a critique, instead encouraging the student to rely upon his own inner judgment: "Nobody can advise and help...
Author
Series
Sounds like reading volume 3
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Audisee® eBooks with Audio combine professional narration and text highlighting to engage reluctant readers! Come along with me and learn all about reading! Brian P. Cleary's wacky sentences and Jason Miskimins's colorful art will make phonics fun! Find activities, games, and more at www. brianpcleary. com.
Author
Series
Sounds like reading volume 2
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Young readers can learn how to read words with consonant blends and short vowel sounds through rhymes, repetition, illustrations, and phonics.
24) Alice Adams
Author
Publisher
Grosset and Dunlap
Pub. Date
[1921]
Language
English
Description
First published in 1921, "Alice Adams" is a novel by American dramatist and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Newton Booth Tarkington (1869–1946). Among only three other novelists to have won the Pulitzer Prize more than once, Tarkington was one of the greatest authors of the 1910s and 1920s who helped usher in Indiana's Golden Age of literature. One of his most famous and successful novels, "Alice Adams" follows the eponymous character and her struggle...
Author
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The renowned philosopher and political theorist presents a summation of his influential work in this series of Columbia University lectures.
A pioneer in the fields of modern linguistics and cognitive science, Noam Chomsky is also one of the most avidly read political theorist of our time. In this series of lectures, Chomsky presents more than half a century of philosophical reflection on all three of these areas.
In precise yet accessible language,...
Author
Series
Sounds like reading volume 6
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Uses wacky sentences and colorful art to teach long vowel sounds and consonant digraphs.
Author
Publisher
Michael O'Mara
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
All the signs show that the worthy art of letter writing is in decline. One third of 16-year-olds have never written a letter, and in the next ten years it is predicted that first-class mail will drop by 37%. Emails and texts have overtaken the humble pen and paper as the most popular method of communication. In Kind Regards, Liz Williams explores the popular history of letter writing and how it has shaped the world today - from the early Greek...
Author
Series
Sounds like reading volume 7
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
Uses rhyme, repetition, illustration, and phonics to introduce inflectional ending.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
How can we teach today's students to write with clarity, passion, and purpose? How can we move all students, even those who struggle or are reluctant, forward in their skills as writers? In Improving Adolescent Writers, Kelly Gallagher invites you into his classroom for an in-depth look at ways to successfully answer these questions, and more. Through a variety of methods, modeling, mid-process assessment, small-group conferring, grammar and editing...
Author
Publisher
The Experiment, LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Good writers follow the rules. Great writers know the rules -- and follow their instincts! Finding the right words, in the right order, matters -- whether you're a student embarking on an essay, a job applicant drafting your cover letter, an employee composing an email ... even a (hopeful) lover writing a text. Do it wrong and you just might get an F, miss the interview, lose a client, or spoil your chance at a second date. Do it right, and the world...
Author
Publisher
Logion Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This is a guide for mastering the current basic signs used to communicate with deaf people in either the word order of the English language or in the American Sign Language pattern. It provides the basic vocabulary needed for persons entering interpreter training programs. Over 1500 signs have been illustrated and are grouped by chapter into their natural categories. Includes line drawings and step-by-step descriptions of positions and movements,...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
What makes a story a story? What is style? What's the connection between realism and real life? These are some of the questions James Wood answers in How Fiction Works, the first book-length essay by the preeminent critic of his generation. Ranging widely-from Homer to David Foster Wallace, from What Maisie Knew to Make Way for Ducklings-Wood takes the reader through the basic elements of the art, step-by-step.
The result is nothing less than a philosophy...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"An essential book for all Grace Paley fans. Grace Paley is best known for her inimitable short stories, but she was also an enormously talented essayist and poet. A Grace Paley Reader collects the best of Paley's writing, showcasing her breadth of work and her extraordinary insight and empathy. With an introduction by George Saunders and an afterword by the writer's daughter, Nora Paley, A Grace Paley Reader is sure to become an instant classic."--...
37) Conjunctions
Author
Publisher
Cherry Lake Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Describes the role conjunctions play in sentences by following the story of Nancy, a girl who brings her family to see her work on display at an art show.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books in Motion
Language
English
Description
When the woman he loves is in danger, Carthoris follows the footsteps of his heroic parents, John Carter and Dejah, to save her. Carthoris is in love with Thuvia, the princess of Ptarth. Constantly consumed by the thought of her, Carthoris is desperate to proclaim his love. However, Thuvia will not entertain his feelings, as she is betrothed to someone else, and Barsoomian engagements can only be broken through death. Even though his feelings are...
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A linguistically informed look at how our digital world is transforming the English language. Language is humanity's most spectacular open-source project, and the internet is making our language change faster and in more interesting ways than ever before. Internet conversations are structured by the shape of our apps and platforms, from the grammar of status updates to the protocols of comments and @replies. Linguistically inventive online communities...
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