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Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction

by: Isabel L. Beck PhD, PhD Margaret G. McKeown Phd, PhD Linda Kucan PhD, Isabel L. Beck, Margaret G. McKeown, Linda Kucan

"Vocabulary is the bedrock supporting academic language proficiency. Without any doubt, speech-language pathologists recognize the critical importance of vocabulary learning for children and adolescents struggling with language and literacy learning. The challenge is how we can better support genuine vocabulary learning so that struggling students will be better positioned to meet the new reading and writing standards. This book offers speech-language pathologists a strong conceptual framework and evidence-based strategies for achieving the goal of functional vocabulary learning. The rich and detailed strategies are presented in a highly readable way. This accessibility allows the creative speech-language clinician to find many ideas that can easily be adapted into meaningful strategies for boosting the authentic word knowledge that most students with language learning disabilities urgently need for attaining academic language proficiency."--Elaine R. Silliman, PhD, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of South Florida

"This little book is a gem. It shows how teachers can teach word meanings so powerfully that students of all ages will be able to grasp an author's meaning or communicate their own more effectively. The book offers a well-organized and first-rate plan for teaching vocabulary, presented by a team of researchers with a genuine grasp of the practical."--Timothy Shanahan, PhD, Center for Literacy, University of Illinois at Chicago

"This book succinctly addresses the challenges of teaching and developing vocabulary, providing research-based, clearly spelled-out strategies and many, many rich examples. It gives teachers the tools they need to effectively increase students' vocabularies. Reflecting the authors' own expertise with words, the book is written clearly enough for undergraduates, yet has a level of depth that will lend new insights to even the most advanced student of language and literacy. This book should be required reading in teacher and reading specialist preparation programs and should be used in in-service programs with reading, language arts, and English teachers as well as with content area teachers. If the strategies and suggestions offered in this book were widely and intensely implemented, we would see significant increases in students' verbal abilities and reading comprehension scores."--John J. Pikulski, PhD, School of Education, University of Delaware

"Bringing Words to Life lives up to its title. It made me want to gather a group of kids immediately, so I could start putting these sensible, practical, novel, and intriguing ideas about building vocabulary into practice. Beck, McKeown, and Kucan show how much fun learning words and teaching words can be. Every early childhood and elementary teacher should have this book on their bedside table for inspirational reading."--Catherine E. Snow, PhD, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

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Common Errors in English Usage

by: Paul Brians

I don't think I'm the worst user of the English language but I do make my share of errors. This book is clear, easy to read and well organized. It has helped me many times and will continue to do so in the future. Of course, it is also rewarding to look up a word or grammatical usage and find that you were right! This book should be on the desk of everyone who cares about how they come across to others when writing and should be required reading for all Junior and Senior High School students. - David Wilson (Massachusetts)

Common Errors In English Usage puts the wisdom of author and English professor Paul Brians' web site, "Common Errors in English," into print. Offering essential information concerning commonly misused words and phrases, from a scholar whose web site has been endorsed by BBC Online, Life magazine, USA Today, Yahoo! Internet (among others), Common Errors In English Usage is a practical, sensible, and very highly recommended "reader friendly" educational resource and reference for anyone seeking to improve their personal command of the fine nuances of the English language. -- Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)

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Focus on Grammar 3: An Integrated Skills Approach, Third Edition

by: Marjorie Fuchs, Margaret Bonner, Miriam Westheimer

This is one of the best book that I have read and study for Grammar. -- Anongwan Sattabush "Tee" (Statesboro,GA USA)

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Focus on Grammar 4 (3rd Edition)

by: Marjorie Fuchs, Margaret Bonner

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The Little, Brown Handbook, Ninth Edition

by: H. Ramsey Fowler, Jane Aaron

Authoritative and accessible, The Little Brown Handbook helps writing students find what they need and then use what they find. One of the best-selling handbooks on the market, it provides comprehensive coverage of writing, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. Accompanied by the CompSolutions Plus Interactive Ebook of the text (sold separetely), The Little Brown Handbook retains all the hallmarks that has made it a bestseller over the years while continuing to meet the needs of a new generation of students. Provides complete, authoritative coverage of the writing process, research and grammar, with detailed discussions of critical thinking and argument, using computers and the Internet for writing and research, the latest guidelines for citing sources correctly in MLA, APA, CMS, CSE and COS styles, and writing in the disciplines. For anyone needing a reference geared to writing and/or researching papers.

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Clinician's Thesaurus, 6th Edition: The Guide to Conducting Interviews and Writing Psychological Reports (The Clinician's Toolbox)

by: Edward L. Zuckerman PhD

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Roget's International Thesaurus, 6th Edition

by: Barbara Ann Kipfer

Release Date: 07/02/2002

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The Merriam-Webster Thesaurus

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Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus

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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (Red Kivar Binding with Jacket)

by: Merriam-Webster

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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

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The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

by: Merriam-Webster

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New Comprehensive A-Z Crossword Dictionary

by: Edy G. Schaffer

Release Date: 10/01/1996

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