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Bring out the poet in your students! Poetry is a wonderful catalyst for helping students understand and appreciate written and oral language. And this book includes a variety of activities and poetry types to reinforce language elements such as the alphabet, syllables, words, and phrases.

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"Riding the Alligator" is the first book that explores both specific screenplay writing techniques, while simultaneously imparting industry-tested strategies for carving out a successful, long-term career.

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This text presents a new model of conversation based on time, in this case referring both to the rhythmic organization of conversation, the tempo, and to the right time or timing. These two notions of time correspond to two major systems governing conversation: the turn taking system and the rapport system.

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Aims to help parents and teachers identify children's reading difficulties and then suggest ways to deal with them. This book contains practical solutions, showing there are many ways to improve your child's reading and stimulate a love of books.

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Advancing the application of Carl Rogers' ideas, this book presents new theoretical and practical views of Rogerian influences on rhetorical theory, the teaching of writing, and pragmatic discourse.

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Advancing the application of Carl Rogers' ideas, this book presents new theoretical and practical views of Rogerian influences on rhetorical theory, the teaching of writing, and pragmatic discourse.

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Although over 100 million people on various continents use Portuguese as their major language, the academic community in the United States has almost totally neglected the study of Portuguese linguistics.

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Details the sense of insufficiency - of groundlessness, of arbitrariness - which threatens the central claim of early modern pedagogy

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Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics. This book introduces the reader to the ways in which Saussure developed his revolutionary insights on language in the context of the linguistics of his time. It is suitable for those studying Saussure, and structural linguistics.

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Ferdinand de Saussure (1857-1913) is generally considered one of the main founders of modern linguistics and semiotics. This title introduces the reader to the ways in which Saussure developed his revolutionary insights on language and demystifies his complex theories.

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In the long-awaited sequel to his surprise bestseller, "Save the Cat!," author and screenwriter Snyder returns to form in a fast-paced follow-up that proves why his is the most talked-about approach to screenwriting in years.

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Communicate easily and effectively with Spanish-speaking students and their parents in no time! Ideal for Spanish as a Second Language (SSL) classes and FLES (Foreign Language in the Elementary Schools), bilingual, and homeschooling programs, this book is a great resource for schools with Spanish-speaking populations.

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Award-winning storyteller Dianne de Las Casas offers a primer on how to tell a spooky story, with 25 tales organized by age appropriateness and tips on how to effectively tell each tale.

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Finally, a book to help educators promote sure-fire reading pleasers to boy readers in grades 3-12!

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Writing development has been a key area of research in applied linguistics. Using a systemic functional grammar, this book outlines developmental changes in writing in three major areas of the school curriculum - English, history, and science - as children move from early childhood to late childhood and on to adolescence and adulthood.

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Examines scientific discourse using a textographic framework, highlighting tensions between global and local trends in academic writing.

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Examines scientific discourse using a textographic framework, highlighting tensions between global and local trends in academic writing. This book contests monolingual assumptions informing scientific discourse, calling attention to emerging glocal discourses that make hybrids of the standard globalized and local academic English norms.