This helpful book contains targeted review lessons that take students and parents step-by-step through all of the essential reading topics they need to know, clear explanations of core reading concepts with detailed examples, and helpful practice and review exercises with easy-to-follow explanations.

This entertaining and, yes, eloquent book illuminates the power of language from a linguistic point of view and provides fascinating insights into the way we use words. David Crystal's lively analysis encompasses everyday situations (wedding speeches, business presentations, storytelling) as well as the oratory of great public gatherings. Crystal focuses on the here and now of eloquent speaking--from pitch, pace, and prosody to jokes, appropriateness,...

A reference guide of expressions and idioms designed to get readers engaging with each other through word games and puzzles. So to Speak spurs discussion, debate, and play, while encouraging the art of listening and celebrating the joy of words.

Pairs a humorous illustration with a definition. From "raining cats and dogs" to "ants in your pants," this picture book celebrates our animal friends and takes a closer look at the curious ways we describe everyday situations.

Richard E. Rubin's book has served as the authoritative introductory text for generations of library and information science practitioners, with each new edition taking in its stride the myriad societal, technological, political, and economic changes affecting our users and institutions and transforming our discipline. Rubin teams up with his daughter, Rachel G. Rubin, a rising star in the library field in her own right, for the fifth edition.

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In Where the Past Begins, bestselling author of The Joy Luck Club and The Valley of Amazement Amy Tan reveals herself in a way she never has before, delving into her childhood, adolescence, family history, beginnings as a writer and professional life to explore the answers to questions of purpose and meaning that we all ask ourselves as we get older.

Moving from her childhood in Oakland and growing up with her Chinese parents through her

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From a journey of giraffes to a gaggle of geese, come explore animals and the wonderful words we use to describe them. Featuring dictionary definitions, these picture books of collective nouns will grow kids’ vocabulary and expand their understanding of the world around them.

In this accessible book, readers will learn how verbs are used in a sentence and why they are vital to the sentence's structure. Comprehensible, at-level text and vibrant, relatable photographs help readers gain fluency as they learn about this important language arts concept.

Engaging text helps readers understand why these words are important in their own speech and writing and the wide variety of pronouns in the English language. Vocabulary and concepts are closely related to the colorful photographs and support the comprehension of age-appropriate elementary curricula.

Readers of this engaging volume will learn why adjectives are so helpful and the many different types, including colors, sizes, and even weather words. Quiz questions throughout the text support important skills of language arts curricula and help readers self-assess their understanding. Relatable images correlate closely with the inviting text and aid reading comprehension.