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America's most influential writing teacher offers an engaging and practical guide to effective short-form writing.
In HOW TO WRITE SHORT, Roy Peter Clark turns his attention to the art of painting a thousand pictures with just a few words. Short forms of writing have always existed-from ship logs and telegrams to prayers and haikus. But in this ever-changing Internet age, short-form writing has become an essential skill. Clark covers how to write...
62) My "b" sound box
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
410L
Language
English
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"Little b has an adventure with items beginning with her letter's sound, such as birds, a baby baboon, a ball, a bat, and a bicycle."--Publisher.
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English
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Just as we should think before we speak, we need to think before we write.Most of us are not poets or novelists, but we are all writers. We email, text, and post; we craft memos and reports, menus and outdoor signage, birthday cards and sticky notes on the fridge.Get a Grip on Your Grammar is a grammar book for those who hate grammar books, a writing resource filled with quick answers and a playful style-not endless, indecipherable grammar jargon.Get...
65) I see OR
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English
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"This interactive book features pictures of familiar objects whose names contain the r-controlled sound of or. Simple sentences, decodable words, and engaging questions support young readers as they sharpen fluency and phonics skills. Downloadable Teacher Notes available."--
67) Nouns
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English
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"Without nouns, there would be no way to name what kind of object is in someone's hands or where you want to go. Students will be amazed at just how many nouns they know and how nouns are the building blocks for the world around them. This book travels through the world of people, places, things, and ideas, with simple explanations for how nouns can range from abstract to concrete"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Lexile measure
120L
Language
English
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"In Let's Learn Word Families, emergent readers learn to rhyme, spell, and identify different word families. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, ensuring reading success by making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Let's Learn Word Families includes tools for teachers and caregivers as well as introductory nonfiction features such...
Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (30 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This lecture looks at how we define and categorize words into parts of speech, and considers the fascinating ways in which words expand or move into new categories. Study how we characterize nouns, verbs, adverbs, and their syntax, and delineate the difference between a phrase, a clause, and a sentence.
Publisher
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Edition
Updated & expanded edition.
Physical Desc
24a, 824 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
More than 36,000 entries with expanded definitions, usage examples, and nearly 1,300 quotes from classic and contemporary children's literature.
72) My "d" sound box
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
350L
Language
English
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"Little d has an adventure with items beginning with her letter's sound, such as dolls, ducks, dogs, and a dozen donuts."--Publisher.
73) Joey and Jet
Author
Series
Joey and Jet volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A boy and his dog play a game of fetch in a field of prepositions--among, between, past, and all around.
Author
Series
The Hueys volume 4
Language
English
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Description
Quirky egg-shaped creatures known as the Hueys explore the concept of opposites.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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From the same team that brought you My Momma Likes to Say comes this delightful interpretation of maxims, idioms, proverbs, and clichés many students remember hearing on a regular basis in the classroom. From 'Do you have ants in your pants?' to 'Stick together!' and 'Great minds think alike,' readers will be intrigued by the history of these adages, told in poetry form as well as expository text, and amused by the witty illustrations, depicting...
78) Writing basics
Publisher
Cerebellum
Pub. Date
2000.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (135 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Covers how to write: stating and supporting a position, the general characteristics of college writing, the writing process, clarifying your assignment, looking for key words, freewriting, purpose, audience, format, journals, collecting information, print sources, computer sources, outlining, clustering, rough drafts, getting feedback, organization, the introduction, the thesis statement, revising your theses, transition sentences, revising your rough...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Can learning about punctuation really be fun? You bet--in Elsa Knight Bruno's Punctuation Celebration, featuring illlustrations by Jenny Whitehead
Punctuation marks come alive in this clever picture book featuring fourteen playful poems. Periods stop sentences in a baker's shop, commas help a train slow down, quotation marks tell people what to do, and colons stubbornly introduce lists. This appealing primer is a surefire way to make punctuation...
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