Language Arts category: 28677 books
by Mark Browning
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
In this follow up to Stephen King on the Big Screen (2009) Mark Browning turns his critical eye upon the much-neglected subject of the best-selling author’s work in television, examining what it is about King’s fiction that makes it particularly suitable for the small screen.By focusing on this body...
by Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Bob Fecho
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. It underscores the value of providing students with a range of different critical approaches and tools for interpreting texts and the need to...
What's in a Name?
From Joseph P. Frisbie to Roy Jacuzzi, How Everyday Items Were Named for Extraor dinary People
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
A brilliant and personal literary journey, in which Philip Dodd tells the curious tales of people whose names--deliberately or by chance--became household words
What's in a name? For Philip Dodd, this question led to an international tour, sleuthing the history of some of our most intriguing...
by Tyrean Martinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2016
Honored by a friend’s request to use Champion in the Darkness in her language arts classroom, I wrote this study guide with her small, private school class in mind. However, the lessons may be modified to fit larger classrooms, or even home-school studies.In this study, teachers and students will...
Oxymoronica
Paradoxical Wit and Wisdom from History's Greatest Wordsmiths
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2009
ox-y-mor-on-i-ca (OK-se-mor-ON-uh-ca) noun, plural: Any variety of tantalizing, self-contradictory statements or observations that on the surface appear false or illogical, but at a deeper level are true, often profoundly true. See also oxymoron, paradox.
examples:
"Melancholy is...
by Sandy Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
This book provides 90 quick fluency exercises suitable for nearly any age group. They are arranged into three six-week programs of increasing difficulty and also provided in a single comprehensive six-week form. Build Fluency Muscle offers simple assessment tools to document progress. The book is...
by Lisa Eisold
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Speech Science / Linguistics, grade: High Distinction, 92%, 1,0, University of Newcastle (Faculty of Education and Arts), course: Cross-Cultural Linguistics, language: English, abstract: 'Fernweh' functions as a cultural key word for a whole generation...
The Scene Book
A Primer for the Fiction Writer
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2007
A treasure-trove of scene-writing wisdom from award-winning author and teacher Sandra Scofield
To write a good scene, you have to know the following:
Every scene has an EVENT
Every scene has a FUNCTION in the narrative
Every scene has a STRUCTURE: a beginning, middle, and end
Every...
by Christopher Cannon
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
The first lessons we learn in school can stay with us all our lives, but this was nowhere more true than in the last decades of the fourteenth century when grammar-school students were not only learning to read and write, but understanding, for the first time, that their mother tongue, English, was...
The Other Face of America
Chronicles of the Immigrants Shaping Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
Immigrants in America are at the heart of what makes this country the most prosperous and visionary in the world. Writing from his own heartfelt perspective as an immigrant, Jorge Ramos, one of the world’s most popular and well-respected Spanish-language television news broadcasters, listens to...
Waypoints
Seascapes and Stories of Scotland's West Coast
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2017
Adventure, memoir, storytelling and celebration of all things maritime meet in Waypoints, a beautifully written account of sea journeys from Scotland's west coast. In the book Ian Stephen reveals a lifetime's love affair with sailing; each voyage honours a seagoing vessel, and each adventure is accompanied...
The Right Word!
How to Say What You Really Mean
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Every writer needs help with words: choosing them, using them, spelling them correctly. When is optimal or optimum the better choice? Why use germane when relevant is, well, more relevant? Created for just such tortuous (torturous?) situations, this handy guide provides an A-to-Z listing of troublesome,...
by Nick Birch
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2014
Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2014 in the subject Communications - Media and Politics, Politic Communications, grade: 1.4, Central Queensland University, course: Applied Communication Arts, language: English, abstract: Mass Communication is a primary contributor to the construction and...
DIY Media in the Classroom
New Literacies Across Content Areas
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book shows teachers how to bring students’ Do-It-Yourself media practices into the classroom (Grades 6–12). In one accessible resource, the authors explain DIY media, identify their appealing features for content area instruction, and describe the literacy skills and strategies they...