"Boosting your word power will improve your overall speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. That's why you need Think You Know Your Vocabulary?--the ultimate guide to building and using the right words effectively." --

"Middle school students can use the lessons in this eBook to help improve their vocabulary for class, homework, and important tests--in just 15 minutes a day!" --

This title is a terrific introduction to simple prefixes and suffixes for young readers. Easy-to-read sentences about gardens, alongside supporting photographs, show how prefixes and suffixes change the meaning of words. Kids will enjoy the fun and simple illustrated rhyming story, Madison Grows a Lovely Garden, which reinforces the word building concept. A multiple-choice quiz is also included. Super Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company....

This guide provides students, career-builders, and professional writers with the basic elements needed for writing in the 21st century. It fully explains, and links, the five essentials of good writing: punctuation, grammar, fact-checking, style, and voice. Throughout history technology has changed both language and writing. Today in the digital age, language and writing are changing at a phenomenal pace. Students, career-builders, and professional...

Practice is the best way to ensure student success in reading comprehension and writing. 8th Grade Reading Comprehension and Writing Skills urges students to find out where to focus their study efforts in order to prepare for state assessments in English language arts and increase test-taking confidence on all standardized exams. This targeted guide gives students the additional practice they need to succeed. In this book, 8th graders will find:...

"Express Review Guides: Vocabulary will give you the skills you need to expand your vocabulary. This guide lays out the building blocks of meaning for many common words, making it easier to recognize similar words and decipher their meaning." --

Here is the story of Christy Mahon, hailed as a hero (and an immediate object of romantic attention) for his claim to have killed his cruel father. However, when he finds out his father survived, Mahon attempts to murder him a second time. Will he succeed? Considered Synge's masterpiece, this play was viewed as indecent and met with riots when first performed.

In the Third Edition of this widely popular book, preservice and inservice teachers get sound instructional strategies for teaching the language arts to young children from birth to kindergarten and enhancing their reading, writing, speaking, and listening development.

"Practical Vocabulary will help you improve your vocabulary by arming you with words that are often used, but less often understood. It also shows you the secrets of breaking down new words to figure out what they mean without a dictionary." --