The Handy History Answer Book

The book details:

• Title: The Handy History Answer Book.
• Author(s): Rebecca Ferguson.
• Publisher: Visible Ink Press.
• Language: English.
•  Size: 9.94 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2006.
• Pages: 672, 2nd Edition .

A concise guide to all things historical, this compendium addresses people, times, and events in a wide-ranging and comprehensive manner, complemented by helpful illustrations and a chronology of major events. Some of the history-making events include the election of George W. Bush, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; spectacular images from probes in outer space, medical advances and debate, and many new scientific discoveries on Earth; a devastating earthquake in Iran and the deadly tsunami in Asia; the downfall of Enron and the comeback of Apple, as well as the dot-com bubble burst.

Teaching Reading and Writing: A Guidebook for Tutoring and Remediating Students

The book details:

• Title: Teaching Reading and Writing: A Guidebook for Tutoring and Remediating Students.
• Author(s): Andrew P. Johnson.
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 1.58 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2008.
• Pages: 273.

 Providing a wealth of simple, research-based strategies for teaching reading and writing, this book is designed for each chapter to be accessible to teachers, tutors, parents, and paraprofessionals. Teaching Reading and Writing demonstrates that effective literacy instruction does not have to be complicated or expensive. Each chapter provides easy-to use techniques and with Internet search terms.
This guide presents teaching methods that can be implemented without having to acquire additional books, packages, or other instructional devices. All you need is paper, pencil, books, teacher creativity and imagination, and a desire to help students.

Reading Assessment and Instruction for All Learners

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• Title: Reading Assessment and Instruction for All Learners.
• Author(s): Jeanne Shay Schumm.
• Publisher: Guilford Publications.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 2.42 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: May 2006.
• Pages: 593.

 Weaving together the latest knowledge and best practices for teaching children to read, this indispensable text and professional resource provides a complete guide to differentiated instruction for diverse learners. Uniquely integrative, the book places the needs of English language learners and students with disabilities front and center instead of treating them as special topics.

Accessible chapters on each of the core components of literacy clearly demonstrate how to link formal and informal assessment to evidence-based instruction. Special features include

Reading Comprehension: Strategies for Independent Learners

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• Title: Reading Comprehension: Strategies for Independent Learners.
• Author(s): Camille Blachowicz and Donna Ogle.
• Publisher: The Guilford Press.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 11.85 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2008, 2nd Edition.
• Pages: 321.

 This book is essential reading for those who are new to teaching or who want to enhance their comprehension instruction. The user-friendly format allows teachers to read the book from cover to cover or to sample individual chapters based on interests or needs. From strategies for reading fiction and nonfiction to ideas for engaging in research and other learning tasks, Blachowicz and Ogle’s informative work is packed with useful explanations, techniques, and tips for helping students become better comprehenders. Based on extensive work with teachers and students in schools, this practical book deserves a special place on any literacy educator’s bookshelf."--Rachel Brown, PhD, Reading and Language Arts Center, Syracuse University"This artfully constructed book allows any teacher, novice or experienced, to walk away with an increased knowledge base on reading comprehension. The authors have succeeded in conveying this complex topic in a comprehensive yet easy-to-read and practical format.

Power Reading: The Best Course on Speedreading and Comprehension Improvement Ever Developed!, 3rd Edition

8th Grade Reading Comprehension Success

The book details:

• Title: 8th Grade Reading Comprehension Success.
• Author(s): Elizabeth L. Chesla.
• Publisher: LearningExpress.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 1.29 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: September 25, 2001.
• Pages: 192.

 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: A pretest to pinpoint strengths and weaknesses A posttest to show progress made 31 short lessons that gradually increase in difficulty Practice exercises to help

Beginning Reading: A Balanced Approach to Reading Instruction During the First Three Years at School

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• Title: Beginning Reading: A Balanced Approach to Reading Instruction During the First Three Years at School.
• Author(s): Yola Center.
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin.
• Language: English.
• Size: 1.99 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: November 9, 2005.
• Pages: 306.

 At last! A book that attempts to combine an overview of recent research findings and their implications for the teaching of reading with sensible and practical suggestions for classroom teachers. This book will be a useful addition to reading lists for those involved in teacher education.' Morag Stuart, Institute of Education, University of London, UK

'This is an excellent book. It comprehensively reviews the research literature and shows how to apply it to the nuts and bolts of teaching reading in the first few years of school. It is a must-read for teachers.' Professor Tom Nicholson, Faculty of Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 3rd Edition

The book details:

• Title: Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day, 3rd Edition.
• Author(s): LearningExpress Editors.
• Publisher: LearningExpress.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 2.54 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2005.
• Pages: 193.

Do you want to improve your English reading skills in an easy and clear way. Did your reading skills in English is not much better as you wish? Do you want to read English fast and improve your skills in reading? If so, you need this amazing book.  Reading Comprehension Success in 20 Minutes a Day is a good resources book , designed to help you get better result in your reading skills. You will find it useful and helpfully resources to help you improve your skills in reading in a better and fantastic way.

Quick, critical reading is an essential skill that is used in standardized tests, jobs, schools, and more. Be it literature, essays, tech writing, or articles, this fully updated edition of Reading

Teach Yourself Speed Reading

The book details:

• Title: Teach Yourself Speed Reading.
• Author(s): Tina Constant.
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill.
• Language: English.
• Size: 15.61 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2003, 2nd Edition.
• Pages: 191.

Speed-reading is about reading--and being able to recall--more written information in less time. Following a unique five-step system, this practical guide teaches readers the basics of speed-reading in less than an hour.
It includes tools and information on a variety of reading and memory techniques that allow readers to start using and practicing the techniques as they read--and therefore finish this book in a fraction of the time they would have taken previously.

Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words

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• Title: Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words .
• Author(s): Barbara Wall.
• Publisher: Harper.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 1.04 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: February 28, 2006.
• Pages: 207.

Despite the many thousands of dictionary words at our disposal, our language can be dismayingly inadequate. How many times have you searched for a word that means just what you want it to but failed to find anything suitable anywhere? Most of us, it turns out, lead lives rife with experiences, people, and things that have no names.

At least, they lacked names until now. Word Fugitives comes to the rescue, supplying hundreds of inspired words coined or redefined to meet everyday needs. For instance, wouldn't it be handy to have a word for the momentary confusion people experience when they hear a cell phone ringing and wonder whether it's theirs? (How about fauxcellarm, phonundrum, or pandephonium?)

Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear

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• Title: Words That Work: It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear .
• Author(s): Frank I. Luntz .
• Publisher: Hyperion.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 1.39 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: December 20, 2006.
• Pages: 360.

This book is masterful in its exploration of the use of language in American life, especially in business and politics. It was written by Dr. Frank Luntz, who calls himself a "linguistic geek." It's ideal for anyone, like me, who loves words and reading.

The subhead to the book is "It's not what you say, it's what people hear." The trick is to speak in a way to make people hear what you want them to hear. To be persuasive. As Luntz writes, "It's not enough to be correct or reasonable or even brilliant." People must first listen, and then understand.

TimeSaver Newspaper Articles to Get Teenagers Talking

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• Title: TimeSaver Newspaper Articles to Get Teenagers Talking.
• Author(s): Peter Dainty.
• Publisher: Scholastic.
• Language: English.
• Size: 3.29 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Pages: 90.

Not all teachers have time to find newspaper articles and build lessons around them. This Timesaver brings together a variety of authentic newspaper articles from the British press which can be used as a springboard for stimulating discussion and debate with teenage classes.
A collection of articles from a variety of British newspapers covering themes from environment and war to food and shopping. Great material to get your students discussing the issues of the day.

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

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• Title: Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy LessonsAuthor(s): Siegfried Engelmann, Phyllis Haddox, Elaine Bruner.
• Publisher: Fireside.
• Language: English.
• Size: 51.8 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 1986.
• Pages: 395 .

Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong? SRAs DISTAR® is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTAR® method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, step-by-step program that shows patents simply and clearly how to teach their children to read.

Can Read You Like a Book

The book details:

• Title: I Can Read You Like a Book: how to spot messages and emotions people are really sending with their body language.
• Author(s): Gregory Hartley and Maryann Karinch.
• Publisher: Career Press.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 12 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2007.
• Pages: 289.

This informative tale claims that listeners will easily learn the craft of reading body language upon completing this recorded course. Authors and narrators Hartley and Karinch try to convey the lessons in a straightforward seminar, but they almost seem to be outdoing each other. They take turns speaking, sometimes only one word at a time, while at other times Hartley assumes the role of the main speaker as Karinch spouts off chapter titles and section headlines every so often.

She acts more like an all-knowing dictionary and encyclopedia, making this audiobook sound more like a textbook.

Reading for Every Child: Phonemic Awareness

The book details:

• Title: Reading for Every Child: Phonemic Awareness, Grades K-1.
• Author(s): Anne L. Steele.
• Publisher: Frank Schaffer.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 2.70 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2005.
• Pages: 82.

This book is a good one for every child to help him learn reading English in a beater way. It is very interesting and fun book to help children enjoy learning English reading in an easy and more clear way.

Based on national standards, No Child Left Behind legislation, and founded on the latest research, every teacher will be provided with instructional explanations and stimulating activities to facilitate and encourage life-long readers. Teacher tips help students auditorally recognize and identify phonemes.

The Familiars

The book details:

• Title: The Familiars
  Author(s): Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson.
• Language: American English.
• Publisher: HarperCollinsSize: 2.2 Mb.
• Format: PDF .
• Date: 2010.
• Pages: 132.

 One of the unique things about this book is that we co-authored it. The two of us literally sat in the same room for months and months writing every word, sentence, and paragraph together. Andrew is the typist (because he's frankly a much faster typer), while Adam sits beside him, or across from him in a nice, comfy chair, or sometimes paces around.
Neither one of us were English majors in college or had any book writing experience previously, but we've both read a lot, watched a lot, and lived inside our imaginations since we were little kids.

How to Master English language?

Modern science has provided us a universal method by which we may study and master any subject.  As applied to an art, this method has proved highly successful in the case of music.  It has not been applied to language because there was a well fixed method of language study in existence long before modern science was even dreamed of, and that ancient method has held on with wonderful tenacity. 

The great fault with it is that it was invented to apply to languages entirely different from our own.  Latin grammar and Greek grammar were mechanical systems of endings by which the relationships of words were indicated. Of course the relationship of words was at bottom logical, but the mechanical form was the chief thing to be learned.  Our language depends wholly (or very nearly so) on arrangement of words, and the key is the logical relationship.

Easy Ways to Ease Anger

The book details:

• Title: Easy Ways to Ease Anger
  Author(s): Ambassador of the Mind.
• Language: American English.
• Size: 2.1 Mb.
• Format: PDF.
• Date: 2008.
• Pages: 50.

  Easy Ways to Ease Anger is a good book for anyone looking for ways to help him ease anger. This book, contains a lot of information that will help you get ride of from your anger in an easy and more active way.
A little bit about anger. Anger has a poisonous root and sweet release. This Pali saying means that, in the beginning, anger will poison the mind, causing irritation, impatience and rage, prompting the angry persons to vent their feelings by scolding, attacking, or damaging the object of their anger.
After the outburst, they will feel satisfied, which explains why anger is said to have a sweet release.

The Wordsmiths And The Warguild

The book details:

• Title: The Wordsmiths and the Warguild .
• Author: Hugh Cook.
• Publisher:  Lulu.com.
• Language: English.
• Date: March 20, 2006.
• Format: PDF.
• Pages: 328.

 Cook began his fantasy series Chronicles of an Age of Darkness with the witty Wizards and the Warriors, which viewed magicians as their world's equivalent of none-too-responsible nuclear physicists. This second volume offers the picaresque adventures of stalwart, hapless Togura Poulaan. Seeking only to free his beloved Day Suet, Togura escapes war, imprisonment and encounters with spirits, pirates, dragons, talking rocks and pagan tribes.

In fact, the author seems to delight in tormenting his hero, a somewhat Don Quixoteish figure. The resulting shifts in tonesardonic, philosophic, pragmatic and pedagogickeep the reader interested and off balance, never sure what's next or why. The highlight of the book is the depiction of the odex, the creature that has swallowed the heroine.

Read English and Your English Will Get Better Thane Ever Before!

I sharing with you a good different articles from different  resources to help you get your English reading and speaking skills better than before. I hop enjoying learning English with us here in Learn English Online.

At the outbreak of hostilities, a few of the most far-sighted employers, contemplating a shortage of labor through the recruitment of men for military service, hazarded the opinion that women might be employed on all kinds of simple repetition work in the Engineering Shops. Further than that even the optimist did not go. There was also no indication that women would be willing to adventure into a world where long hours and night-work prevailed, from which evils they were protected in the days of peace by stringent Factory Acts. Events have proved that the women of Great Britain are as ready as their men folk to sacrifice comfort and personal convenience to the demands of a great cause, and as soon as it was made known that their services were required, they came forward in their hundreds of thousands.

They have come from the office and the shop, from domestic service and the dressmaker's room, from the High Schools and the Colleges, and from the quietude of the stately homes of the leisured rich. They have traveled from far-off corners in the United Kingdom as well as from homesteads in Australia and New Zealand, and from lonely farms in South Africa and Canada. Every stratum of society has provided its share of willing women workers eager from one cause or another to 'do their bit'.