The Best Study & Teaching Language Arts & Disciplines Books 2025

1. Children's Books in Children's Hands: A Brief Introduction to Their Literature, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

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Children's Books in Children's Hands: A Brief Introduction to Their Literature, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

2. Write Like This, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

Pre-Owned - If you want to learn how to shoot a basketball, you begin by carefully observing someone who knows how to shoot a basketball. If you want to be a writer, you begin by carefully observing the work of accomplished writers. Recognizing the importance that modeling plays in the learning process, high school English teacher Kelly Gallagher shares how he gets his students to stand next to and pay close attention to model writers, and how doing so elevates his students' writing abilities. Write Like This is built around a central premise: if students are to grow as writers, they need to read good writing, they need to study good writing, and, most important, they need to emulate good writers.In Write Like This, Kelly emphasizes real-world writing purposes, the kind of writing he wants his students to be doing twenty years from now. Each chapter focuses on a specific discourse: express and reflect, inform and explain, evaluate and judge, inquire and explore, analyze and interpret, and take a stand/propose a solution. In teaching these lessons, Kelly provides mentor texts (professional samples as well as models he has written in front of his students), student writing samples, and numerous assignments and strategies proven to elevate student writing.By helping teachers bring effective modeling practices into their classrooms, Write Like This enables students to become better adolescent writers. More important, the practices found in this book will help our students develop the writing skills they will need to become adult writers in the real world.

Write Like This, Pre-Owned (Paperback)

3. Capturing Chinese the New Year's Sacrifice: A Chinese Reader with Pinyin, Footnotes, and an English Translation to Help Break Into Chinese Literature [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Lu Xun, the father of modern Chinese literature, is an essential read for the intermediate and advanced student of Chinese. A New Year's Sacrifice is one of Lu Xun's best works from his second collection of short stories, Wondering. Due to its complex writing system, Chinese is one of the most difficult languages in the world. Full literacy of Chinese requires a working knowledge of three to four thousand Chinese characters and breaking into reading Chinese literature is a daunting task. Capturing Chinese: Lu Xun's A New Year's Sacrifice presents one of the best works of modern Chinese literature as a comprehensive tool to help students of Chinese read Chinese literature in its original form. Footnotes highlight the more difficult vocabulary and pinyin is provided for the entire text. There is no need to constantly consult a dictionary or to look up difficult characters by radical. Historical events, people, and places are explained throughout and illustrations recreate the scenes. The text used in this book is in simplified characters. An English translation of the story is included and helps readers gain a full understanding of the story. * Full story unabridged in simplified Chinese * Pinyin for the entire text * Definitions for difficult vocabulary * Historical explanations and summaries * English translation * Illustrations throughout * Free MP3s read by two native speakers Free audio files of Lu Xun's A New Year's Sacrifice are also included with the purchase of this book and are available for download from the publisher's website, www.CapturingChinese.com. The audio files include both a woman and male speaker.

The New Year's Sacrifice : A Chinese Reader with Pinyin, Footnotes, and an English Translation to Help Break into Chinese Literature (Capturing Chinese), Used [Paperback]

4. Tips for Teaching with CALL: Practical Approaches to Computer-Assisted Language Learning [With CDROM] [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This practical reference book links specific techniques for using Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) with contemporary CALL research. The book and CD-ROM demonstrate why and how to use CALL to teach vocabulary, grammar, reading, writing, listening, speaking, communication skills and content-based learning.

Tips for Teaching with CALL : Practical Approaches to Computer-Assisted Language Learning, Used [Paperback]

5. Guided Writing: Practical Lessons, Powerful Results [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Guided Writing is your handbook for the newest, most effective way to move students into independent writing. Lori Oczkus provides everything you need to support children in the fledgling phase between carefully modeled group writing and their first solo pieces. Guided Writing explains how to observe which stage of writing development your writers are in, how to challenge them to stretch their writing into the next developmental phase, and how to provide specific teaching that helps them achieve goals they can't reach alone. Guided Writing includes motivational and instructional ideas; organizational and classroom management principles for whole class, peer group, or teacher-led small group instruction; graphic organizers; and techniques for any literacy classroom as well as ready-to-use, engaging, scaffolded lessons across several commonly taught genres: poetry personal narrative patterned writing expository writing. This comprehensive resource is linked to the widely used six-traits model of instruction and includes dozens of examples of student work, reproducible worksheets, student-friendly activities, teacher-friendly assessment rubrics, and creative ways for students to share their writing - absolutely everything you need to make guided writing your favorite and most effective instructional method. Discover Guided Writing for yourself. See the powerful effect smart, scaffolded instruction can have on your writers, and watch them make a smooth transition to independent writing with confidence and competence.

Guided Writing : Practical Lessons, Powerful Results, Used [Paperback]

6. Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read, Used [Paperback]

Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language-and will forever change the way you read and write. Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language-and will forever change the way you read and write. Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it's two words ('Jesus wept.') or William Faulkner's 1,287-word sentence in Absalom! Absalom! , sentences have the power to captivate, entertain, motivate, educate, and, most importantly, delight. Yet the sentence-oriented approach to writing is too often overlooked in favor of bland economy. Building Great Sentences teaches you to write better sentences by luxuriating in the pleasures of language. Award-winning Professor Brooks Landon draws on examples from masters of long, elegant sentences-including Don DeLillo, Virginia Woolf, Joan Didion, and Samuel Johnson-to reveal the mechanics of how language works on thoughts and emotions, providing the tools to write powerful, more effective sentences. 'The most erudite, readable book anyone has ever written on the sentence.' Adrian Blevins, associate professor of English, Colby College 'An Elements of Style for the prodigious. Building Great Sentences is a service to writers and a joy to read.' R. M. Berry, professor, Florida State University www.thegreatcourses.com

Building Great Sentences: How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read, Used [Paperback]

7. The Creative Teacher: An Encyclopedia of Ideas to Energize Your Curriculum (McGraw-Hill Teacher Resources), Used [Paperback]

Written by three highly experienced educators and authors of the bestselling The Organized Teacher, this book is a valuable resource for new or experienced teachers, providing more material than any other book for the price. It contains highly illustrated reproducible 81/2 x 11 worksheets and other materials for immediate classroom use.

The Creative Teacher : An Encyclopedia of Ideas to Energize Your Curriculum, Used [Paperback]

8. Practical Handbook to Elementary Foreign Language Programs (Fles* : Including Sequential Fles, Flex, and Immersion Programs) [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Gives practical advice on how to establish, maintain, and improve all types of foreign language in elementary school (FLES) programs. Coverage includes Sequential FLES, exploratory programs (FLEX), and immersion programs. Provides information on areas including evaluation of programs, student asses

Practical Handbook to Elementary Foreign Language Programs (Fles* : Including Sequential Fles, Flex, and Immersion Programs), Used [Paperback]

9. If--Then--Curriculum : Assessment-Based Instruction, Grade 4 [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. If--Then--Curriculum : Assessment-Based Instruction, Grade 4 by Lucy Calkins

If--Then--Curriculum : Assessment-Based Instruction, Grade 4, Used [Paperback]

10. Writing to Persuade (Write Now) [Library Binding - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. This useful book offers students the tools for writing strong persuasive letters and reports. Students will learn what separates fact from opinion and where they can find interesting and reliable facts to back up their arguments. The book also offers students tools like pro and con lists and writing webs to help make persuasive writing easy.

Writing to Persuade, Used [Library Binding]