An Outline of the Grammar of the Safaitic Inscriptions (Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics)
by Ahmad Al-Jallad
This volume contains a detailed grammatical description of the dialects of Old Arabic attested in the Safaitic script, an Ancient North Arabian alphabet used mainly in the deserts of southern Syria and north-eastern Jordan in the pre-Islamic period. It is the first complete grammar of any Ancient North Arabian corpus, making it an important contribution to the fields of Arabic and Semitic studies. The volume covers topics in script and orthography, phonology, morphology, and syntax, and contains...
Mittelhochdeutsch
Wie bei kaum einer anderen Epoche sind in Forschung und Lehre zum Mittelhochdeutschen UEberlieferungsgeschichte, Textphilologie, historische Linguistik und Literaturgeschichte aufs engste verbunden. In uber 30 Aufsatzen, die Kurt Gartner zu seinem 75. Geburtstag gewidmet sind, schreiten altere und jungere Kolleginnen und Kollegen das gesamte Feld seiner langjahrigen Arbeit auf diesen Gebieten ab. Das thematische Spektrum der Beitrage reicht von UEberlieferungsstudien (u.a. zu einer fruhen Meiste...
Teaching English Language Learners
by Michaela Colombo and Dana Furbush
Teaching English Language Learners: Content and Language in Middle and Secondary Mainstream Classrooms is a user-friendly guide for planning, implementing, and assessing high-level, content-area instruction for English Language Learners. Starting with an overview of second language acquisition and the cultural variables that impact teaching and learning, this text goes on to detail planning strategies, units and lessons in the subject areas where it is most difficult to shelter content and scaff...
This handy, engaging, and gently humorous guide tackles the important subject of sentence construction. It looks at a variety of topics, such as sentence types, clauses, and phrases, and shows how sentence structure can be used to convey complete ideas clearly in a range of text types and genres.
Helping you deliver effective and integrated teaching of grammar.
A Writer's Grammar is a lively, engaging, and writing-intensive introduction to grammar from a rhetorical and stylistic perspective. A Writer's Grammar makes clear and interesting the relationship between good writing and grammatical knowledge. Presenting grammatical concepts in a hierarchical manner, it builds logically from basic elements to more advanced concepts, showing how grammar affects a writer's style. Writing instruction within each section gives students guided practice to help the...
Texas Language Arts Synonyms and Antonyms Elementary Workbook
by Test Master Press
Topic-based practice questions for the 11+ exam. Bond English Assessment Papers 5-6 years includes: *20 carefully graded practice papers *comprehensive coverage of all key English skills *answers and tips available online *motivating progress chart *comprehensive parental advice *step-by-step support to help your child achieve 11 plus success. Bond is the number one series for 11 plus practice, with over 45 years of experience. Written by expert authors Bond Assessment Papers offer continuous...
An expert recognised for his uncovering of the hidden, and often secret meaning of words, Kevin Hall now shares his wisdom with us all. In "Aspire!", he teaches readers to understand what words mean in their purest sense and unlock their importance as they develop a thoughtful new vocabulary. As Stephen R. Covey so beautifully elucidates in his foreword, 'this masterfully written book will help you understand that words have an inherent power, a force capable of lighting one's paths and horizons...
Written for adult beginning learners, Literacy Plus, by Joan Saslow, offers instruction in survival English and basic literacy at the same time. Literacy Plus A is for students who are pre-literate in their own language and know no English. Literacy Plus B is designed to follow Literacy Plus A, or for students who are literate in their own language but not in English. This comprehensive standards-based course helps students make daily progress on the path to literacy and oral communication. (Ser...
Trialled and tested in schools For the first time a comprehensive dictionary of word origins will be available for all school students. Each headword entry gives a complete and fascinating story about how a particular word came into the English language and evolved over time. In addition, each headword entry includes meanings and how each word is used in context. It also includes 40 extended panels covering a range of themes like: * Other languages which gave vocabulary to the English language...
Read Write Inc. Phonics: Blue Set 6 Storybooks: Our House (Read Write Inc. Phonics)
by Gill Munton
The Read Write Inc. Phonics storybooks provide structured practice in decoding words and reading through phonics. Each book offers practical and effective advice in guiding children through every story. They build confidence using fun and engaging stories with opportunities for talk and praise throughout. Every story uses artwork by Tim Archbold, who uses a style that has been likened Quentin Blake's, which children love. Read Write Inc Phonics is a proven synthetic phonics programme that ens...
The latest edition of Nelson spelling pupil books provide full coverage of the core spelling and punctuation curriculum.
Loose Cannons, Red Herrings, and Other Lost Metaphors
by Robert Claiborne
The English language is a treasury of splendid mysteries, among them the many words and phrases whose origins we no longer know. Often the original meaning was literal, pertaining to forgotten objects or activities—such as "aftermath," which once meant the grass that sprang up after a farmer had mowed a field. With the informal scholarship and good-humored wit that are his trademarks, Robert Claiborne reveals the wonders buried in our speech, vivid images of people and customs of the past. As th...
This is a dual language book to help learn and teach numbers and counting.
The latest edition of Nelson spelling pupil books provide full coverage of the core spelling and punctuation curriculum.
WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language: Student Book 1 (WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language)
by Michelle Doran, Natalie Simpson, Julie Swain, and Barry Childs
Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: Eduqas Level: GCSE Subject: English Language First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 Student Book 1 develops the key reading and writing skills that students will be assessed on in Component 1 and Component 2 of the WJEC GCSE English Language qualification. Structured around the Assessment Objectives, the book engages students through a thematic approach with inspiring texts that helps prepare students for the thematic co...
WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language: Student Book 2 (WJEC Eduqas GCSE English Language)
by Michelle Doran, Natalie Simpson, and Julie Swain
Please note this title is suitable for any student studying: Exam Board: Eduqas Level: GCSE Subject: English Language First teaching: 2015 First exams: 2017 Student Book 2 provides extensive guidance and activities, in the context of the Component 1 and Component 2 exam questions, on how to improve reading and writing skills. With sample student responses, at different levels, students can improve their own responses and gain an enhanced understanding of the skills required to succeed in the...
Read Write Inc. Phonics: Purple Set 2 B/W Storybooks: School Pack of 100 books (Read Write Inc. Phonics)
by Ruth Miskin
The Read Write Inc. Phonics storybooks provide structured practice in decoding words and reading through phonics. Each set of books is carefully graded so that children can read them with confidence, as soon as they have learned the sounds linked to the set. Black and white versions of all the storybooks are available for children to use for their own work and take home. Read Write Inc Phonics is a proven synthetic phonics programme that ensures early success in reading, writing and spelling....
Practical English for the Caribbean
by Imelda Pilgrim, Marian Slee, Lindsay McNab, Wayne Campbell, Jean Dwyer, Novelette Francis, Charmaine Tingling, Myrna Patrick, and Julia Beckles
Support for functional / basic English skills that turns the theory into practice and using a range of stimulus material such as prose extracts, poems, adverts and photographs.