Read Alouds help to build children’s listening comprehension. This anthology offers selections from a variety of genres, including biography, fiction, folktales, nonfiction, songs, and poetry, to share with children. Instruction is provided with each selection to develop specific comprehension strategies.

Saving Our Prepositions - A Guide For The Perplexed

What are prepositions?  Easy.  Prepositions are those diminutive and deceptively simple words, like “at,” “by” “for,” “in,” “of,” “on” and ”to,” which are entrusted with the humble task of connecting one part of sentence to another.  They are the vital building blocks of the English language, and few sentences would be complete or even possible without them.  Yet they are also the banana peels of modern speech and we constantly slip up on them.  The unfortunate result is a rash of awkwardness, confusion and misunderstanding.

Over the course of 13 years and five novels, Louise Erdrich has staked out a richly imagined corner of North Dakota soil--her own Yoknapatawpha, where every character is connected to every other and nothing can be said to happen for the first time. The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse is no exception. The report in question comes from Father Damien Modeste, who has served the Ojibwe through a century of famine, epidemics, murders, and feuds. But the good priest is not what he appears.

5-minute Daily Practice: Vocabulary (Grades 4-8)

This book includes: suffixes, synonyyms, antonyms, and much more.

Help kids succeed in class and on tests with these fun, super-quick daily exercises that provide essential practice in math, reading and writing, social studies, and test taking-and help meet that standards. All it takes is 5 minutes a day! Perfect for starting the day, engaging fast finishers, or reviewing skills.

Business and social letters (Exercises with key)

The thread we spin from, when we weave the business message, is our knowledge of the fundamentals of good writing: grammar, punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and, of course, vocabulary and sentence structure. Just as no chain can be stronger than its weakest link, so also no business letter can be sure of effectiveness, or safe against the risk of making a bad impression, unless the materials it is made from are good in Effective Business Writing. In commerce and industry, there are three kinds of contacts between business firms and their customers-personal contacts, telephone calls, and letters. By far the majority of business contacts are made by letter!