Harcourt Decodable Books are eleven-page, sound-controlled books that gradually increase in difficulty, reviewing phonic elements as they incorporate new skills. Designed for students in Kindergarten, these carefully sequenced books effectively supplement any comprehensive reading or phonics program. A blend of fiction and non-fiction, these vibrant and colorful books will engage beginning readers. High-frequency words and decodable words are listed on the inside back cover.
Advanced Unsaturated Soil Mechanics and Engineering
Analytical and comprehensive, this state-of-the-art book, examines the mechanics and engineering of unsaturated soils, as well as explaining the laboratory and field testing and research that are the logical basis of this modern approach to safe construction in these hazardous geomaterials putting them into a logical framework for civil engineering and design.
Talk, Thinking and Philosophy in the Primary Classroom
Talk, thinking and philosophy are crucial components of children’s learning. This book is a practical and readable guide to the ways in which teachers can provide children with the opportunities to develop and use these skills to their greatest effect.
Reading for IELTS is divided into 12 units. Each unit focuses on a topic area that you are likely to meet in the IELTS exam. This helps you to build up a bank of vocabulary and ideas related to a variety of the topics. As in the IELTS test, the texts are taken from authentic sources. These may contain narratives, logical arguments, descriptions or discussions. Some of texts contain visuals.
Deep rivers, tall trees, strange animals, beautiful flowers - this is the rainforest. Burning trees, thick smoke, new roads and cities, dead animals, people without homes - this is the rainforest too. To some people the rainforests mean beautiful places that you can visit; to others they mean trees that they can cut down and sell. Between 1950 and 2000 half of the world's rainforests disappeared. While you read these words, somewhere in the world people are cutting down rainforest trees. What are these wonderful places that we call rainforests - and is it too late to save them?
