Nature study is not just for crunchy granola, back to nature, tree hugger types. You don’t need to strap a two hundred pound backpack onto your aching spine and head off into some Blair Witch project area just to teach your younglings about trees and wildlife. Color field guides are extremely helpful, but you certainly don’t need an advanced degree in botany to teach your child the difference between a morning glory and a daisy.
What are the unique characteristics of sign languages that make them so fascinating? What have recent researchers discovered about them, and what do these findings tell us about human language more generally?
What constitutes "bad" language? Is it slang? Curse words? In this academic volume, Battistella, a professor of English, examines language's relationship to social conditions and constraints and argues for relativism in looking at language. He maintains that hard-nosed, traditional ideas about what is "good" and what is "bad" are open to debate, and that labeling English as either "good" or "bad" is simplistic and unnecessary. Battistella suggests "how we might think more productively about language.
Let’Start! Elementary (A1-A2) A clear choice of vocabulary, including nouns, verbs and adjectives, makes up the basis for learning the words from the themes dealt with in the brief articles, in the games and in the comic strips. Lots of articles about the Anglophone culture, a photographic poster, do-ityourself items and stickers are included.
Did you know that the smallest seahorses are about the size of a quarter? How do seahorses eat without teeth? Get fact-packed answers to these facinating questions in Seahorses! This interactive book looks at everything from the basics of life cycles and body features to fun facts about one of Earth’s most interesting underwater creatures. Reading Level: Grade 1-4
