Building Fluency contains everything teachers need to improve students’ reading fluency, one of five essential reading components identified in Reading First. Transparencies and assessment tools are included. The selections are engaging and humorous.
Building Fluency contains everything teachers need to improve students’ reading fluency, one of five essential reading components identified in Reading First. Transparencies and assessment tools are included. The selections are engaging and humorous.
Taiwan, an island lying less than 100 miles (165 kilometers) off the east coast of the People’s Republic of China, is first noted in Western records has having been “discovered” by the Portuguese in 1590. They named the tobacco-leaf-shaped island “Ilha Formosa,” or “Beautiful Island.” The name that is more common today is Taiwan, thought to mean “terraced bay,” for the active terrace building that has taken place during the past three centuries on the western flanks of the mountains that slope westward toward the Taiwan Strait.
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What word is used to describe a fatty tumor? Why are qualifiers necessary in medical terminology? How does kinesialgia occur? What does "involution" mean? With Quick Medical Terminology: A Self-Teaching Guide, Fourth Edition, you’ll discover the answers to these questions and many more. Using a unique word-building system that begins with a review of Greek and Latin word roots, Shirley Steiner provides the tools necessary for building and sustaining a large working repertoire of medical terms. This new fourth edition helps readers understand the simple logic behind hundreds of seemingly incomprehensible words, featuring new review exercises and up-to-date examples.
This series of four workbooks has been specially designed to provide secondary students with a sound understanding of English vocabulary and ample practice in its use.
Workbooks 1 and 2 focus on the use of such common words as good, fair, fine and nice which either are rather vague in meaning or tend to be overused. Each book contains 25 units, plus 8 review exercises.
Vocabulary Building 1 specially designed to improve the vocabulary and writing skills of students.
This book will sharpen students’ summary-writing skills with
* Reading passages featuring the relevant language points in context
* Detailed study of vocabulary, with example sentences
* Questions to test how much knowledge students have gained from the passages
* Answers are provided
