"Best Practices in Writing Instruction is a full compendium of research-based skills and strategies designed with one goal in mind: to promote writing effectiveness in the classroom.
There are many types of listening and speaking activities in the book. Most of the units include word pairs that contrast two sounds. Word pairs are pairs of words, such as night and light, that are the same except for one sound. If your first language does not have one or both of the different sounds in the word pair, practicing the word pairs can help you learn to hear - and produce - the two different sounds.
This instructor's edition of a vocabulary textbook for college students, who read at the fifth to eighth grade level, features 25 chapters and teaches 250 basic words. The first and third chapters in each unit contain word-part practices. The second and fourth chapters in each unit contain synonym-antonym practices. The book's last chapter in each unit contains an analogy practice, review, and test. Also included is an answer key, a section on dictionary use, and a word list.
COVER STORY » Running wheels, mouse huts, nesting material, gnawing objects-most facilities nowadays are embracing enrichment practices for rodents, but, as ALLA KATSNELSON reports, the consensus for what constitutes good practice-or even what constitutes enrichment at all-has remained elusive. Plus, could this added variability in enrichment practices between labs be affecting scientific data?
