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What is Dyslexia?: A Book Explaining Dyslexia for Kids and Adults to Use Together
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What is Dyslexia?: A Book Explaining Dyslexia for Kids and Adults to Use Together"What is Dyslexia?" is designed to help adults explain dyslexia to children.The author provides information about all the most common types of dyslexia: trouble with sounds, trouble remembering how letters and words look, trouble finding words, and mixed dyslexia. He deals with the basic facts and adopts a style which is accessible to children without talking down to them. This book includes clear examples which children will be able to understand, as well as activities for parents to do with their children. The author emphasises that everyone has strengths and weaknesses and that having dyslexia is okay.This book will be valuable for parents of children with dyslexia, as well as other adults working with children with dyslexia.
 
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Tags: dyslexia, children, trouble, Dyslexia, words
The Early 21 st Century's Words and Expressions Existing in the English Language but not in Dictionaries ( audios + scripts + lesson plans)
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The Early 21 st Century's Words and Expressions Existing in the English Language but not in Dictionaries ( audios + scripts + lesson plans)The English language is permanently evolving and developing. New words and expressions are coined and existing words change their meaning as society, culture and technology progress.

For example, Phishing. Now, you really have to listen to the spelling of this one. P-H-I-S-H-I-N-G. Not, F-I-S-H-I-N-G. Can be very confusing to hear this word in speech, therefore, you know, 'he's phishing' - what does it mean? No problem in writing, of course.

Wi-fi. W-I-F-I. Sometimes written with a hyphen, sometimes not. Wireless fidelity. Technically, it's a standard ensuring that equipment works on a wireless network. It's on analogy with 'hi-fi', for high fidelity, that used to be common for recording some years ago.

To google - as a verb. ......
 
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Tags: wireless, everybody, broadcasting, words, fidelity, English, equipment, ensuring, works, words
Ace Reader Pro Deluxe Network v5.0.1.6
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Ace Reader Pro Deluxe Network v5.0.1.6The award winning software that is revolutionizing reading proficiency.
Learn to read faster both online and offline.
Improve fluency and comprehension!
AceReader helps you break two major bad habits: (1) Subvocalization (pronouncing the words in your mind while you read), and (2) Re-Reading/Regression (letting your eyes wander back to re-read text).
AceReader paces you to read at higher speeds.

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Tags: wander, reread, letting, ReReadingRegression, words, AceReader, while
An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An Introduction
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An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology: An IntroductionThis work introduces renowned linguistics scholar Anatoly Liberman’s comprehensive dictionary and bibliography of the etymology of English words. The English etymological dictionaries published in the past claim to have solved the mysteries of word origins even when those origins have been widely disputed. An Analytic Dictionary of English Etymology by contrast, discusses all of the existing derivations of English words and proposes the best one.
 
In the inaugural volume, Liberman addresses fifty-five words traditionally dismissed as being of unknown etymology. Some of the entries are among the most commonly used words in English, including man, boy, girl, bird, brain, understand, key, ever, and yet. Others are slang: mooch, nudge, pimp, filch, gawk, and skedaddle. Many, such as beacon, oat, hemlock, ivy, and toad, have existed for centuries, whereas some have appeared more recently, for example, slang, kitty-corner, and Jeep. They are all united by their etymological obscurity.
 
This unique resource book discusses the main problems in the methodology of etymological research and contains indexes of subjects, names, and all of the root words. Each entry is a full-fledged article, shedding light for the first time on the source of some of the most widely disputed word origins in the English language.
 
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Enhancing Academic Vocabulary in IELTS Tests: Words in the News 2008#10
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Enhancing Academic Vocabulary in IELTS Tests: Words in the News 2008#10In academic IELTS,your scores can be greatly improved if a wide range of academic words are covered in the tests. Words in the current news provides you with academic words. Now what you have to do is to listen, read and memorize them.
 
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Tags: academic, words, Words, Academic, Enhancing