Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction, 2nd Edition

Hundreds of thousands of teachers have used this highly practical guide to help K–12 students enlarge their vocabulary and get involved in noticing, understanding, and using new words. Grounded in research, the book explains how to select words for instruction, introduce their meanings, and create engaging learning activities that promote both word knowledge and reading comprehension. 

 

Mark My Words: Profiles of Punctuation in Modern Literature

Why are Emily Dickinson and Henry James drawn habitually to dashes? What makes James Baldwin such a fan of commas, which William Carlos Williams tends to ignore? And why do that odd couple, the novelist Virginia Woolf and the short story specialist Andre Dubus II, both embrace semicolons, while E. E. Cummings and Nikki Giovanni forego punctuation entirely? More generally, what effect do such nonverbal marks (or their absence) have on an author's encompassing vision?

Farnsworth's Classical English Style

Say it with style―on paper or in person. This book explains why the best writing sounds that way, with hundreds of examples from Lincoln, Churchill, Douglass, and other masters of the language. As Farnsworth says, “Explaining a precept may take just a few words, but only examples can make it familiar to the ear. So we will consider examples from writers and orators who all have lessons to teach.”
Farnsworth shows how small choices about words, sentences, and paragraphs put force into writing and speech that have stood the test of time. What was the secret? Knowledge of choices in the selection of words, the arrangement of sentences, the creation of a cadence.

The Concise Oxford Paravia Italian English Dictionaries (Babylon BGL)

The Concise Paravia Italian Dictionary is the most authoritative and comprehensive Italian-English dictionary. Paravia offers clear and concise definitions for over 175,000 words and phrases and more than 290,000 translations. The extensive vocabulary covers the latest words in a wide range of subject areas, technical and specialized terminology, spoken and colloquial language, idioms, and set phrases. The dictionary also contains detailed examples and advice on grammar and usage.
This is a must have tool for communicating in both English and Italian.

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Don't Believe a Word: The Surprising Truth About Language

Over the past few decades, we have reached new frontiers of linguistic knowledge. Linguists can now explain how and why language changes, describe its structures, and map its activity in the brain. We imagine a word’s origin is it’s “true” meaning, that foreign languages are full of “untranslatable” words, or that grammatical mistakes undermine English. In Don’t Believe A Word, linguist David Shariatmadari takes us on a mind-boggling journey through the science of language, urging us to abandon our prejudices in a bid to uncover the (far more interesting) truth about what we do with words.