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Matching Books and Readers: Helping English Learners in Grades K-6
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Matching Books and Readers: Helping English Learners in Grades K-6

Providing practical guidance and resources, this book helps teachers harness the power of children's literature for developing ELLs' literacy skills and language proficiency. The authors show how carefully selected fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can support students' learning across the curriculum. Criteria and guiding questions are presented for matching books and readers based on text features, literacy and language proficiency, and student background knowledge and interests.s.
 
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Tags: proficiency, language, literacy, books, readers
Solutions Upper-intermediate : Class CDs
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Solutions Upper-intermediate : Class CDsA five-level general English course for 14-19 year-olds, who are also preparing for the school-leaving exam.
The clear structure and step-by-step approach to communication provides supported language and skills training to get students speaking confidently.
 
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Tags: students, training, skills, language, speaking
Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching
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Rules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language TeachingRules, Patterns and Words: Grammar and Lexis in English Language Teaching

Grammar is central to language pedagogy and teachers need a clear description of what constitutes grammar and how it can best be taught in the English language classroom. This book illustrates a new way of describing the grammar of spoken and written English. In an accessible style, the author demonstrates how lexical phrases, frames and patterns provide a link between grammar and vocabulary. He also discusses how the different aspects of the language require different learning processes and different teaching techniques. 
 
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Tags: different, grammar, English, language, Grammar, English, different
Mesopotamia: The World's Earliest Civilization
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Mesopotamia: The World's Earliest CivilizationMesopotamia: The World's Earliest Civilization

Fantastic and massive human-headed, winged bulls and a curious wedge-shaped writing system are the best-known legacies of the place known as Mesopotamia. Although these objects give some sense of the grandeur and mystery of an ancient culture, the influence of the region and its people extends far beyond them. Long described as the “cradle of civilization,” Mesopotamia is clearly one of the earliest civilizations in the world. Its many contributions include the development of written language, as well as several advances in science, economics, law, and religion.
 
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Comprehensive Dictionary of Literature
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Comprehensive Dictionary of LiteratureEnglish literarure denotes those literary texts originating within England proper and written in the English language or its very close relatives (such as Middle or Old English). The term may also denote any literarure composed primarily in the English language, though in other countries.

This dictionary is an alphabetical collection of the various terms and phrases that are related to English literature.

 
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Tags: English, language, literarure, collection, alphabetical