Photographs combine with lively illustrations and engaging, age- appropriate stories in DK Readers, a multilevel reading program guaranteed to capture children's interest while developing their reading skills and general knowledge.
Jake's uncle takes him on a behind-the-scenes tour of a local playhouse, and then it's time for the show!
Added by: arcadius | Karma: 2802.10 | Fiction literature | 20 September 2009
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This is one of several volumes in the HarperCollins Eminent Lives series. Each offers a concise rather than comprehensive, much less definitive biography. However, just as Al Hirschfeld's illustrations of various celebrities capture their defining physical characteristics, the authors of books in this series focus on the defining influences and developments during the lives and careers of their respective subjects. In this instance, Niccolo di Bernardo dei Machiavelli (1469-1527)
The Top-Up Listening series features English as it is actually spoken.
Top-Up gives students practice in drawing meaning from naturally spoken English in two ways: using their knowledge of the world and of the language to guess what's coming next, and using their knowldge of how English is actually structured as a sound.
Whaddaweemean? - how words run together, how sounds are lost, how vowels naturally weaken and entire words are dropped.
Being laid off is a traumatic event. Downsized workers must face decisions about reorganizing their lives and their finances, while grappling with the emotional grief of losing a job. This book is a practical guide to dealing with the tough questions a layoff poses. Using a week-to-week timeline, the book offers advice on such topics as: coping with grief and anger after a downsizing; reorganizing life after a layoff; how to launch a job search; balancing the job search with family and personal time; explaining a layoff to family and friends.
Teachers speaking from their own experience and theorists consider whether the conventional systems for grading individual papers and portfolios support their pedagogies as they shift toward practices that focus on writing as a process. They cover directions and misdirections in grading practices, the power and authority of graders...
