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Word Wheels
by Kathryn ClarkTargeting the specific problems learners have with language structure, these multi-sensory exercises appeal to all age groups including adults. Exercises use sight, sound and touch and are also suitable for English as an Additional Lanaguage and Basic Skills students. Word Wheels includes off-the-shelf resources including lesson plans and photocopiable worksheets, an interactive CD with practice exercises, and support material for the busy teacher or non-specialist staff, as well as homework activities.
Word Wisdom: Vocabulary for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing, Level D
by Jerry ZutellNIMAC-sourced textbook
Word Wisdom: Vocabulary for Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing, Level G
by Jerry ZutellNIMAC-sourced textbook
Word Wisdom Unlocking Vocabulary in Context Grade 3
by Zaner-BloserZaner-Bloser Word Wisdom Grade 3 Student Edition
Word Wisdom Unlocking Vocabulary in Context, Grade 6
by Jerry ZutellWord Wisdom Unlocking Vocabulary in Context
Word Wise: Say What You Mean, Deepen Your Connections, and Get to the Point
by Will JelbertSupercharge your speech to get what you want out of every conversation with this fun and practical guide to verbal vividness.An eye-opening guide on how we talk and write to one another, Word Wise explores 400+ of the most common cases of word trash (filler words, hyperbole, and abstractions) and word power (verbs of action, ear candy, onomatopoeia). Examining social media, the language of Donald Trump, AI language research, and heard-on-the-street lingo, communication expert Will Jelbert offers simple and concrete recommendations for improving your own vernacular.With wit, practical applications, and a small dose of grammar, Word Wise will help you communicate more effectively at home, at work, and online.
Wordbirds: An Irreverent Lexicon for the 21st Century
by Liesl Schillinger Elizabeth ZechelIf you've escaped binary confinement and find yourself rushing cell-mell to a clusterfete-- slurpwalking as you commutikaze--then who are you? You are a typical citizen of the young millennium, caught up in the fast-paced megatasking socio-professional whirl of our ever-evolving digitally-enhanced lives. If you've ever wondered what to call it when you answer the TV remote instead of the phone, or wished you had a phrase to capture your supervisor's stealth campaign to stall your career, here is your guide. Now you can say "Oops, droidian slip " with ease, and call out your boss for the impedimentor that he is. Armed with "Wordbirds," you will be able to skillfully talk your way into, or out of, any situation the twenty-first century throws at you. With 150 gorgeous, Audubony, highly expressive bird illustrations, these neologisms will have you crowing with delight, and show you that fine feathers make fine words. Why birds, you may ask? Hadn't you heard? The bird is the word. Now stop deliberotting and open this book.
Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words
by Phil CousineauWho knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book -- it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.
Wordcatcher: An Odyssey into the World of Weird and Wonderful Words
by Phil CousineauBy exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity.
Wordcatcher
by Phil CousineauWho knew that the great country of Canada is named for a mistake? How about "bedswerver," the best Elizabethan insult to hurl at a cheating boyfriend? By exploring the delightful back stories of the 250 words in Wordcatcher, readers are lured by language and entangled in etymologies. Author Phil Cousineau takes us on a tour into the obscure territory of word origins with great erudition and endearing curiosity. The English poet W. H. Auden was once asked to teach a poetry class, and when 200 students applied to study with him, he only had room for 20 of them. When asked how he chose his students, he said he picked the ones who actually loved words. So too, with this book - it takes a special wordcatcher to create a treasure chest of remarkable words and their origins, and any word lover will relish the stories that Cousineau has discovered.
Wordcraft: The Complete Guide to Clear, Powerful Writing (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing)
by Jack HartLegendary writing coach Jack Hart spent twenty-six years at the Oregonian and has taught students and professionals of all stripes, including bloggers, podcasters, and more than one Pulitzer Prize winner. Good writing, he says, has the same basic attributes regardless of genre or medium. Wordcraft shares Hart’s techniques for achieving those attributes in one of the most broadly useful writing books ever written. Originally published in 2006 as A Writer’s Coach, the book has been updated to address the needs of writers well beyond print journalists. Hart breaks the writing process into a series of manageable steps, from idea to polishing. Filled with real-world examples, both good and bad, Wordcraft shows how to bring such characteristics as force, brevity, clarity, rhythm, and color to any kind of writing. Wordcraft now functions as a set with the second edition of Hart’s book Storycraft, on the art of storytelling, also available from Chicago.
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English
by Hana VideenAn entertaining and illuminating collection of weird, wonderful, and downright baffling words from the origins of English—and what they reveal about the lives of the earliest English speakersOld English is the language you think you know until you actually hear or see it. Unlike Shakespearean English or even Chaucer’s Middle English, Old English—the language of Beowulf—defies comprehension by untrained modern readers. Used throughout much of Britain more than a thousand years ago, it is rich with words that haven’t changed (like word), others that are unrecognizable (such as neorxnawang, or paradise), and some that are mystifying even in translation (gafol-fisc, or tax-fish). In this delightful book, Hana Videen gathers a glorious trove of these gems and uses them to illuminate the lives of the earliest English speakers. We discover a world where choking on a bit of bread might prove your guilt, where fiend-ship was as likely as friendship, and where you might grow up to be a laughter-smith.The Wordhord takes readers on a journey through Old English words and customs related to practical daily activities (eating, drinking, learning, working); relationships and entertainment; health and the body, mind, and soul; the natural world (animals, plants, and weather); locations and travel (the source of some of the most evocative words in Old English); mortality, religion, and fate; and the imagination and storytelling. Each chapter ends with its own “wordhord”—a list of its Old English terms, with definitions and pronunciations.Entertaining and enlightening, The Wordhord reveals the magical roots of the language you’re reading right now: you’ll never look at—or speak—English in the same way again.
Wording Robotics: Discourses and Representations on Robotics (Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics #130)
by Jean-Paul Laumond Emmanuelle Danblon Céline PietersRobots challenge humans’ beliefs and expectations. Hence, regardless of whether they are the audience of a conference, the visitors of a lab, the citizens in general, some journalists, or the European Parliament, the first step in order to gain a better understanding of the field of robotics is obviously to consult the experts. Roboticists seem indeed to be in the best position to guide society in this matter, whether it is in the everyday life or within an official institution. Today however, there is a gap between the robots, as they are actually thought and built, and the intelligent and autonomous machines, as they are perceived by the society. How can we explain it? Do the words borrowed from the living organisms and used to describe robots play a role in the confusion about the status of the discipline of robotics? The texts gathered within this book focus on the problematic of wording robotics from various perspectives. They are the results of a unique interdisciplinary meeting gathering roboticists, linguists, philosophers and neuroscientists, the 4th Workshop of Anthropomorphic Motion Factory held at LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse on Nov 31st - Dec 1st 2017.
Wordly Wise 3000: Book 9 (Wordly Wise 3000 Ser.)
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra AdamsIn Wordly Wise 3000 Book 9, each 15-word lesson begins with an alphabetized Word List that gives pronunciations, parts of speech, and concise definitions, and uses each word in a sentence.
Wordly Wise 3000: Systematic Academic Vocabulary Development
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra AdamsWordly Wise 3000: Grade 1, Book 4
Wordly Wise 3000®: Direct Academic Vocabulary Instruction
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra Adams Erika HodkinsonThis book helps learn words directly. The learners are reading the words, learning what they mean, studying them and practicing them as they do the activities. Finally, they might even use them in their own writing or conversations. This book is designed to teach words that the students need to do well in school and will also help them learn more words.
Wordly Wise 3000: Direct Academic Vocabulary Instruction (Fourth Edition) (Medieval Mysteries #3)
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra Adams Erika HodkinsonWordly Wise 3000 can't teach you all the words you'll need, but it will help you learn lots of them. It can also help you learn how to learn even more words.
Wordly Wise 3000 Book 10: Systematic Academic Vocabulary Development
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra Adams<P>Obviously, it's important to know what words mean.<P> Your studies so far in school have proven that time and time again. <P>We might be tempted to skip words we don't know--particularly difficult words--when we see them in textbooks.<P> But this affects how well we understand what we read.
Wordly Wise 3000 Book 3 [Workbook]
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra AdamsWords from literature, textbooks, and the SAT--words most likely to appear on high-stakes tests. Student books include 150 words per level in books 2-3 and 300 new words per level in books 4-12.
Wordly Wise 3000 Book 4
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra Adams Erika Hodkinson<p>You've been learning words since you were a tiny baby. At first, you learned them only by hearing other people talk. Now that you are a reader, you have another way to learn words. Obviously, it's important to know what words mean, but lots of times, we think we can get away without knowing some of them as we read. This could cause a problem. Say you are reading the directions for a new game. You know most of the words in the sentence you're reading. Then you stop for a word you don't recognize: Please do not touch the blegmy or your score will be lost. You ask yourself, "What is a blegmy?" At first you think, "Well, it's only one word." But then you think, "What is it that I'm not supposed to touch?" All of a sudden, knowing what that one word means is important! <p>Clearly, the more words you know, the better your understanding of everything you read. Wordly Wise 3000 will help you learn a lot of words, but it can't teach you all the words you'll ever need. It can, however, help guide your learning of new words on your own.</p>
Wordly Wise 3000 Book 4 [Workbook]
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra AdamsWords from literature, textbooks, and the SAT--words most likely to appear on high-stakes tests. Student books include 150 words per level in books 2-3 and 300 new words per level in books 4-12.
Wordly Wise 3000 Direct Academic Vocabulary Instruction Book 5 (Fourth Edition)
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra Adams Erika HodkinsonWordly Wise 3000, 4th Edition, Book 5 contains 20 lessons with 15 words per lesson and focuses on preparing students to be able to decipher words they'll encounter in content area texts, literature, and tests. Lessons begin with word lists that include definitions with contextual sentences, much like dictionary entries; a selection of activities follow the word list, which may include matching words and definitions, matching synonyms and antonyms, identifying whether words were used correctly in a particular context, sentence completions, reading passages followed by comprehension questions, discussion/writing extension ideas, and other exercises.
Wordly Wise 3000 Direct Academic Vocabulary Instruction Book 6 (Fourth Edition)
by Kenneth Hodkinson Sandra Adams Erika HodkinsonBuild vocabulary along with reading, writing, and critical thinking skills with Wordly Wise 3000! Wordly Wise 3000, 4th Edition, Book 6 contains 20 lessons with 15 words per lesson and focuses on preparing students to be able to decipher words they'll encounter in content area texts, literature, and tests. Lessons begin with word lists that include definitions with contextual sentences, much like dictionary entries; a selection of activities follow the word list, which may include matching words and definitions, matching synonyms and antonyms, identifying whether words were used correctly in a particular context, sentence completions, reading passages followed by comprehension questions, discussion/writing extension ideas, and other exercises .