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Enhance your critical reading skills in just 20 short lessons. Learn to dissect a story, find the main idea, and draw conclusions through study of practical exercises. With passages from literature, essays, technical writing, and articles, this handy guide includes lessons with hundreds of exercises in test format to help you acquire or refresh essential reading comprehension skills.
2) Work & Business Success Accelerated Learning Mastery: Learn Powerful Accelerated Learning Techniq
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If you want to discover how to accelerate your learning process today to help you learn and remember more and achieve results, keep reading...
Have you ever tried learning any new skill or topic -
- while studying
- at work
- in business
... and finding it a challenge not getting the positive results you desire?
Have you always wanted to -
- know what is Accelerated Learning?
- learn how does Accelerated Learning work?
- discover what are the...
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A pesar de que la lectura estética y las artes han sido relegadas a un lugar periférico por ser consideradas como recreativas, muchos estudios han comprobado que recurrir a éstas atrae muchos beneficios que repercuten en el desempeño académico del lector, pues permite que desarrolle muchas habilidades que se transforman en aprendizaje. En este libro, se reúnen muchos testimonios de distintos autores sobre cómo es que la lectura se puede realizar...
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El ejercicio de la lectura abre muchas puertas. Ya sea la de la información, de la libertad de pensamiento o de la recreación. Aquí se reúnen lecturas y ejercicios para desarrollar dos grandes habilidades: leer en voz alta para desarrollar habilidades de oratoria y declamatoria, y la lectura en silencio, para aumentar la comprensión lectora, la inferencia y la capacidad de interpretación. Diversas técnicas ayudarán al lector, ya sea de forma...
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Do you tell your dog to lay down or lie down? How do you respond to the question of "How are you?" Do you say good or well?
If these questions confuse you, imagine how tough it is for your kids. Don't worry about it anymore. Let Queen Shinobi teach them the proper way. She's been around a long, long time and she knows her stuff.
So invest a few bucks in your child's learning and let Queen Shinobi show them how to do it.
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This is not your typical tourist phrasebook. It contains over 75 categories of terms in Igbo and English with over 4,000 terms, phrases and sample sentences. Also included is a guide to the Igbo alphabet and pronunciation. “The English / Igbo Phrasebook” is designed to be used by the English speaker to learn the basics of the Igbo language or for a Igbo speaker to learn the basics of English. If you are intending to learn any new language, you'll...
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Contrario a lo que se suele pensar, el diálogono solo está asociado con conversaciones cotidianas, sino que también está presente de manera particular en la escritura académica; así mismo, la voz en los textos escritos responde a unas prácticas o acuerdos tácitos de los géneros universitarios que no siempre coinciden con la voz oral o escrita en contextoscotidianos. Este libro plantea algunas respuestas desde dos procesos que se relacionan...
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Este es el primer libro de la colección Literacidad y pedagogía y está dirigido principalmente a maestros de primaria y secundaria, ofrece orientaciones educativas y estrategias lúdicas para propiciar el apego y el compromiso de los alumnos con la lectura por placer y con la escritura creativa dentro de la cotidianidad de las aulas. Pretende también impulsar el desarrollo de la literacidad entre niñas y niños a fin de potenciarlos como...
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El libro es el resultado la investigación realizada entre el 2005 y el 2007 en un curso de composición de la Licenciatura en Lenguas Extranjeras de la Escuela de ciencias del Lenguaje. El texto comienza analizando la problemática de la escritura en la universidad como ejercicio epistémico, hace un recorrido por las teorías y los autores que se vienen ocupando del tema, analiza la problemática y propone soluciones. Luego, centra su contenido...
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Reconnecting Reading and Writing explores the ways in which reading can and should have a strong role in the teaching of writing in college. Reconnecting Reading and Writing draws on broad perspectives from history and international work to show how and why reading should be reunited with writing in college and high school classrooms. It presents an overview of relevant research on reading and how it can best be used to support and enhance writing...
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Do you remember your first visit to where the wild things are? How about curling up for hours on end to discover the secret of the Philosopher’s Stone? Combining clear, practical advice with inspiration, wisdom, tips, and curated reading lists, How to Raise a Reader, from the authors of the original and viral New York Times Books feature, shows you how to instil the joy and time-stopping pleasure of reading. Divided into four sections, from baby...
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Creative Learning Services, Inc. has taught reading and concentration skills at hundreds of institutions including schools, colleges, business firms and government agencies. We feel that our reading program is the most practical and comprehensive course in the field. Now, we have packaged our step by step instruction format in this beautiful, easy to follow, guidebook. It will allow you to practice and progress at your own pace and convenience.
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Specifically designed to help parents support their children's work at home, and concise and accessible so both parent and child can follow the principles easily and at their own pace, this book provides in-depth coverage of the essential English topics for school children aged 11-14. With a simple attractive layout, the books provide a comprehensive examination of each topic and a wealth of exercises to test the reader's understanding. The bestselling...
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Este libro es una apología de la lectura y una alabanza del lector.
A diferencia de otros adictos –léase: coleccionistas, escritores, bibliotecarios–, quien se define como «lector» es una persona distinta de aquella que colecciona, escribe o trabaja con libros… incluso si ambas comparten un mismo rostro en el carnet de identidad.
Las autoras y los autores de los textos que reunimos en estas páginas fueron muchas cosas a lo largo de sus...
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Find concrete ways to support unwilling, unengaged, or struggling readers! This professional resource includes easy-to-implement classroom strategies and activities to help teachers reach reluctant readers. Have your students mastered the art of avoiding reading? Written by English teacher and literacy expert Heidi Crumrine, 50 Strategies for Reluctant Readers gives educators ideas for structuring reading instruction for students who don't like to...
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A major addition to the literature of poetry, Edward Hirsch's sparkling new work is a compilation of forms, devices, groups, movements, isms, aesthetics, rhetorical terms, and folklore-a book that all readers, writers, teachers, and students of poetry will return to over and over.
Hirsch has delved deeply into the poetic traditions of the world, returning with an inclusive, international compendium. Moving gracefully from the bards of ancient...
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Practicing Letter Sounds Have Never Been This Much Fun!
Meet the Letter Sounds Easy Reader Stories feature all of the adorable characters that children know and love from our award winning Meet the Phonics—Letter Sounds video.
With 26 easy reader stories, children can practice the different sounds that each letter makes. The stories are short, fun to read, and contain basic 3 and 4 letter words. Preschool Prep Series™ products have won hundreds...
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Practicing Blends Have Never Been This Much Fun!
Two letters that come together and keep their own sounds are taught in primary schools as “letter blends.” Meet the Blends video makes learning to identify letter blends fun and easy! Now children can practice what they have learned with Meet the Blends Easy Reader Stories. There are 20 stories in all. Preschool Prep Series™ products have won hundreds of awards and are used in millions of homes...
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Cherokee is a Southern Iroquoian language now spoken by around 22,500 people in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. In 2005, the Cherokee Preservation Foundation funded a survey whose results indicated that only 460 fluent speakers were then living in Eastern Cherokee communities, with 72 percent of them over the age of 50 and elder speakers dying far more quickly than new speakers were emerging. By 2015 that number was down to 215. The process...