Download or read book The Kingfisher Children s Illustrated Dictionary and Thesaurus written by George Marshall and published by Kingfisher. This book was released on 2011-07-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun and easy to use, The Kingfisher Children's Illustrated Dictionary and Thesaurus by George Marshall is the ideal choice for upper elementary and middle-school children who are beginning to expand their vocabulary. Comprehensive and authoritative, it defines more than 4,000 words with clear, age-appropriate entries, and also includes a thesaurus with more than 5,000 headwords. Plenty of sample sentences offer further clarification, while the intuitive pronunciation guides make difficult words easy to say. Hundreds of bright photographs and illustrations contribute extra vocabulary information and make this book a verbal and visual treasure trove. Special features include •Full-color, high-interest topic boxes provide an in-depth look at selected subjects and related vocabulary •Color-coded guide words and alphabet strings on page edges that make words easy to look up •Vocabulary panels •Definitions clearly identifying parts of speech, different word forms, and alternate spellings •Information about synonyms, antonyms, and key language topics
Download or read book The Kingfisher Children s Illustrated Dictionary and Thesaurus written by George Marshall and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-07-10 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated dictionary, including plurals, parts of speech, and definitions, plus a thesaurus of synonyms and antonyms.
Download or read book The Kingfisher Children s Illustrated Thesaurus written by John Grisewood and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Including 4,000 alphabetical headwords with synonyms and antonyms, this illustrated thesaurus has feature pages, colour artwork and language help including spelling tips and word families.'
Download or read book The Kingfisher Children s Illustrated Dictionary and Thesaurus written by George Marshall and published by Kingfisher. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fun and accessible, this comprehensive guide helps students expand their vocabulary and develop their reference skills. Featuring more than 4000 dictionary entries and 5000 thesaurus words, each with concise and easy-to-follow defintions. Hundreds of colorful illustrations and photographs provide even more information and reinforce meaning.
Download or read book Reference Skills for the School Librarian written by Ann Marlow Riedling Ph.D. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-10-21 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for courses that prepare LIS students for school librarianship, this title teaches basic reference processes, sources, services, and skills and provides authentic school library reference scenarios and exercises. This fourth edition of Reference Skills for the School Librarian: Tools and Tips acknowledges the vital importance of reference skills in school libraries. It focuses on new reference skills for school librarians and includes more online materials such as Webliographies and a glossary. Teaching reference skills and providing reference services to students and staff in schools are extremely important tasks and are required of librarians on a regular basis. Aimed at pre-service and in-service school librarians, this book covers all types of reference materials including almanacs, dictionaries, encyclopedias, atlases, and other standard information sources, giving extra emphasis to the online sources to which students increasingly turn. This edition addresses more online reference resources than previous editions and offers practical suggestions for use in K–12 student instruction.
Download or read book The Kingfisher Children s Illustrated Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Spelling written by Olivia O'Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do children learn to spell and what kinds of teaching support them most effectively? Based on a three-year longitudinal study of children's spelling in different primary classrooms, Olivia O'Sullivan, Assistant Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education and Anne Thomas, the former Inset Director of the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education, pose a number of important questions: what kinds of knowledge are involved in spelling? what are the links between learning to read and learning to spell? what kinds of systematic teaching and interventions make a difference to children's progress? Packed with case studies, photographs and examples of children’s work, this unique book sets out the most effective approaches to spelling and provides teachers with a broad set of principles on which to base their teaching. This is an invaluable resource for any teacher or trainee teacher wishing to raise standards in spelling in their classroom.
Download or read book The Kingfisher Illustrated Thesaurus written by George Beal and published by Kingfisher. This book was released on 1996-04-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingfisher Illustrated Thesaurus by George Beal features over 5,000 headwords, listed along with their synonyms, homonyms, and antonyms, the book enables older children to enrich and expand their vocabulary. Sample sentences and thematic word listings provide invaluable information about the nuances of language and usage.
Download or read book Children s Illustrated Thesaurus written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never be lost for words with this perfect reference book for young readers and writers. With more than four thousand words, Children's Illustrated Thesaurus has everything a child needs to develop their vocabulary. Each entry in the book is supported by a definition and used in a sentence as an example to explain their usage to young readers. This comprehensive book shows a range of synonyms to provide extra words that can be used during writing, from types of emotion to weather phenomenon. Colorful images and supporting illustrations place every word in context and help you better understand its meaning. With its fresh and fun design, the Children's Illustrated Thesaurus will inspire children to build a rich and vibrant vocabulary and help boost their confidence when they begin their next writing project.
Download or read book The Kingfisher Children s Illustrated Dictionary written by John Grisewood and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines an up-to-date dictionary with a carefully compiled encyclopedia of essential information for the young reader. It provides extensive of the language of today, particularly in science, technology and computing.'
Download or read book Reference and Information Services written by Kay Ann Cassell and published by American Library Association. This book was released on 2013 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Search skills of today bear little resemblance to searches through print publications. Reference service has become much more complex than in the past, and is in a constant state of flux. Learning the skill sets of a worthy reference librarian can be challenging, unending, rewarding, and-- yes, fun.
Download or read book Children s Books in Print 2007 written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reference and Information Sources and Services for Children and Young Adults written by Lesley S.J. Farmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reference and information services are more important than ever for today’s young people. By analyzing key features of reference and information services to young people in school and public library environments, including the research behind the trends and issues, librarians can make sure that those services are appropriately responsive to children and teens. Based on standards and evidence-based practice, this book helps you to optimize those resources and services by: providing guidance in assessing youth communities, determining youth’s information needs and information behaviors, developing and maintaining age-appropriate reference collections (starting with the book’s core list of print and online resources), optimizing physical and virtual access to reference and information sources, interacting with youth and facilitating their reference and information literacy skills, curating and producing reference and information products, dealing with relevant legal and ethical issues, and planning effective library reference and information services for youth. Chapter sidebar examples provide food for thought.
Download or read book Reading Writing Connections written by Mary F. Heller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1999-04 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading-Writing Connections: From Theory to Practice is an extraordinary language arts methods text that enables elementary and middle school teachers to create classroom environments where all students can become lifelong readers and writers. Focusing on developmentally appropriate methods and materials, this remarkably readable book empowers a new generation of teachers to integrate reading, writing, listening, and speaking in K-8 classrooms. Heller's highly accessible writing style makes this book suitable as a primary text for undergraduate and graduate courses in language arts, reading, writing, and literacy. Special features of this second edition include: * a vision of how to transform cutting-edge theory and research into classroom practice that utilizes integrated language arts instruction; *a unique developmental perspective with separate chapters on teaching methods and materials for kindergarten, primary (1-3), intermediate (4-6), and middle grades (7-8); * instructional guidelines that offer generous, detailed suggestions for applying theory to practice, plus "For You to Try" and "For Your Journal" exercises that encourage critical thinking and reflection; and * a wealth of classroom vignettes, examples of students' oral and written language, illustrations, and figures that accentuate interesting and informative theory, research, and practice. In addition, Reading-Writing Connections offers expanded content on the impact of sociocultural theory and the whole language movement on the teaching of reading and writing across the curriculum; greater emphasis on cultural diversity, including new multicultural children's literature booklists that complement the general children's literature bibliographies; and current information on alternative assessment, emerging technologies, the multiage classroom, reader response to literature, and thematic teaching.
Download or read book The Kingfisher Junior Illustrated Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Illustrated Dictionary written by John Grisewood and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Children s Book Review Index written by Gary C. Tarbert and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
