Language Arts & Disciplines

Rigby Rocket offers a wide range of engaging stories and non-fiction texts. Written by much-loved children's authors, the books have been expertly levelled to ensure your children are able to read them independently.Book InformationISBN...

There have always been tales about people who change their shape to become animals and plants. Shapeshifters is a collection of seven stories from around the world which share the theme of shapeshifting. Captivating versions of some of the best myths...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Shoo...

Taking examples from major European cities, Public Spaces and Urbanity is a practical guide demonstrating what urban development with a human face might look like. This involves renewing and enhancing humane cities using architecture on a human scale...

The new edition of the best-selling six-level Reading Explorer series will bring the world to the classroom like never before through new and updated topics, video, and visuals from National Geographic. Reading Explorer teachers learners to think and...

Rama's Journey is an action-packed retelling of the Ramayana. Prince Rama is sent away from his kingdom into the wild forests and his wife is kidnapped by a ten-headed demon. Rama has lots of courage and determination, but can he rescue her? Captivating...

With each passing day the potential reach of a single false news story-and its ability to negatively impact all of us-grows in both size and scope. Although politicians, activists, and ordinary citizens regularly complain about deceptive or biased news...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597843607Author CommitteePage Count 320Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 996g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739905835Author Irene HillFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Oxford Brookes UniversityPublisher Oxford Brookes University

What are words? Where do words come from? How are they used? Answering these questions and more, this book guides you through the key concepts in the lexicology of modern English. Providing an overview which encompasses all aspects of English...

Writing Systems and Phonetics provides students with a critical understanding of the writing systems of the world. Beginning by exploring the spelling of English, including how it arose and how it works today, the book goes on to address over 60 major...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948134064Author David H HendricksonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Pentucket PublishingPublisher Pentucket PublishingWeight(grams)...

This textbook will help you unlock and access the great potential of corpus linguistics for language learning.It provides step-by-step illustrated examples to help learners, graduate students, and language instructors visualize and understand the...

For anyone who wants to become a more effective writer, a more perceptive reader, and a more precise thinker, an understanding of English sentence structure is indispensable. This book shows you how to begin. Using clear and engaging examples from...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer of Henry James presents here a revision of his Literary Biography expanded with six further essays illuminating what he calls the New Biography-an approach that draws on the resources of psychoanalysis, the...

Language is central to human experience and our understanding of who we are, whether written or unwritten, sung or spoken. But what is language and how do we record it? Where does it reside? Does it exist and evolve within written sources, in...

Novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading! TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains...

This book, designed for students who have already developed a basic competence in Russian, aims to broaden and improve their vocabulary by providing detailed information on groups of Russian words with related meanings. It is invaluable as a guide to...

This is a guide to the various frameworks, concepts, and methods available for the analysis of discourse within linguistics. It compares six dominant approaches to discourse analysis: speech act theory, pragmatics, ethnomethodology, interactional...

Perfect for enjoying in school or at home, Bug Club is proud to present a series of plays to get kids reading, sharing and interacting at KS1. Presented by celebrated children's author Julia Donaldson, each play features engaging stories, beautiful...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131359Author Sandra ScofieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 238gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Biff, Chip and Kipper Stories: Decode and Develop More A are exciting new titles in the Oxford Reading Tree series. The stories continue to provide storylines full of humour and drama, with familiar settings and all your favourite characters with some...

It is now well-established that the long-time economic model on which the news industry has relied is no longer sustainable. Facebook, Google, and declining levels of popular trust in the media have been major contributors to this situation...

When we encounter a news story, why do we accept its version of events? Why do we even recognize it as news? A complicated set of cultural, structural, and technological relationships inform this interaction, and Journalistic Authority provides a...

The Routledge Handbook of Ecolinguistics is the first comprehensive exploration into the field of ecolinguistics, also known as language ecology. Organized into three sections that treat the different topic areas of ecolinguistics, the Handbook begins...

Each Reading Book in the Rapid Plus series is finely levelled and trialled with KS3 students, and includes: all-new content, rigorously levelled and trialled with Key Stage 3 students pre-reading pages which introduce the main characters, plots and key...

To date, the majority of work in language learning psychology has focused on the learner. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to teacher psychology. This volume seeks to redress the imbalance by bringing together various strands of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692850558Author Rebekah LoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Fantasia Hearth PressPublisher Fantasia Hearth PressWeight(grams) 590gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780198380535Author Jenny AcklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 117g

Data Driven Decisions: A Practical Toolkit for Library and Information Professionals is a simple, jargon-free guide to using data for decision making in library services. The book walks readers step-by-step through each stage of implementing, reviewing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781368070973Author Mo WillemsFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint Hyperion Books for ChildrenPublisher HyperionWeight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 216mm...

Most of the time we communicate using language without considering the complex activity we are undertaking, forming words and sentences in a split second. This book introduces the analysis of language structure, combining both description and theory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781884956911Author Peter RubieFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Quill Driver Books, U.S.Publisher Quill Driver Books, U.S.Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. An early and influential book on questions of form in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910375006Author John William ByersFormat PaperbackPage Count 36Imprint Books UlsterPublisher Books UlsterWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

A guide to ebook publishing on a budget which takes the reader gently through every stage of the self-publishing process: from copy editing and proofing to the simplest, most robust, free ebook formatting method and on to sales, social media and...

First published in 1993, this book provides clear illustrations of discourse analytic work and empirical critiques of the traditional psychological approaches. Drawing on a range of examples, the contributors argue that identity, deeply felt emotions,...

The study of how language varies in social context, and how it can be analyzed and accounted for, are the key goals of sociolinguistics. Until now, however, the actual tools and methods have been largely passed on through 'word of mouth', rather than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986134715Author Linda S ClareFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Ubiquitous PressPublisher Ubiquitous PressWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Project X Origins is a ground-breaking guided reading programme for the whole school. Action-packed stories, fascinating non-fiction and comprehensive guided reading support meet the needs of children at every stage of their reading development. Jack...