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This books tells us surprising and startling facts about electricity. Find out just how shocking an electric shock can be, and why Benjamin Franklin flew a kite into a thundercloud! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your...

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. ...

The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351049139, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This volume offers an exhaustive look at the...

This textbook introduces the fundamental concepts and methods of corpus linguistics for students approaching this topic for the first time, putting specific emphasis on the enormous linguistic diversity represented by approximately 7,000 human languages...

There are six titles at Level 1: Fun at School explores sounds you might hear at school - in the playground, in the classroom, at lunch-time and at home-time. Kipper and friends go to school on a snowy day and have lots of fun acting out Goldilocks and...

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. In...

"The most consistent of all series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story." David R. Hill, Director of the Edinburgh Project on Extensive Reading.You're fast asleep, and nothing is happening. Or is it?Book...

The Age of Translation is the first English translation of Antoine Berman's commentary on Walter Benjamin's seminal essay 'The Task of the Translator'. Chantal Wright's translation includes an introduction which positions the text in relation to current...

Futabatei Shimei (1864-1909) is widely regarded as the founder of the modern Japanese novel. His novel Floating Clouds (1887-1889) was written in a colloquial narrative style that was unprecedented in Japanese literature, as was its negative hero...

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...

Anna, Bella and Jo are having a party to celebrate Friends' Day. Anna doesn't know what to buy her two friends, but then sees some necklaces which she really likes. When the mermaids open their presents they find that each of them has got necklaces for...

Computers play a crucial and rapidly evolving role in education, particularly in the area of language learning. Far from being a tool mimicking a textbook or teacher, Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) has the power to transform language...

Nelson Phonics Handwriting and Spelling is a supplementary series aimed at Reception and Key Stage 1. It provides lesson guidance and activities for the key skills of handwriting and spelling using the phonics sequence supplied by DfES Letters and Sounds...

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 shows festivals from around the world. It focuses on fun with racing cheeses, throwing tomatoes and playing in mud! Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable...

Text and image are used together in an increasingly flexible fashion and many disciplines and areas of study are now attempting to understand how these combinations work.This introductory textbook explores and analyses the various approaches to...

Douglas Robinson offers the most comprehensive collection of translation theory readings available to date, from the Histories of Herodotus in the mid-fifth century before our era to the end of the nineteenth century. The result is a startling panoply of...

Motivation is a vital element in learning, and the most commonly cited explanation for success or failure in language learning. Jill Hadfield and Zoltan Doernyei present a new theory of motivation centred around the notion of the "~Ideal Future Language...

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. ...

Language in Children provides a concise and basic introduction for students studying child language acquisition for the first time. Starting from the first sounds a child produces, this book covers all the stages a child goes through in acquiring a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780764143168Author Vincent F. HopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Barron's Educational Series Inc.,U.S.Publisher Peterson's Guides,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Ragbag loves rubbish but the other Eco Apes aren't so keen. Ragbag teaches Bob and Dot that recycling rubbish can be fun when he shows them how to turn some everyday items of rubbish into some of their favourite things - a ship, a rocket and a hat. Part...

A pack of four stories in a series which provides a reading programme for Key Stages 1 and 2, aiming to combine enjoyable, motivating stories with a carefully developed and consistent progression.Book InformationISBN 9780435092603Author Tony...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999338445Author Susan MeierFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Linda Susan MeierPublisher Linda Susan MeierWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Writing matters: it plays a key role in the circulation of ideas in society and has a direct impact on the development of democracy. But only a few get to do the kind of writing that most influence this development.The Politics of Writing examines...

First Friends makes children's first year of learning English motivating and fun. A regular unit cycle and engaging support resources help you create a positive learning environment where children can develop confidence, build vocabulary skills, and...

The Loverscollects Head's short fiction of the 1960s and 70s, written mainly in Serowe, Botswana, and depicting the lives and loves of African village people pre- and post-independence. An earlier selection called Tales of Tenderness and Power was...

Jake wishes he was as good at playing Space Explorers as his big brother Sam. Then one day Jake ends up inside the game, collecting rocks and dodging aliens! It's brilliant fun until he discovers that Sam is trapped inside the game, and needs his help...

By arranging frequently used characters under the phonetic element they have in common, rather than only under their radical, the Dictionary encourages the student to link characters according to their phonetic. The system of cross-referencing then...

The Star Fruit Tree and other stories contains four fruity tales all about how irresistible fruit is, even when you know you shouldn't take it! Captivating versions of some of the best myths and legends from around the world. TreeTops Myths and Legends...

A Social History of English is the first history of the English language to utilize the techniques, insights and concerns of sociolinguistics. Written in a non-technical way, it takes into account standardization, pidginization, bi- and multilingualism,...

Andrew Radford's textbook is written for students with little or no background in syntax, and introduces them to key concepts of Chomsky's minimalist programme (e.g. merger and movement, checking, economy and greed, split VPs, agreement projections), as...

Suitable for children age 7 and above with a reading age of 5 years to 5 years 6 months Part of the Rapid Reading intervention series by Pearson Rapid Stage: Starter Level 1B (equivalent to blue book band) Design supports readers with dyslexia Proven to...

Suitable for children age 7 and above with a reading age of 5 years to 5 years 6 months Part of the Rapid Reading intervention series by Pearson Rapid Stage: Starter Level 1B (equivalent to blue book band) Design supports readers with dyslexia Proven to...

This clear and accessible text provides a complete introduction to basic linguistic terms and descriptions of language structures. The German Language Today describes in detail the main liguistic features of the language and the wide variety of speech...

Translation Studies and linguistics have been going through a love -hate relationship since the 1950s. This book assesses both sides of the relationship, tracing the very real contributions that linguists have made to translation studies and at the same...

The Routledge Applied Linguistics Reader is an essential collection of readings for students of Applied Linguistics. Divided into five sections: Language Teaching and Learning, Second Language Acquisition, Applied Linguistics, Identity and Power and...

First published in 1980 and now reissued for the first time as a Routledge Linguistics Classic, Language - The Loaded Weapon is at once an introduction to and a critique of everything we know, or think we know, about language. This classic text explains...

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. In...

These books are designed for an adult and child to share and can be used with children before they start formally to learn to read, or with beginning readers to broaden their vocabulary and give them confidence with sounds and words. Featuring the...