Critical Reading Series: Apparitions Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is awesome for anyone wanting to improve a child's reading ability. The stories are not scary. They are presented as investigations of real life hauntings. Ultimately, it is up to the reader to determine the validity of the information presented. Questions follow each story and develop author's approach, recalling facts and key details. Great book from a great series. You won't be dissappointed.

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Motivate students with our best-selling seriesof high-interest selections
This best-selling series motivates students with high-interest selectionsat a higher readability level
Emphasis is on reading nonfiction
Critical thinking questions prepare students for state and national tests
Critical Reading, a perennial favorite for middle school and high schoolstudents of all ability levels, fascinates with astounding and intriguing storiesof real-life adventure. Comprehension questions reinforce literalunderstanding, while critical thinking questions encourage students toconsider the author's purpose, make inferences, identify cause and effect,and make predictions. The entire series is designed to reinforce statereading standards. Theselections in the Critical Readingseries are at the highest level ofreadability in our triple-threatoffering which also includes TheReal Deal and The Wild Side.
Reading Level 6-8
Interest Level 6-12

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Señor Pepino Series: La momia desaparece (Senor Pepino) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a good intermediate learning spanish book. It has vocab on the side of the page, which keeps you away from your spanish-english dictionary, a very good thing. This is part of a trilogy, all of which are comic detective novels with history bytes in the story. A fun read for a third year spanish student, ar second year for a very advanced class.

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A reader for your intermediate and early advanced Spanish studentsLa momia desaparece (Arturo de Rosa) is one of three readers in the Señor Pepino Series. This high-interest reader presents cultural information and extends students' vocabulary in a highly entertaining way. Señor Pepino (a would-be Sherlock Holmes) and his sidekick blunder their way through mystery, adventure, comedy, and romance. This reader is softcover, 6" × 9", and 64 pages in length.

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World Literature, 2nd Edition Student Edition softcover Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent text for use in introductory world literature courses at either the high school or college levels. It offers a wide array of short stories, drama, and poetry by respected authors throughout history and up into the 20th century. Included are ancient pieces such as Akhenaton's "Hymn to the Aton" and Psalm 23 from the Bible, works by modern authors like Alice Walker, and everything in between, including Shakespeare, Tolstoy, Kafka, Dante, Dostoyesvsky, Yeats, Brontë, Wordsworth, Sophocles, Schiller, Ibsen, Colette, Bombal, Hemingway, Poe, Dickinson, and many more. There are 76 pieces in all, categorized by continent / region: the Mediterranean, Continental Europe, Africa, the Far East, Latin America, North America, and Great Britain.
Each piece, usually one of that particular author's best and most famous, is introduced by the editor with information on the author's life, times, and works. There are also accompanying critical questions for each story, play, and poem. I found that these were very useful as jumping-off points for the analysis of a piece, helping to start the critical thinking process. In addition, the editor suggests a few creative writing exercises to go along with each piece. I enjoyed using this book and feel that I gained a lot from it. The pieces are well-selected and give a nice sampling of literature from all geographical regions and time periods, including works in all genres and literary styles. Definitely a recommended text.

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World Literature © 2004 is a superb collection of short stories, poems, and plays from around the globe. This anthology is ideally suited for use as an integral part of the standard high school English curriculum or for a global literature elective. Content and activities provide valuable practice in preparing high school students for college classes or for the Advanced Placement exam. World Literature can also be used in an English-social studies core program that focuses on the study of world cultures, or as the perfect literature supplement to a world history course!

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Buen Viaje Spanish 3, Student Tape Manual Review

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(More customer reviews)I am very disappointed with my copy of Buen Viaje Level 3. It was said to be in acceptable condition, but i feel that the book i received is less than desirable. The cover has been colored on and has a strange feel to it. Once opened, numerous pages are wrinkled and have underlining and highlighting all over. As I continued to leaf through it, I discovered some very innappropriate writting and other strange writing along the margins. This book has clearly been trashed and should not have been labeled as acceptable. It obviously is not!!

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¡Buen viaje! Level 3 meets the needs of all third-year classes by providing a variety of materials in each chapter that can be taught independently.

Glencoe brings you every resource necessary to help your students communicate, understand connections, make comparisons, build communities, and understand cultures.
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Writing Better English : An ESL Workbook Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a great book to help you teach or review proper English writing skills.

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Taking a developmental approach to improving writing skills, Writing Better English helps you increase your level of proficiency in both grammar and vocabulary. The author draws on his extensive teaching experience to provide:
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Tools nonnative English speakers need to become better writers .
A series of exercises and practical-writing activities .
Tests for comprehension of basic grammatical structures, such as verb tenses and pronouns .
A practical section on writing personal and business letters .
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Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama Review

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(More customer reviews)This book not only contains a lot of excellent literature, but it also gives instruction on how to read and analyze literature more effectively. This is a book I come back to again and again.

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This paperback version of Robert DiYanni's Literature: Approaches to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama presents 55 stories; 334 poems; 16 plays and offers the refreshing New Voices of authors who are writing today, in addition to classic works, eight Authors in Context, and an engaging Transformations chapter.

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