Provides more than 1,100 hand-printed, high-frequency words appropriate for intermediate students. Extra pages with blank lines are included to support a growing vocabulary.

Lists almost 500 high-interest, high-frequency words in large, hand-printed manuscript and provides space to add new words to help students improve their spelling, alphabetizing, reading, and writing. A 10-page back section includes pages for color words, number words, days of the week, months of the year, contractions, classmates and friends, family members, and pets. For grades 1-2.

George Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. In Why I Write, the first in the Orwell’s Essays series, Orwell describes his journey to becoming a writer, and his movement from writing poems to short stories to the essays, fiction and non-fiction we remember him for. He also discusses what he sees as the ‘four great motives for writing’ – ‘sheer egoism’, ‘aesthetic enthusiasm’, ‘historical impulse’ and ‘political purpose’ – and considers the importance of keeping these in balance. Why I Write is a unique opportunity to look into Orwell’s mind, and it grants the reader an entirely different vantage point from which to consider the rest of the great writer’s oeuvre. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times

A precursor to Words I Use, provides alphabetized lists of age-appropriate words with accompanying drawings plus blank lines and picture boxes on facing pages. Spanish versions available.

A structured approach to creative writing, Just Write guides students through the writing process from initial idea to final edited and published narrative. Models are provided and students are encouraged to be creative.

Boost students' reading confidence and comprehension with interactive mini-books that give emergent readers the support they need to take on sight words! All 25 cloze-style stories in this collection feature predictable text and engaging illustrations -- and give children lots of practice reading and writing high-frequency words within simple, easy-to-complete sentences. Includes reproducible mini-books and word cards, plus skill-building extension activities. Book jacket.

Presents initial and final vowel and consonant combinations and word roots for beginning spellers and those with learning difficulties such as dyslexia.

The creator of the popular webcomic "xkcd" uses line drawings and common words to provide simple explanations for how things work, including microwaves, bridges, tectonic plates, the solar system, the periodic table, helicopters, and other essential concepts.

Contains 1,020 high-use writing words.

THE definitive phonics book for teachers. Comprehensive information is given here for every spelling of every sound. For each spelling you find rules which govern it, exceptions to the rules, sample words to use for teaching the sound or spelling, etymological information, and more. Each sound is keyed to the Phonics Made Plain cards and chart. The Appendix also contains an excellent article concerning reading problems of the older student or adult.