This book gives beginning students immediate help in mastering the essential elements of English pronunciation. Like its higher-level counterpart, Clear Speech, this new text concentrates on topics, such as rhythm, intonation, and sounds as grammar cues, that will make the biggest difference in students' ability to understand and communicate with others

Clear Speech is a revised and expanded version of the highly successful and innovative pronunciation text for intermediate and high intermediate students. This book provides theotetical support, teaching suggestions, audio scripts, and answer keys for each unit. It also includes 15 unit quizzes on photocopiable pages

American Ways focuses on the traditional values that have attracted people to the United States for well over 200 years and traces the effect of these values on American life. Chapter themes include diversity, the family, education, government and politics, religion, business, and recreation

Author offers a fresh perspective, innovative strategies, and practical guidelines for the literacy development of young children in multilingual and multicultural settings. Presenting effective, research-based ways for early childhood and elementary teachers to develop a sound and lasting apprecation for, and love of, literature ammong their students

The reader will enjoy watching Tree-ear work patiently toward his goal of becoming a potter, but perhaps more importantly, will see him learn the importance of sacrifice. The wise and fatherly Crane-man helps him learn how to become a respectable man and teaches him to be kind and charitable. Potter Min is crusty and curt, but his gentle wife is the epitome of soft kindness. In the end, even curmudgeonly Min is won over by the brave and loyal Tree-ear. Although the book is set in 12th century Korea, it does not feel like an ancient story. This book will be enjoyed by all

Tuck Everlasting is a fantasy children's novel by Natalie Babbitt. The book explores the concept of immortality and the reasons why it might not be as desirable as it appears to be

The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963

When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs

Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. And there's no delete button. Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time

When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control