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Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach--A Student Worktext
Don Killgallon , and Jenny Killgallon Manufacturer: Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0325009562 |
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Don and Jenny Killgallon's sentence-composing approach has transformed how writing is taught in thousands of language arts classes, helping students all across America become more proficient, sophisticated writers. Now the Killgallons use their highly effective method for a unique, powerful textbook that links good writing to that perennially difficult-to-teach subject - grammar.
Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach gives your students the chance to absorb and replicate the grammatical structures used by some of the best writers of our times. Included among the over 150 authors, 200 titles, and 400 model sentences in Grammar for Middle School are award-winning young-adult literature such as Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, popular favorites like J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter, and curricular staples such as John Steinbeck's The Red Pony and The Pearl.
Fourteen grammatical structures are developed in the same predictable, understandable manner, using the sentence-composing approach. When students first encounter a tool, it is clearly defined and characterized. Then it's practiced through five activities: matching, unscrambling, combining, imitating, and expanding. Finally, a creative writing activity immerses students in the composition or revision of a paragraph through independent use of the sentence - composing tools they have already learned. Best of all, after each section, review activities - which can be easily graded as unit or final tests - offer opportunities for students to bring it all together and build better sentences.
An accompanies Grammar for Middle School and includes advice, tips, resources, answer keys, and even curricular plans for teachers who are either new to the Killgallon approach or sentence-composing veterans.
No one can forge the link between grammar and writing like Don and Jenny Killgallon. Discover for yourself or rediscover how powerful the sentence - composing approach can be, and watch as your students get grammar like never before - and write better sentences too.
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Sentence Composing for Middle School: A Worktext on Sentence Variety and Maturity
Don Killgallon Manufacturer: Boynton/Cook ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0867094192 |
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With the first edition of his book, Don Killgallon changed the way thousands of high school English teachers and their students look at language, literature, and writing by focusing on the sentence. In this revised edition, Killgallon presents the same proven methodology but offers all-new writing exercises designed specifically for the middle school student.
Unlike traditional grammar books that emphasize the parsing of sentences, this worktext asks students to imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composition process an enjoyable and challenging one. Killgallon teaches subliminally, nontechnically--the ways real writers compose their sentences, the ways students subsequently intuit within their own writing.
Designed to produce sentence maturity and variety, the worktext offers extensive practice in four sentence-manipulating techniques: sentence unscrambling, sentence imitating, sentence combining, and sentence expanding. All of the activities are based on model sentences written by widely respected authors. They are designed to teach students structures they should but seldom use. The rationale is that imitation and practice are as valuable in gaining competence and confidence in written language production as they are in oral language production.
Since the practices have proven successful for the great majority of students who have used them in all kinds of schools, it's demonstrably true that Sentence Composing can work anywhere--in any school, with any student.
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Excellent Resource for teaching Grammar.......2007-09-03
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MS Lang: Sentences (Middle School Language Arts)
Manufacturer: Steck Vaughn ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 073981303X |
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Grammar for Middle School: Ten Pack: A Sentence-Composing Approach--A Student Worktext
Don Killgallon , and Jenny Killgallon Manufacturer: Heinemann ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0325010684 |
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Save 20% when you purchase ten copies: (Discount reflected in price listed above.)
Don and Jenny Killgallon's sentence-composing approach has transformed how writing is taught in thousands of language arts classes, helping students all across America become more proficient, sophisticated writers. Now the Killgallons use their highly effective method for a unique, powerful textbook that links good writing to that perennially difficult-to-teach subject - grammar.
Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach gives your students the chance to absorb and replicate the grammatical structures used by some of the best writers of our times. Included among the over 150 authors, 200 titles, and 400 model sentences in Grammar for Middle School are award-winning young-adult literature such as Cynthia Voigt's Homecoming, popular favorites like J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter, and curricular staples such as John Steinbeck's The Red Pony and The Pearl.
Fourteen grammatical structures are developed in the same predictable, understandable manner, using the sentence-composing approach. When students first encounter a tool, it is clearly defined and characterized. Then it's practiced through five activities: matching, unscrambling, combining, imitating, and expanding. Finally, a creative writing activity immerses students in the composition or revision of a paragraph through independent use of the sentence - composing tools they have already learned. Best of all, after each section, review activities - which can be easily graded as unit or final tests - offer opportunities for students to bring it all together and build better sentences.
An accompanies Grammar for Middle School and includes advice, tips, resources, answer keys, and even curricular plans for teachers who are either new to the Killgallon approach or sentence-composing veterans.
No one can forge the link between grammar and writing like Don and Jenny Killgallon. Discover for yourself or rediscover how powerful the sentence - composing approach can be, and watch as your students get grammar like never before - and write better sentences too.
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Critical steps to effective reading and writing
Zenobia Brown Verner Manufacturer: Dlm Teaching Resources ProductGroup: Book Binding: Unknown Binding ASIN: B00073C8GY |
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Elements of Language - Second Course - ASSESSMENT (Grade 8) (Test Answer Keys)
Manufacturer: Holt, Rinehart and Winston ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000R2TNMC |
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While reading and writing have been topics of instruction for centuries, what and how students read and write have changed dramatically. Students of the 21st century must respond to messages from television, radio, movies and the Internet as well as traditional print resources. That's why Holt, Rinehart and Winston has created Elements of Language. This book contains chapter tests on Communications/Sentences and Paragraphs/Grammar, Usage and Mechanics and Vocabulary Workshop tests.
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Decorating Fabric: Print, Stencil, Paint and Dye Over 100 Fabulous Projects
Susie Stokoe Manufacturer: Lorenz Books ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0754806766 |
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By experimenting with different methods of applying paint to the many types of fabrics available, it is possible to transform the ordinary into individual, hand-crafted objects.
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New Thunderbolts Vol. 1: One Step Forward
Fabian Nicieza , and Tom Grummett Manufacturer: Marvel Comics ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 078511565X |
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From the ashes of the Avengers, a new group of heroes springs forth - all of whom happen to be former villains! New Thunderbolts signals a return to greatness for one of Marvel's longest-running titles of the last decade! But does this new team have the backbone to support the hopes and dreams of an entire city? Guest-starring Spider-Man and Wolverine! Collects New Thunderbolts #1-6.
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Queen Jane's Version, The Holy Bible for Adults Only
Douglas A. Rankin Manufacturer: Dallas Emporia Pr ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items: ASIN: 0966520866 |
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"Queen Jane's Version, The Holy Bible for Adults Only" (QJV) is an outrageous parody, chapter and verse, of the King James Version (KJV). Throughout the text, graphic icons flag the most scandalous scriptures, while contemporary language (including epithets and sexually-explicit slang where appropriate) exposes and holds up for ridicule all the flaws, errors, contradictions, debaucheries, atrocities, obscenities, and absurdities that fill the "original" KJV. Though the QJV is often radical, cynical, sarcastic, blasphemous, and bawdy, the purpose of such an approach is to inspire people to live life for life rather than for death, for reality rather than for mind-crippling myth. Subtlety often makes its humor cunningly deceptive, and its variety of writing styles mirrors the many differences of tone and temperament in the "original". As a whole, it is an iconoclastic, biting, often shocking satire that mocks religious hypocrisy and the gullibility of hard-core believers.Customer Reviews:
What the Bible really says.......2002-12-05
Entertaining to say the least........2000-05-25
This book is definitely not for the faint of heart, given the frankness in language and details that Rankin uses in this version of the Bible (I always wondered what the real story between Noah and Ham was in Genesis 9:20-25... boy, did my Sunday school teacher gloss over that one!) Whether the QJV is an accurate 'translation' of the KVJ or not, I'll leave that determination to the scholars, but the verses I compared while reading through this book seemed dead-on. There is no doubt that Rankin spent a considerable amount of time putting this together, and I have to admit I found it fresh and entertaining, and very funny. Considering the source, that's a massive undertaking. Of course, there is a point to it all, and reading through the QJV one realizes just how disturbing the Bible can be.
To be sure, some individuals won't like this version at all, and instead of reading stories from this version around the campfire, they'll be using it AS the campfire. What a pity.
The Christian Bible . the Naked Truth.......1999-10-12
This book is great.......1999-07-12
How NOT to Persaude Christians to Abandon Christianity.......1999-05-20
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Roger Corman: Blood-Sucking Vampires, Flesh-Eating Cockroaches, and Driller Killers
Beverly Gray Manufacturer: Thunder's Mouth Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 1560255552 |
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Kudos from Creating Characters author Marisa D'Vari.......2005-09-03
Corman Exposed.......2005-08-24
Roger Corman:.......2005-03-20
Driller Killers and Roger Corman, Of Course.......2004-06-08
Gray's biography--fun as it is-- is more than a story about a man who is arguably one of Hollywood's most idiosyncratic moguls. It is a chronicle that parallels that of The Great Depression, World War II, the growth of the film industry and Los Angeles itself. We meet again celebrities we haven't thought about in years like the adorable dimpled Jon Davison, the memorable Vincent Price and even run across pop culture icons like Frank Gorshin.
Occasionally this book is burdened with glitz-town detail that only a dedicated film buff might adore but these moments are rare. Like a super hero, Corman--now 75 and still going--is resilient because he is multi-faceted. The same can be said for screenwriter cum UCLA instructor and journalist Beverly Gray. The two seem admirably paired in that way. Gray uses her many experiences and talents to tell the story of a man of many parts.
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Roger Corman: An Unauthorized Biography.......2003-11-12
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Toru Takemitsu: A Bio-Bibliography (Bio-Bibliographies in Music)
James Siddons Manufacturer: Greenwood Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0313272379 |
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Though often misunderstood in the West, the works of Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996) deserve attention beyond their native land. Although he wrote most of his music for Western instruments in international contemporary concert style, to be played by performers trained in the European musical tradition, lists and scores of his music have been difficult to obtain. Designed for use by musicians, scholars, and program directors who need compact, understandable information on Takemitsu, but who are unfamiliar with Japanese language and music, this bio-bibliography--including sections on his works, performances, films scores, recordings, and writings--will be invaluable to musicians, scholars, journalists, and music directors alike. The annotations of the entries are especially useful in determining answers to such questions as what instruments are needed to perform a piece, what should be said about a film or composition in a program note, what analysis or interpretation of a work is appropriate or has been done before, and what Takemitsu himself has said or written about each work. Siddon's fully cross-referenced volume offers information on approximately 150 compositions, 100 film scores, 250 audio recordings, and 500 bibliographical items, while the biography places the composer's life in the milieu of post-Pacific War Japan and contemporary music in Japan, Europe, and the United States.
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The Music of Toru Takemitsu & Toru Takemitsu: A Rio-Bibliography. (Book Reviews: Music Since 1900).: An article from: Notes
Steven Nuss Manufacturer: Music Library Association, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FFRZ0 Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 1677 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Devious Crosswords to Keep You Sharp (AARP)
Manufacturer: Sterling ProductGroup: Book Binding: Ring-bound Similar Items:
ASIN: 1402718705 |
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Devious Crosswords to Keep You Sharp
Charles Preston Manufacturer: Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: B000MBPDBS |
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Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader
Jossey-Bass Management Series Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787964417 |
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Business Leadership contains the best thinking from the biggest names in leadership on a wide range of subjects including ethics, dealing with change, vision setting, the heroic journey, the practices of leadership, and the work of leadership. With an introduction by James M. Kouzes— coauthor of the million-copy best-seller The Leadership Challenge— the author list of this invaluable resource reads like the who's who of business leadership. This extraordinary collection features chapters from Joseph L. Badaracco Jr., Warren Bennis, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Lee G. Bolman, Larry Bossidy, Richard Boyatzis, Susan Mitchell Bridges, William Bridges, Marcus Buckingham, Ram Charan, Joanne B. Ciulla, Donald O. Clifton, James C. Collins, Terrence E. Deal, Max De Pree, Stephen Drotter, Peter F. Drucker, Daniel Goleman, Robert K. Greenleaf, Victoria A. Guthrie, Gary Hamel, David A. Heenan, Ronald A. Heifetz, Paul Hersey, Frances Hesselbein, John P. Kotter, James M. Kouzes, Donald L. Laurie, Morgan W. McCall Jr., Annie McKee, Burt Nanus, James Noel, James O'Toole, Jerry I. Porras, Barry Z. Posner, Robert E. Quinn, Edgar H. Schein, Gretchen M. Spreitzer, Noel M. Tichy, Ellen Van Velsor, and Margaret J. Wheatley.
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Great Seller.......2007-05-13
all around good resource.......2005-10-02
A comprehensive exploration of leadership.......2003-03-21
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Management Skills: A Jossey-Bass Reader (The Jossey-Bass Business and Management Reader Series)
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0787973416 |
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Management Skills contains the best thinking from the biggest names in business management on a wide range of subjects including leadership, shaping the work environment, change, communicating, hiring and motivating employees, leading teams, and much more. The author list of this invaluable resource reads like a who's who of business management. This extraordinary collection features chapters from Robert R. Albright, David Batstone, Warren Bennis, Lee G. Bolman, Richaurd Camp, David R. Caruso, Terrene E. Deal, Christina A. Douglas, Peter Drucker, Deborah L. Duarte, Michael Finley, J. Davidson Frame, Bill George, T. George Harris, Todd D. Jick, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, James M. Kouzes, Edward E. Lawler III, Patrick Lencioni, Clinton O. Longenecker, David H. Maister, Marick F. Masters, Cynthia D. McCauley, Patrick J. McKenna, Henry Mintzberg, Dana M. Muir, David A. Nadler, Mark B. Nadler, Burt Nanus, Parker J. Palmer, Terry Pearce, Jeffrey Pfeffer, Barry Z. Posner, Robert E. Quinn, Kathleen Kelley Reardon, Harvey Robbins, Peter Salovey, Steven B. Sample, Jack L. Simonetti, Douglas K. Smith, Nancy Tennant Snyder, Barry A. Stein, Robert I. Sutton, and Mary E. Vielhaber.Customer Reviews:
motivating and thoughtful.......2006-07-22
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Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader (The Jossey-Bass Business and Management Reader Series)
Manufacturer: Jossey-Bass ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 0787988197 |
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A newly updated collection of the best leadership thinking from Jossey-Bass
This new edition of Business Leadership is based on a conceptual philosophy--that leadership is not exclusively tied to position in the hierarchy or limited to title and formal authority. Everyone has a responsibility to lead, and leaders need to be dispersed throughout--both up and down--all levels of an organization. The contributions to this revision will provide leaders with sound theory, useful strategies for leading, an appreciation for the power of context, and a strong sense of self as a leader. The book contains contributions from the best minds in leadership including Jim Kouzes, Barry Posner, Warren Bennis, Daniel Goleman, Patrick Lencioni, Ram Charan, and more.
Joan V. Gallos is Professor of Leadership in the Cookingham Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
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