20 Hands-On Activities for Learning Idioms (Grades 3-6)
Learning to identify and understand idioms is easy and fun with creative activities your students will love. Complete with step-by-step directions and reproducible templates, these projects are effective ways to help students understand metaphors, find the relationships between language and life experience, and discover the fun of wordplay. Don’t save these for a rainy day! Strike while the iron is hot!
24 Nonfiction Passages for Test Practice Grade 4-5
Boost students’ reading comprehension and critical thinking skills using all kinds of nonfiction. From how-to guides and letters to news stories and advertisements, these high-interest, ready-to-reproduce nonfiction passages and companion questions will give your students the practice they need to understand the information they see and read every day—and succeed on standardized tests.
GED Language Arts, Reading - The four kinds of passages and the four question types - Interpret characters, symbols, images, and figures of speech - Learn to recognize the style and tone of whatever you read - Understand the language of business and technical writing - How to pick the right answers — and avoid those tempting wrong ones.
WordHacker helps you expand the size and level of your English vocabulary! Fair or not, people judge you and your ideas by the words you use. In as little as 15 minutes a day, after a period of leaning vocabulary, you can : Communicate effectively! Impress friends and co-workers! Read text quicker,understand better! Score high on SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL & other tests!!
An accessible introduction to the different theories of the mass media, emphasizing the importance of using theory, not only to make sense of the role of media in society, but also to understand different aspects of mass communication.
