Thursday, June 23, 2011

PDF For Reading techniques for FCE

By: Clare West
publisher: Georgian Press
Date: 1997,
PDF 9 Mb

Reading techniques for FCE for students at Upper intermediate level who wish to improve their general reading skill in English and/or work specifically toward paper 1 of the revised Cambridge Fist Certificate examination (CFE)..

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Thursday, June 16, 2011

The Complete Book of Phonics | PDF

By School Specialty Publishing
Publisher: American Education Publishing
Pages: 352 Date: 2001-12-28
ISBN-10 : 1561892076, PDF 35 mb

The Complete Book of Phonics teaches children in kindergarten to grade 2 key phonics skills that they need to know as they learn to become independent readers. This 352 page workbook contains lessons that involve children in the process of reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

Children also learn to recognize consonant and vowel sounds. Creative activities guide them in the blending of sounds and in exploring familiar sound patterns. Additional literature and helpful suggestions further enhance and cultivate children’s appreciate of reading. This workbook also includes a complete answer key and easy-to-understand directions.


Over 4 million in print! The best-selling Complete Book series offers a full complement of instruction, activities, and information about a single topic or subject area.

Containing over 30 titles and encompassing preschool to grade 8 this series helps children succeed in every subject area!

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Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Reading Remedy: Six Essential Skills That Will Turn Your Child Into a Reader

By Marion Blank
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pages: 352 Date: 2006-01-30
ISBN-10 : 047174204X, PDF 7.4 mb

It’s shocking but true. Forty percent of children experience significant difficulty in learning how to read. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

 In this groundbreaking new book, internationally recognized developmental psychologist and educator Dr. Marion Blank explains why current reading education is failing our children.

She goes on to describe her revolutionary new reading system, Phonics Plus Five, which is based on her forty plus years of experience in teaching children from all backgrounds to read. The Reading Remedy offers step-by-step instructions, reproducible forms, and mini-books that parents can start using right away to implement Dr. Blank’s system.

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Sunday, June 5, 2011

Developing Successful Leadership

By Brent Davies, Mark Brundrett
Publisher: Springer, Pages: 165
Date: 2010-07-29 ISBN-10 : 904819105X
PDF 4 Mb

Research has shown that school leadership is second only to classroom teaching in its effect on pupil learning. As the demands on management teams become ever more complex, this volume offers a fresh and expansive view on the challenges to be met in developing a leadership career.

With contributions from some of the most accomplished commentators on school leadership and management from around the world, this book moves away from the simple ‘how to’ of becoming a principal, focusing instead on the wider issues of becoming a successful leader.

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Dictionary of Languages By Andrew Dalby

By Andrew Dalby
Publisher: A & C Black Publishers Ltd
Pages: 752, Date: 2006-02-20
ISBN-10 : 0713678410, PDF 7 Mb

Approximately how many languages compose the Bantu language group of central and southern Africa? What Western European language is not known to be related to any other language family in the world -- and is considered by linguists to be one of the most difficult to learn? This fascinating and singularly authoritative guide to the social, cultural, and historical foundations of more than four hundred languages and language groups in the world today answers these questions and more.

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Expertise in Second Language Teaching and Learning

By Keith Johnson
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Pages: 288, Date: 2005-10-22
ISBN-10 : 1403920966, PDF 0.7 Mb

Understanding what constitutes expertise in language learning and teaching is important for theoretical reasons related to psycholinguistic, and applied linguistic, inquiry. It also has many significant applications in practice, particularly in relation to the training and practice of language teachers and improvements in students' strategies of learning.

In this volume, methodologies for establishing what constitutes expert practice in language teaching and learning are discussed and the contributions address the fields of listening, reading, writing, speaking and communication strategies, looking at common characteristics of the "expert teacher" and the "expert learner."

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