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Book SynopsisThis book discusses the issues involved and so enables you to make your own informed decision.

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Book SynopsisIn the conclusion to The Keepers trilogy, Nell and her recently discovered twin brother, Owen, vie to be named the next Imperial Wizard before the current Imperial Wizard dies without turning over the scepter to a successor.

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Book SynopsisL.A. Wilding was Senior Classics Master at the Dragon School, Oxford.

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Book SynopsisL.A. Wilding was Senior Classics Master at the Dragon School, Oxford.

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Book SynopsisThis book contains activities for the prime area of Communication and Language and the specific area of Literacy. They will encourage children to speak and listen; to express themselves clearly; and to develop confidence in using language in a variety of situations.

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Book SynopsisThe New Paper Trails is a lively and provocative collection of 24 short-short stories suitable for upper primary and lower secondary students of English. This new edition of the original anthology includes a completely new set of stories, activities and exercises, along a bold and engaging design and illustrations and features work from well-known authors.Table of ContentsForeword; Topsy-turvy; Haunted - Victor Kelleher; The Affair at the Ritz - Carmel Bird; Displaced Persons - Leah Bobet; Discussion and activities; Listen to Your Elders!; Stuck for Words - Michael Panckridge; Jojo Learns to Dance - Meja Mwangi; The Wall - Vivian French; Discussion and activities; Beyond the Grave; The House - Barry Jonsberg; Ghost - Sophie Masson; The White Boat - Kate Constable; Discussion and activities; Monstered; Wet Sand Little Teeth - Mariko Tamaki; The Werewolf - Angela Carter; Endings - Garth Nix; Discussion and activities; Extended Families; Wild Africa - Justin D'Ath; The McGoodys- Joy Cowley; The Performance - Emily Weekes; Discussion and activities; Phobia Phobic; Winston - Gina Dillon; Eight Legs Two Wheels - Carole Wilkinson; D'Arcy - Angela Johnson; Discussion and activities; Strange Attractors; Jack of Hearts - Tim Pegler; The Station - Felicity Albrecht; The Fish - Ilka Tampke; Discussion and activities; Just Desserts; The Runaway Bike - Glen Ewers; My Ending Pose - Madeleine McGlade; The Case for the Defence - Graham Greene; Discussion and activities; Appendix;

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Book SynopsisThis catch-up workbook with targeted support is perfect for boostingthe confidence of your child in the weeks and months before theYear 6 National Tests. With revision and practice sections that focus on the tricky topics,you can be sure that when it comes to the real thing, they'llbe ready for lift off!

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Book SynopsisChallenge confident learners and stretch them to their full potential. This workbook is packed with fun activities to engage high achievers and extend their skills even further.

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Book SynopsisHelp your child make progress with this essential practice and revision title covering key knowledge and skills from the whole school year. Recap all the essential content, then check your skills with easy to use quick tests. Perfect support for the National Tests - in class or at home. Structured revision matched to the curriculum Recaps key English skills Includes activities and skills check questions Ideal preparation for Year 6 National Tests (Please note: content for the SATs Made Simple series has been derived from the Scholastic Maths/English Textbooks series and has been previously published under the Scholastic Revision Guide series.)

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Book SynopsisHelp your child make progress with this essential practice and revisiontitle covering key knowledge and skills from the whole schoolyear. Recap all the essential content, then check your skillswith practice questions and activities.

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Book SynopsisHelp your child make progress with this essential practice and revisiontitle covering key knowledge and skills from the whole schoolyear. Recap all the essential content, then check your skillswith practice questions and activities.

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Trade ReviewThis is an important publication for all working in English language education, not only for those working and researching young learner and teenage learning, but for those involved in reading and in the reading of literature ... Bland writes clearly and intelligently and has productively absorbed and applied a wealth of relevant and recent research ... I am convinced [this book] will become widely cited and known as more relevant readers find it, read it and see the need to recommend the author and the title ... and I would be pleased if this review can contribute to a speedier uptake of the ideas found therein * CLELE Journal *Relevant and accessible ... For me undoubtedly [this book's] strongest point is that every approach advocated is exemplified with engaging texts and tasks. The book is very persuasive in that all its major points are supported by relevant references to credible research ... [A] very impressive and valuable book which I really enjoyed reading. * ELT Journal *This is a comprehensive, innovative and thematically coherent book which provides powerful arguments for engaging with a wide variety of genres within children’s and young adult literature ... A worthwhile contribution to modern EFL teaching methodology -- Maria Eisenmann * Anglistik: International Journal of English Studies *With confident writing on children's literature as a 'highly expressive carrier of cultural meaning', the book contains excellent close readings of many picturebooks and graphic novels ... Packed with good ideas for using selected books as positive resources for literary language learning -- Victoria de Rijke, Middlesex University, UK * IRSCL *Bland’s volume does indeed fulfil her aim of generating a rationale for selecting works of children’s literature for use in EFL classrooms and identifying how certain kinds of literature might empower learners ... I have already added it to my own student teachers’ reading lists. -- Lydia Kokkola, Head of English and Education, Luleå University of Technology, Sweden * International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) *[An] impressive feature of the book is the close segmental reading of diverse examples of children’s literature and graphic novels ... Children’s Literature and Learner Empowerment provides a theoretical and practical approach to providing ELL primary and secondary school learners with the use of authentic and engaging materials. * IATEFL Voices *It is quite natural to expect a book like this from Janice Bland ... Bland communicates her ideas fluently ... and she offers abundant references that are often interwoven with her own thoughts. She manages to construct a clear message that certainly finds its way to the reader ... In this way, student teachers are led in a valuable direction -- Silvija Hanžic Deda * Libri et Liberi journal *Put tersely, Bland’s Children’s Literature and Learner Empowerment is a spirited argument for using original, unabridged children’s and YA literature in the EFL classroom in place of truncated, artificial texts ... [Bland's book] offer[s] insights and arguments that will be valid long after academic capitalism has passed from the scene. No matter where your specific interest in children’s literature lies, these are important books to read. -- Marek Oziewicz, Marguerite Henry Professor of Children’s and Young Adult Fiction, University of Minnesota * The Lion and the Unicorn *This is a comprehensive, innovative, thought-provoking and topical book on children's literature which is equally relevant to scholars working in the field plus to teachers and students of languages and literature. * Werner Delanoy, Professor in the Department of English and American Studies, University of Klagenfurt, Austria *At a time when there is an increasing demand for the effective teaching of EFL and ESL/EAL, this book provides powerful arguments for engaging with a wide variety of genres within children’s and young adult literature and shows how constructing meaning from ‘well-crafted’ texts – including visual and radical texts – can help develop ‘literary literacy’ for children of all ages. Teacher educators will benefit most from the interdisciplinary nature of the book as the author shows how children’s literature scholarship is linked to TEFL theory and practice. However, the result of bringing these two fields together provides exciting new perspectives for all those interested in critical reading and creative writing with children and teenagers. * Evelyn Arizpe, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Glasgow, UK *Janice Bland’s new book is careful, precise and very fully referenced. She makes a compelling case for the need for teachers and other educators to pay more serious attention to the potential offered by children’s picturebooks. Literary and visual experience is shown to lead to engagement and creative thinking in the classroom which graded readers, extracts or non-fictional materials are unlikely to stimulate. Teachers of the ever-growing numbers of young learners of English in particular should pay close attention to this book. It should be on teacher training booklists and on the shelves of all good Education libraries. * Geoff Hall, Professor of English, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements 1. Introduction: The EFL Literature Classroom Part I: Visual Literacy in the EFL Literature Classroom 2. Developing the Mind’s Eye with Picturebooks 3. Bridging a Curricular Gap with Graphic Novels Part II : Literary Literacy in the EFL-Literature Classroom 4. Postmodern Fairy Tales: Co-constructing Meaning 5. The Poetry of Children’s Literature and Creative Writing 6. Children’s Plays: Beyond the Oracy/Literacy Dichotomy Part III: Critical Cultural Literacy in the EFL Literature Classroom 7. Radical Children’s Literature and Engaged Reading 8. Harry Potter and Critical Cultural Literacy Conclusion Bibliography References Index

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Book SynopsisProvide your students with creative yet structured practice in writing narrative, descriptive, how-to, and compare/contrast paragraphs. Resources include: writing forms, graphic organizers, a trait-based writing guide, and more!

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Book SynopsisThe comprehensive vocabulary practice your grade 4 students need for success! Over 150 pages of vocabulary practice covers skills such as synonyms & antonyms, homophones, prefixes & suffixes, word roots, and idioms.

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Book SynopsisGive first grade students strong phonics foundations in just 15 minutes a day! Teacherâs pages have guidance for daily activities that provide Science of Reading aligned systematic phonics instruction and include phonemic awareness, decoding, and word-study skills. Used as a stand-alone resource or with your core program.

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Book SynopsisAn effective way to teach the conventions of standard English grammar and usage! Your eighth graders are both editors and writers, applying grade-level language skills to correct paragraphs and complete a related weekly writing exercise.

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Book SynopsisWith its savage indictment of the horrors of war as they affect women and children on the losing side, Euripides Troades has been one of the most regularly read, performed and adapted of Greek tragedies. It was first produced in 415 BC just after the Athenians slaughter of the male population of Melos and at the point where they were sending out the ambitious Sicilian expedition. It therefore has major contemporary political significance. Like Aeschylus Eumenides, it was performed as the third play in a thematically linked trilogy and, though the other two plays survive only in fragments, important inferences can be drawn about our interpretation of the surviving play and Euripides use of the trilogy form. Lee’s edition, first published in the famous "red Macmillan" series in 1976, is the most recent scholarly edition in English. The detailed commentary discusses text, language, interpretation and metre; there is a full introduction and for this paperback edition there is an additional up-to-date bibliography.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction Contents FIRST PRODUCTION OF THE PLAY - THE TRILOGY- THE TROADES THE TEXT - The Manuscript V - The Manuscript P – Harleianus 5743 (Q) - Hazmiensis 417-Neapolitanus II F 9- Papyri-Indirect Sources - NOTES TO INTRODUCTION TEXT Apparatus Criticus List Of Abbreviations COMMENTARY Notes On Metrical Analyses Addenda Bibliography Bibliographical Postscript Indexes

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Book SynopsisThis book contains the edited text of Virgil's The Eclogues & Georgics, with an introduction to the life and works of Virgil, supplementary chapters discussing differences in the text, and a detailed textual commentary.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1 Life and works of Virgil 2 The Eclogues 3 The Georgics 4 Virgil's hexameter 5 The manuscripts of Virgil's poems and the ancient commentators 6 Differences in text between this edition and those of Hirtzel and Mynors 7 Bibliography TEXT The Eclogues The Georgics COMMENTARY The Eclogues The Georgics Index to the note

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Book SynopsisThe Odes of Horace are the cornerstone of lyric poetry in the Western world. This edition of the Odes was first published in the outstanding ‘red Macmillan’ series, in which it finally replaced the late nineteenth century edition of T.E. Page. Quinn’s edition is designed to meet the need for a modern approach to students in upper school and university. He begins with the assumption that Horace is a major poet, and that the Odes should be recognised and enjoyed as poetry. The commentary provides linguistic aid at the appropriate level but also attempts to reconstruct the thesis upon which each poem rests, and to interpret it as a structural and poetic whole for the attentive and responsive reader.Table of ContentsPreface Introduction 1. Life 2. Works 3. The Odes 4. Syntax and style 5. The history of the Odes 6. Metres 7. Text 8. Bibliography THE ODES COMMENTARY Abbreviations Index

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Book SynopsisThis classic school text book, first published in 1939, contains the essential 1000 commonest Greek words, ideal for students taking GCSE or A-level Greek. It provides an ideal format, comprehensive vocabulary with all the words that a beginning student of ancient Greek will need to know. Its distinctive advantages are that, although alphabetically arranged, many words are set alongside synonyms, autonyms and English derivatives to help with memorisation and vocabulary building. Interrogative, Relative and Demonstrative Adverbs and Pronouns, Prepositions, Particles, Conjunctions and Numerals have been excluded from the main vocabulary and grouped together at the end of the book, where there is also a table of the Principal Parts or Irregular Verbs. For students learning over two years, the commonest words are indicated with an asterisk so they can be mastered in the first year.Table of ContentsVocabulary Adverbs and Pronouns Prepositions Prepositional Phrases Particles Conjunctions Numerals

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Book SynopsisIntroduce your child to reading and writing with our Verbal Skills Workbooks. Through fun activities such as tracing and color-by-letter, our workbooks gradually introduce new concepts. The eye-catching illustrations and captivating content reinforce lessons and help children stay motivated, encouraging them to be lifelong readers and writers.

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