Literacy category: 816 books
Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish
A Creative and Proven Approach
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012
Learn the basics of the Spanish language with this easy-to-use guide by one of America's most prominent language teachers.
Anyone can read, write, and speak Spanish in only a few short weeks with this unique and proven method, which completely eliminates rote memorization and boring drills....
by Richard Beach, Deborah Appleman, Bob Fecho
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
This popular textbook introduces prospective and practicing English teachers to current methods of teaching literature in middle and high school classrooms. It underscores the value of providing students with a range of different critical approaches and tools for interpreting texts and the need to...
Learn to Sign the Fun Way!
Let Your Fingers Do the Talking with Games, Puzzles, and Activities in American Sign Language
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
The perfect guide to signing for everyone!
Never before has learning to sign been so simple and so much fun! Whether you are a teacher or a parent, this lively self-guided book of American Sign Language (ASL) will quickly become your kids' new favorite teacher!
Learn to Sign the Fun Way goes beyond...
Now Write!
Fiction Writing Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2006
A collection of personal writing exercises and commentary from some of today's best novelists, short story writers, and writing teachers, including Jill McCorkle, Amy Bloom, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Almond, Jayne Anne Phillips, Virgil Suarez, Margot Livesay, and more.
What's the secret behind...
Telling True Stories
A Nonfiction Writers' Guide from the Nieman Foundation at Harvard University
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
Interested in journalism and creative writing and want to write a book? Read inspiring stories and practical advice from America’s most respected journalists.
The country’s most prominent journalists and nonfiction authors gather each year at Harvard’s Nieman Conference on Narrative Journalism....
The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Ultimate Reading List
The Essential Passport to Worlds Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2007
"Great reads for busy people."
This is a guide to help busy people find great reads in fiction and non-fiction. Filled with recommendations of popular, entertaining reading, this book covers mystery and suspense, romance, womenas fiction and chick lit, westerns, science fiction, such...
How to Talk Minnesotan
Revised for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
A revised edition of the hilarious Minnesotan culture guide from a former writer for A Prairie Home Companion
Fans of the Minnesota-set movie Fargo will love this uproarious culture guide to all-things Minnesotan. With his dry wit and distinctive voice, Howard Mohr won millions of fans across...
What Do You Say When . . .
Talking to People with Confidence on Any Social or Business Occasion
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2009
Have you ever walked alone into a room of chattering people and felt nervous? Is the idea of attending a wedding or job interview where you won't know many people intimidating? The art of conversation is a necessary skill for navigating life’s social and business occasions, and with practice you...
Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway
Stories of the Inspiration Behind Great Works of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Every great book begins with an idea, whether it comes to a writer's mind with lightning speed or tugs at the imagination over time. Dancing with Mrs. Dalloway offers stories of the inspiration behind fifty classic works, from The Sound and the Fury, Jane Eyre, and Frankenstein to Anna Karenina, The...
Shakespeare Basics for Grown-Ups
Everything You Need to Know About the Bard
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
An essential guide to Shakespeare, from the international bestselling authors of Homework for Grown-Ups
The Bard was so incredibly prolific that even most Shakespeare scholars would welcome the occasional refresher course, and most of the rest of us haven’t even got a clue as to what a petard...
by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Non-fiction: Matriarchal Storytelling: Storytelling has traditionally been Patriarchal in structure – what is Matriarchal storytelling and why is it the structure whose time has finally come.
The Story Cure
A Book Doctor's Pain-Free Guide to Finishing Your Novel or Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
A collection of cures for writer's block, plotting and characterization issues, and other ailments writers face when completing a novel or memoir, prescribed by the director of creative writing at Ohio University.
People want to write the book they know is inside of them, but they run into...
Tyrannosaurus Lex
The Marvelous Book of Palindromes, Anagrams, and Other Delightful and Outrageous Wordplay
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Welcome to the Weird and Wonderful World of Words!
Tyrannosaurus Lex is your guide to the intriguing world of logology—the pursuit of word puzzles or puzzling words—featuring:
•A wealth of witty anagrams, palindromes, and puns
•Clever paraprosdokians: sentences with surprising endings...
Advice to the Writer
The Writer's Guide to Plot, Revision, and Autobiography: A Digital Pamphlet: Excerpted from The Modern Library's Writer's Workshop
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
From Stephen Koch, former chair of Columbia University’s graduate creative writing program, comes essential and practical advice drawn from The Modern Library Writer’s Workshop.
With nearly thirty years of teaching experience, Stephen Koch has earned a reputation as an astute and benevolent...