communication

The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.

Provides examples of children who speak well and use proper language, and features a brief story about a girl who speaks up and uses good listening skills while at a family gathering.

Situations taken from daily life demonstrate the usefulness and pleasure of writing.

Great Jobs for Communications Majors helps students explore career options within their field of study. From assessing individual talents and skills to taking the necessary steps to land a job, every aspect of identifying and getting started in a career in communications is covered. Readers learn to explore their options, target an ideal career, present a major as an asset to a job, perfect a job search, and follow through and get results.

Demonstrates simple strategies and techniques designed to help mothers and daughters communicate better about sensitive topics.

Traces, in text and illustrations, the development of communication from early cave drawings through the use of satellites and computers.

Describes the progress of communication from smoke signals used by early cultures to email and the Internet.

Details the many forms of transportation, communication, and travel in the world today.

Explores the variety of ways in which humans communicate, including flags and fires, speech and writing, and through use of electronic media such as television and the internet.

Explores communication from spoken and written language, through signs, signals, and pictures, to modern electronic communications.