english language

Presents potato-print illustrations for wildflowers for every letter of the alphabet, with all sorts of information about each flower.

A guide to preparing for the English literature and composition exam for advanced placement, featuring topic reviews, a glossary of key terms, and two full-length practice exams with explained answers.

Contains 4,000 entries and 36,000 synonyms with examples showing typical usage for every sense of each entry.

Provides three hundred strategies for improving the writing skills of students and includes suggestions for stocking a writing center planning units, celebrating writing, and keeping records.

Originally published as writing contest questions, these easy-to-use prompts can be used to help teens improve writing and/or think about their feelings, relationships, behaviour, and goals.

"John Simpson's memoir as the former Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). Simpson takes us from his first encounter with the dictionary in the old-fashioned world of Oxford in 1976 through to his retirement as Chief Editor thirty-seven years later. Simpson ... recounts the personal adventures of a life well lived, from marriage, to the birth of his two daughters. Simpson presents lexicography as an examination of the links between our language and our history"--Provided by publisher.

A pop-up, lift-the-flap ABC book in which each letter is represented by a different dinosaur.

The author delivers practical ideas on how to import close reading into daily planning.