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Take young pirate fans on an alphabet adventure! They'll love learning about gangways and quartermasters while practising their pirate lingo. Whimsical illustrations and melodic text create an arrr-esistable early-learning experience.

Young monster fans will find thrills and chills inside! A roster of legendary creatures from aliens and blobs to trolls and yetis await their next reader. Whimsical illustrations and melodic text will have early learners howling with delight.

Young dinosaur fans can feast their eyes on prehistoric beasts! This alphabet book pairs well-known dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Stegosaurus with lesser-known dinos like Dracorex and Yi Qui. Whimsical illustrations and melodic text create an irresistably Jurassic early-learning experience.

"A big bear and a small mouse discover all of the opposites between their animal friends"--.

Collects eight episodes of the animated television program, "WordGirl," introducing sixteen vocabulary words, and following as WordGirl and Captain Huggy Face battle a variety of villains, including Chuck the Evil Sandwich-Making Guy, Dr. Two-Brains, Mr. Big, Lady Redundant Woman, and more.

From wedding toasts to festive birthday cards, theNew Oxford Rhyming Dictionaryhas what every writer (or budding writer) needs--rhymes for over 45,000 words, including proper names, place names, and foreign terms used in English. A marvel of clarity, theDictionaryis incredibly easy to use, its clear organization and layout making it a snap to find the rhymes you're looking for. Words are grouped by sound and there is also a complete alphabetical index to help you quickly navigate to the relevant section. In-text notes offer tips on using rhymes effectively, make suggestions for expanding the rhyming lists included in the book, and give examples of how poets past and present have used rhyme. In addition, the fascinating introduction by John Lennard offers a brief outline of rhyming in its literary and historical contexts, and gives further advice on creative writing. This new edition includes over 200 words added to theOxford Dictionary of Englishsince the publication of the original volume, includingiPod, Americano, andvuvuzela. In short,The New Oxford Rhyming Dictionaryis a must-have tool for poets, lyricists, and writers of all kinds, as well as a delight for everyone who likes to play with words.

The R.A.F.T.S. technique provides students with the baseline information they need to focus their writing: a Role from which to write, an Audience to address, a Format in which to write, a Topic about which to write and a Strong verb that suggests the purpose of the writing.

Busy scenes in which characters from Sesame Street are involved in various activities with different objects introduce vocabulary words and the letters of the alphabet.

The Muppets introduce the alphabet with short poems about dinosaurs, cookies, ladders, quilts, and zebras.