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Part textbook and part handbook, this book leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. Each chapter offers an overview and several specific examples of its topic, followed by a set of clear exercises designed for writers of all varieties.

Test with success using Spectrum Language Arts for grade 6! The four-part lessons encourage creativity and strengthen writers by focusing on gerunds, colons and semicolons, and double negatives. The book features easy-to-understand directions and includes

Spectrum(R) Grade Specific for Grade 6 includes focused practice for reading, language arts, and math mastery. Skills include grammar and usage, parts of speech and sentence types, vocabulary acquisition and usage, multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals, equations and inequalities, problem solving in the coordinate plane, probability and statistics, and ratios, rates, and percents. --Each Spectrum(R) Grade Specific workbook includes a writer's guide and step-by-step instructions, helping children with planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and sharing writing. Children in grades 1 to 6 will find lessons and exercises that help them progress through increasingly difficult subject matter. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum is your childÕs path to language arts and math mastery.

An understanding of language arts concepts is key to strong communication skillsÑthe foundation of success across disciplines. Spectrum Language Arts for grade 6 provides focused practice and creative activities to help your child master vocabulary, parts of speech, sentence types, and grammar. --This comprehensive workbook doesnÕt stop with focused practiceÐit encourages children to explore their creative sides by challenging them with thought-provoking writing projects. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum Language Arts for grade 6 includes an answer key and a supplemental WriterÕs Guide to reinforce grammar and language arts concepts. With the help of Spectrum, your child will build the language arts skills necessary for a lifetime of success.

Spectrum(R) Grade Specific for Grade 6 includes focused practice for reading, language arts, and math mastery. Skills include grammar and usage, parts of speech and sentence types, vocabulary acquisition and usage, multiplying and dividing fractions and decimals, equations and inequalities, problem solving in the coordinate plane, probability and statistics, and ratios, rates, and percents. Spectrum Grade Specific workbooks contain focused practice for language arts mastery. Each book also includes a writer's guide. Step-by-step instructions help children with planning, drafting, revising, proofreading, and sharing writing. The math activities build the skills that children need for math achievement and success. Children in grades 1 to 6 will find lessons and exercises that help them progress through increasingly difficult subject matter. Aligned to current state standards, Spectrum is your child’s path to language arts and math mastery.

The most comprehensive collection of the landmark comic strip by the legendary Winsor McCay. The first in a full color oversized collection of the signature strip from America's greatest comic illustrator of all time. It includes rare Nemo promo art, the series that featured many of Nemo's characters first " Tales of The Jungle Imp" in color, and that wonderful New strip from 1905-1909.--Publisher.

Part textbook and part handbook, this book leads creative writers of all levels and all genres through the entire writing process. Each chapter offers an overview and several specific examples of its topic, followed by a set of clear exercises designed for writers of all varieties.

This book helps beginning English Writer and those who wish to reinforce writing fundamentals. A Step-by-step process guides through English sentence construction, emphasizing the most fundamental grammar rules. Eight parts of speech are covered: nouns, pronouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Next, clauses are covered: independent clauses and subordinate clauses (noun clauses, adjective, and adverb clauses). From this base, sentence construction builds with: simple sentences, compound sentences, complex sentences and compound-complex sentences. With sentence construction and punctuation mastered, you move on to building paragraphs with many examples of specific paragraph structures, including: topic sentence, supporting sentences and concluding sentences. Lastly, specific rhetorical structures are introduced: argumentation, cause and effect, comparison and contrast, definition, description, exemplification, journal, narration, opinion, persuasion, problem-solution and process. This approach helps you to get quick help with any specific writing problem you are facing. This book is perfect for ESL/EFL students. Contents Part I Eight Parts of Speech Unit 1 Noun Unit 2 Pronoun Unit 3 Adjective Unit 4 Verb Unit 5 Adverb Unit 6 Preposition Unit 7 Conjunction Unit 8 Interjection Part II Types of Clauses Unit 9 Independent Clause Unit 10 Dependent Clause Part III Types of Sentences Unit 11 Simple Sentence Unit 12 Compound Sentence Unit 13 Complex Sentence Unit 14 Compound-Complex Sentence Part IV Paragraph Structure Unit 15 Topic Sentence Unit 16 Supporting Sentence Unit 17 Concluding Sentence Part V Paragraph Rhetorical Structures Unit 18 Argumentation Unit 19 Cause and Effect Unit 20 Comparison and Contrast Unit 21 Definition Unit 22 Description Unit 23 Exemplification Unit 24 Journal Unit 25 Narration Unit 26 Opinion Unit 27 Persuasion Unit 28 Problem-Solution Unit 29 Process Appendix QES Software as a Service Suggested Answers to Exercises