The first comprehensive, research-based textbook on Internet-infused education, "Educational Psychology and the Internet" offers students an accessible guide to important issues in the field. Michael Glassman begins with an overview of the history that traces the evolution of the Internet and its significance for education. He outlines…

This textbook is a first reader that focuses on moving children from spoken to written vocabulary and recognizing by sight words already familiar by sound. The combination of construction with interpretation, of writing with reading leads directly to intelligent understanding and expression of thoughts on the written or printed page. It is…

This textbook is a fourth reader that uses supplementary reading, memory exercises, exercises in oral and written expression, vocal training, and phonic analysis. Poetry, prose, and biographies are included.

Pointing out that the style of the Associated Press (AP) defines clear writing, this revised edition of the practical and much-used AP stylebook is designed to be an essential handbook for all writers, editors, and students. The stylebook contains over 5000 entries laying out the AP's rules on grammar, spelling, punctuation, and usage. It gives…

This textbook is intended for use in the third and fourth grades, is divided into approximately 150 planned lessons for each year's work. These lessons are grouped into chapters, each composed of a series of related units that center about a common theme, providing work for a period equivalent in general to a school month. The material on which…

This textbook covers two years' work intended for grades five and six. The book is divided into approximately 160 carefully planned lessons for each year's work. These lessons are grouped into chapters, each composed of a series of related units that center on a common theme, providing work for a period equivalent in general to a school month. The…

This textbook covers two years' work intended for grades seven and eight. The book is divided into approximately 150 carefully planned lessons for each year's work. These lessons are grouped into chapters, each composed of a series of related units that center on a common theme. The material on which conversation and written exercises are based…

The table of 545 simplified Chinese characters indicates the proper forms for general use according to the State Council of the People's Republic of China. The simplified characters are arranged according to a system that combines stroke counting and stroke order. Alongside the simplified characters are their traditional and more complex forms,…

This textbook is part two of an arithmetic course. It provides systematic drill on oral and written exercises, and review and test questions. Attention is invited to the properties of numbers, greatest common divisor, fractions, decimals, compound numbers, business arithmetic, ratio and proportion, alligation, and square and cube root, with the…

The manual teaches SignFont, a written form of sign language. Following a brief introduction, the first of three major sections describes the SignFont alphabet, structured according to the parts of every sign that is written (handshape, action area, location, movement). The second section discusses in greater detail how the SignFont characters are…

This textbook is an illustrated table book rather than an elementary arithmetic book. Its object is to suggest things for pupils to do. While it is impossible in a work so small to do more than give suggestions, the teacher will find little difficulty in supplying the deficiency by the use of the blackboard. Although there is nothing in the book…

This course on the language of Sri Lanka is intended to be taken under a Sinhala-speaking instructor. This module introduces the Sinhala writing system. The emphasis of the module is on letter recognition. Directions for writing the symbols in the "basic" alphabet are provided so that students will have a culturally appropriate and phonetically…

Even English speakers do not always know when to use a hyphen. Examples are given of some fairly clear-cut cases where the hyphen should be used, leading to the formulation of some usable rules. (IFS/WGA)

This book is for boys and girls who know the numbers from one to thirty thoroughly, who can count to one thousand, who know something of the multiplication tables of two, three, four, five, six, ten, and twelve, and who understand the simplest facts about fractions. This book is both to be read and to be studied. It calls for oral recitation and…

This textbook is an elementary English course based upon two fundamental facts in regard to language: (1) the purpose of language is communication of thought; and (2) the use of language is an art. The book also provides a complete and progressive course of instruction in the use of the dictionary as an aid to both oral and written language.…