Best Language Learning Method - April 2024

Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concrete techniques for becoming more productive learners.Memory plays a central role in our ability to carry out complex cognitive tasks, such as applying knowledge to problems never before encountered an... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0674729013
• ASIN: 0674729013
• ISBN: 0674729013
• Brand: Belknap Press
• Manufacturer: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press

The Writing Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Writers

The Reading Strategies Book made the New York Times Best Seller List by making it simpler to match students' needs to high-quality instruction. Now, in The Writing Strategies Book, Jen Serravallo does the same, collecting 300 of the most effective strategies to share with writers, and grouping them beneath 10 crucial goals. "You can think of the goals as the what, "writes Jen, "and the strategies as the how." From composing with pictures all the way to conventions and beyond, you'll have just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's help you'll: develop individual goals for every writer give ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032507822X
• ASIN: 032507822X
• ISBN: 032507822X
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

SAT Prep Black Book: The Most Effective SAT Strategies Ever Published

Click the "look inside" feature above to browse the SAT Black Book and get a feel for how it approaches the SAT! The fully up-to-date SAT Prep Black Book, Second Edition gives you unique, effective SAT strategies from Mike Barrett, an SAT tutor with clients all over the globe who pay him hundreds of dollars an hour for phone tutoring. In addition to extensive and effective training on every aspect of the SAT, the SAT Black Book gives you detailed, systematic, easy-to-follow walkthroughs for every question in 4 of the College Board's official SAT Practice Tests.The Black Book is a must-have in ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0692916164
• ASIN: 0692916164
• ISBN: 9780692916162
• Manufacturer: ACT Prep Books

The Reading Strategies Book: Your Everything Guide to Developing Skilled Readers

With hit books that support strategic reading through conferring, small groups, and assessment, Jen Serravallo gets emails almost daily asking, "Isn't there a book of the strategies themselves?" Now there is. "Strategies make the often invisible work of reading actionable and visible," Jen writes. In The Reading Strategies Book, she collects 300 strategies to share with readers in support of thirteen goals-everything from fluency to literary analysis. Each strategy is cross-linked to skills, genres, and Fountas & Pinnell reading levels to give you just-right teaching, just in time. With Jen's ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 032507433X
• ASIN: 032507433X
• ISBN: 9780325074337
• Brand: Heinemann
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons

Is your child halfway through first grade and still unable to read? Is your preschooler bored with coloring and ready for reading? Do you want to help your child read, but are afraid you'll do something wrong? RAs DISTARreg; is the most successful beginning reading program available to schools across the country. Research has proven that children taught by the DISTARreg; method outperform their peers who receive instruction from other programs. Now for the first time, this program has been adapted for parent and child to use at home. Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons is a complete, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0671631985
• ASIN: 0671631985
• ISBN: 0671631985
• Brand: Touchstone
• Manufacturer: Touchstone

The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded

Named one of 100 Leadership & Success Books to Read in a Lifetime by Amazon EditorsThe world’s most trusted guide for leaders in transitionTransitions are a critical time for leaders. In fact, most agree that moving into a new role is the biggest challenge a manager will face. While transitions offer a chance to start fresh and make needed changes in an organization, they also place leaders in a position of acute vulnerability. Missteps made during the crucial first three months in a new role can jeopardize or even derail your success.In this updated and expanded version of the international... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1422188612
• ASIN: 1422188612
• ISBN: 1422188612
• Brand: Harvard Business School Press
• Manufacturer: Harvard Business Review Press

Patterns of Power: Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language, Grades 1-5

Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca take you into primary and intermediate classrooms where students are curious about language, engage with the world around them, and notice and experiment with the conventions all writers use. Instead of chanting grammar rules or completing countless convention worksheets, we invite young writers to explore conventions as special effects devices that activate meaning. Our students study authentic texts and come to recognize these “patterns of power”—the essential grammar conventions that readers and writers require to make meaning. The fir... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1625311850
• ASIN: 1625311850
• ISBN: 1625311850
• Manufacturer: Stenhouse Publishers

Living Language Mandarin Chinese, Complete Edition: Beginner through advanced course, including 3 coursebooks, 9 audio CDs, Chinese character guide, and free online learning

Complete Mandarin Chinese is a unique multimedia program that takes you beginner to advanced level in one convenient package.   At the core of Complete Mandarin Chinese is the Living Language Method™, based on linguistic science, proven techniques, and over 65 years of experience. Our method teaches you the whole language, so you can express yourself, not just recite memorized words or scripts.   Millions have learned with Living Language®. Now it’s your turn.     • 4 Books: 46 lessons, additional review exercises, culture notes, an extensive glossary, and a grammar summary—plu... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307478610
• ASIN: 0307478610
• ISBN: 0307478610
• Manufacturer: Living Language

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, 3rd Edition: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Nonviolent Communication Guides)

What is Violent Communication? If “violent” means acting in ways that result in hurt or harm, then much of how we communicate—judging others, bullying, having racial bias, blaming, finger pointing, discriminating, speaking without listening, criticizing others or ourselves, name-calling, reacting when angry, using political rhetoric, being defensive or judging who’s “good/bad” or what’s “right/wrong” with people—could indeed be called “violent communication.”  What is Nonviolent Communication?  Nonviolent Communication is the integration of four things: • Consciou... [Read More]

• ASIN: 189200528X
• ASIN: 189200528X
• ISBN: 189200528X
• Brand: Rosenberg Marshall B
• Manufacturer: PuddleDancer Press

Deep Learning (Adaptive Computation and Machine Learning series)

An introduction to a broad range of topics in deep learning, covering mathematical and conceptual background, deep learning techniques used in industry, and research perspectives.“Written by three experts in the field, Deep Learning is the only comprehensive book on the subject.”―Elon Musk, cochair of OpenAI; cofounder and CEO of Tesla and SpaceXDeep learning is a form of machine learning that enables computers to learn from experience and understand the world in terms of a hierarchy of concepts. Because the computer gathers knowledge from experience, there is no need for a human compute... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0262035618
• ASIN: 0262035618
• ISBN: 0262035618
• Brand: The MIT Press
• Manufacturer: The MIT Press

The Next Step Forward in Guided Reading: An Assess-Decide-Guide Framework for Supporting Every Reader

In this resource-rich book, you’ll find:- All the planning and instructional tools you need to teach guided reading well, from pre-A to fluent, organized around Richardson’s proven Assess-Decide-Guide framework. - Prompts, discussion starters, teaching points, word lists, intervention suggestions, and more to support all students, including dual language learners and struggling readers. - 29 comprehension modules that cover essential strategies―monitoring, retelling, inferring, summarizing, and many others. - Plus an online resource bank with dozens of downloadable assessment and record-... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1338161113
• UPC: 078073161119
• ASIN: 1338161113
• ISBN: 1338161113
• Brand: SCHOLASTIC TEACHING RESOURCES
• Manufacturer: Scholastic Professional

Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Kids: Beginning Cursive

Cursive Handwriting Workbook for Kids: Beginning Cursive helps children learn the basics of cursive writing in the most enjoyable and fun way! What makes this amazing workbook different from most other workbooks on beginning cursive, is that it provides “dot to dot”- illustrated exercises to help children understand how exactly to form each cursive letter and how to connect cursive letters. In part 1, students learn and practice the cursive alphabet. They have to draw the snail’s trail inside the letter with a marker, following numbered dots, a fun way to learn how exactly to form each ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1540695174
• ASIN: 1540695174
• ISBN: 1540695174
• Manufacturer: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Living Language Italian, Complete Edition: Beginner through advanced course, including 3 coursebooks, 9 audio CDs, and free online learning

Complete Italian is a unique multimedia program that takes you beginner to advanced level in one convenient package.   At the core of Complete Italian is the Living Language Method™, based on linguistic science, proven techniques, and over 65 years of experience. Our method teaches you the whole language, so you can express yourself, not just recite memorized words or scripts.   Millions have learned with Living Language®. Now it’s your turn.     • 3 Books: 46 lessons, additional review exercises, culture notes, an extensive glossary, and a grammar summary—plus a bonus noteboo... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307478572
• ASIN: 0307478572
• ISBN: 9780307478573
• Manufacturer: Living Language

Living Language Japanese, Complete Edition: Beginner through advanced course, including 3 coursebooks, 9 audio CDs, Japanese reading & writing guide, and free online learning

Complete Japanese is a unique multimedia program that takes you beginner to advanced level in one convenient package.  At the core of Complete Japanese is the Living Language Method™, based on linguistic science, proven techniques, and over 65 years of experience. Our method teaches you the whole language, so you can express yourself, not just recite memorized words or scripts. Millions have learned with Living Language®. Now it’s your turn.    • 4 Books: 46 lessons, additional review exercises, culture notes, study tips, and an extensive glossary—plus a complete guide to readin... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307478653
• ASIN: 0307478653
• ISBN: 0307478653
• Brand: Living Language
• Manufacturer: Living Language

Understanding Texts & Readers: Responsive Comprehension Instruction with Leveled Texts

"Goals help guide my thinking about reader's skills within each level of text complexity, and a leveling system helps my understanding of readers' development from level to level." -Jennifer Serravallo Understanding Texts & Readers makes comprehension make sense. In it, Jennifer Serravallo narrows the distance between assessment and instruction. She maps the four fiction and four nonfiction comprehension goals she presented in The Reading Strategies Book to fourteen text levels and shares sample responses that show what to expect from readers at each. Jen simplifies text complexity and clari... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0325108927
• ASIN: 0325108927
• ISBN: 0325108927
• Manufacturer: Heinemann

How to Learn Any Language in 10 Steps: The Best, Easiest and Fastest Method to Learn A Language Without Teachers - eBook

In this book, you will learn a simple method that can be used by anyone to learn languages alone and in the comfort of his home. The method is based on an extensive research with

• UPC: 319015784

How to Learn Any language in 10 Steps: The Best, Easiest and Fastest Method to Learn A Language Without Teachers - eBook

In this book, you will learn a simple method that can be used by anyone to learn languages alone and in the comfort of his home. The method is based on an extensive research with

• UPC: 504099394

How to Speak Any Language Fluently : Fun, stimulating and effective methods to help anyone learn languages faster

This book will give you the skills to learn to speak any language with confidence. It uses techniques that can easily be incorporated into your daily life, while making use of whatever resources you have

• UPC: 226125527

Portuguese Language for Foreigners: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Learning Portuguese and Traveling in Portugal as Presented by the World’s Best Universities - eBook

This book is a compilation of texts, exercises, and a vast amount resources as used in the best universities to teach Portuguese to Foreigners. It includes the most effective methods to learn the Portuguese Language,

• UPC: 667683443

Portuguese Language for Foreigners: The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Learning Portuguese and Traveling in Portugal as Presented by the World’s Best Universities - eBook

This book is a compilation of texts, exercises, and a vast amount resources as used in the best universities to teach Portuguese to Foreigners. It includes the most effective methods to learn the Portuguese Language,

• UPC: 558651576

The Learning Code: The Psychology of Total Physical Response - How to Speed the Learning of Languages Through the Multisensory Method - A Practical Guide to Teaching Foreign Languages - eBook

The Learning Code is an exceptional guide designed to teach students of all ages and backgrounds language skills with the highly enhanced teaching methods that uses the kinesthetic, Visual and Auditory systems. This innovative manual

• UPC: 582806306

The Learning Code: The Psychology of Total Physical Response - How to Speed the Learning of Languages Through the Multisensory Method - eBook

Have you ever wonder why only a few students make it to the top of foreign language skills?This simple question calls for reflection on the need to use educational methods which accelerate and enhance the

• UPC: 131658419

A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Russian Language

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as

• UPC: 251743216

New, Practical, and Easy Method of Learning the German Language, Volume 2

New, Practical, and Easy Method of Learning the German Language, Volume

• UPC: 592135381

Introductory Book to Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak a Language in Six Months, Adapted to the German

Introductory Book to Ollendorff's New Method of Learning to Read, Write, and Speak a Language in Six Months, Adapted to the

• UPC: 384855131

How to Learn a Foreign Language; A Review of the Best Methods, Including the

• UPC: 283302056841
• Category: Nonfiction
• Price: 25 USD

How to Learn a Foreign Language; A Review of the Best Methods, ... 9780344738395

• UPC: 233220001308
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 11 GBP

How to Learn a Foreign Language; A Review of the Best Methods, ... 9780344738418

• UPC: 312599552795
• Category: Books
• Price: 21 GBP

How to Learn a Foreign Language; A Review of the Best Methods, ... 9780344738401

• UPC: 312599552815
• Category: Non Fiction
• Price: 11 GBP