Shows that the evidence of extra-ordinary happenings long, long ago can still be seen today.

Children's Book of Irish Fairy Tales

Children's Books

Dunn, Patricia

Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths

Irish Amer Book Co

In the first comprehensive study to connect composition and learning disabilities, Patricia Dunn both challenges and confirms what many believe about writing.

Learning Re-Abled: The Learning Disability Controversy and Composition Studies

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Heinemann

College composition is failing on three counts: we are not using all available means of helping students realize and use the power of written text; we are relying too much on linguistic pathways; and we are not taking full advantage of what students can teach us about other ways of knowing. In short, we're excluding people. Talking, Sketching, Moving offers a better alternative. Patricia Dunn makes the case for a writing pedagogy that draws upon multiple literacies and then gives numerous, detailed examples of how that theory can be translated into classroom practice. Challenging the assumption that written texts play an almost exclusive role in the production of knowledge in composition classrooms, her book foregrounds other, more intellectually diverse ways of knowing: oral, visual, kinesthetic, spatial, and social pathways. Dunn goes on to describe what she and her students learned when they experimented with Freire's "multiple channels of communication" and how it helped them gain the metacognitive distance they needed for writing and revision. Dunn is not the first person to encourage writing instructors to explore multiple literacies. But, with too few exceptions, those calls have been ignored - due mostly to narrow assumptions about how people come to know, as well as a vested interest in promoting language-based epistemologies. Ultimately, Dunn urges compositionists to expect more of themselves and their students.

Talking, Sketching, Moving: Multiple Literacies in the Teaching of Writing

rant (rant) n. 1. Violent or extravagant speech or writing. 2. A speech or piece of writing that incites anger or violence. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language grammar rant (gramm?r rant) n. 1. A writer's or speaker's view that language is deteriorating, and with it, the world, the people in it, and their morals. Patricia A. Dunn and Ken Lindblom Is bad grammar not just wrong but morally wrong? Do comma splices and dangling participles signal a spiritual decline among our youth? Does a double negative signal the end of civilization as we know it? How outraged should we be at errors of punctuation, syntax, diction, and just plain clumsy phrasing? Patricia A. Dunn and Ken Lindblom take on the world of grammar ranters, showing you how to take your students on a backstage tour of the ranters' claims and denunciations, and their outraged complaints about other people's language. Offering multiple examples and insights about a wide range of grammar rants, they focus on: <ul>
<li>grammar and morality </li> <li>grammar and intelligence </li> <li>spelling, texting, splices, fragments, and other "grammar traps." </li> </ul>
Each chapter includes actual rants along with extensive editorial commentary, instructional activities, and classroom lessons that will energize student discussion and educate students about language and correctness, about what it really means to be a good writer. Using Grammar Rants in writing classes will: <ul>
<li>teach students the conventions of different genres </li> <li>raise students' awareness of real world grammatical issues </li> <li>strengthen students' textual analysis and critical thinking skills </li> <li>break that link between error and evil. </li> </ul>
Grammar Rants provides the background teachers need to speak with authority about punctuation, correctness, and other hot-button issues. Its practical activities, handouts, and lessons will promote savvy writing by empowering teachers and students to see for themselves how best to raise the quality of their written and spoken language without resorting to ranting.

Grammar Rants: How a Backstage Tour of Writing Complaints Can Help Students Make Informed, Savvy Choices About Their Writing

Reference

Lindblom, Ken

Words, Language & Grammar

This daily devotional not only encourages the reader to draw into a closer relationship with God but describes the blessings and joy of doing so. Bible reading references show how God is faithful through all our days. Because of His love and faithfulness, we as His children should shine His light of love and hope to all we meet. The intended audience is both Christians and those who are seeking to understand more about why Christians chose to believe as they do. Sample: "How bold have your prayers been lately? How many of you have ever been "surprised" when God answered a prayer? Prayer is such a precious gift; however, I'm not sure we have its full potential all figured out. Some of us have our standard prayers that cover the "essentials" in our lives. Some of us just approach the throne when we have problems or concerns. Some of us may feel unworthy. However, when we accepted Jesus into our lives, prayer became one of the benefits. " Join the author for a year of stepping out on faith to become more of who God created us to be.

Be A Shining Star: Daily Devotional

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Independently published

"The next best young adult novel."―Huffington Post
Mariam Just Wants to Fit In.
That's not easy when she's the only Egyptian at her high school and her parents are super traditional. So when she sneaks into a party that gets busted, Mariam knows she's in trouble...big trouble.
Convinced she needs more discipline and to reconnect with her roots, Mariam's parents send her to Cairo to stay with her grandmother, her sittu.
But Marian's strict sittu and the country of her heritage are nothing like she imagined, challenging everything Mariam once believed.
As Mariam searches for the courage to be true to herself, a teen named Asmaa calls on the people of Egypt to protest their president. The country is on the brink of revolution―and now, in her own way, so is Mariam.

Rebels by Accident

Sourcebooks Fire

Fiction. Italian American. LAST STOP ON THE 6 is the return of the prodigal daughter to a world of long-buried hurts, political complexities, and female resilience. Dunn introduces characters of all possessing questions for which there are no easy answers - only the slow and steady re-awakenings of familial bonds and moral responsibility.

Last Stop on the 6 (VIA Folios)

Literature & Fiction

United States

Bordighera Press

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