This book fulfills the promise of its title by revealing the excitement of language study, the constancy of language change, and the impact of language on our everyday lives. Sixty-one reading selections not only provide models and inspiration for writing but also help develop critical reading skills, data analysis, vocabulary enlargement, and facilitates communication. Including visuals, interesting details about language change, and other histories of words. The organization of the book leads the reader from personal, subjective writing to objective and academic writing. Treating current and popular topics, this book addresses all types of reading materials, such as news stories, headlines, letters-to-the-editor, a video script, a sweepstakes offer, cartoons, and road signs through the lens of language. Chapter titles include You and Your Names; Labels of Primary Potency; Language for Fun; and Changing Words in a Changing World. Anyone with an interest in the dynamics of language.

Living Language: Reading, Thinking, and Writing

Politics & Social Sciences

Nilsen, Alleen Pace

Social Sciences

Longman

Most vocabulary books either give good advice about teaching vocabulary or provide ways to teach specific words, Vocabulary Plus does both by presenting sound theory combined with workable teaching materials. The major advantage of a source-based approach is that the words have "natural" connections to each other and so can be taught through what are variously called gestalts, webs, or ladders. Because the words have grown out of the most basic parts of human experience, even young children have a place to start as they unlock and learn new concepts. There is no need to create "fake" mnemonics to help students remember isolated words, nor is there a need to devise "wrong" sample sentences from which students select the correct answer. Each chapter includes Workshop pages ready for photocopying, along with suggestions for many other activities that will engage students' interest long enough that their minds will have time to absorb the meanings. Inservice and preservice teachers.

Vocabulary Plus High School and Up: A Source-Based Approach

Reference

Nilsen, Don L. F.

Words, Language & Grammar

Pearson

Thoroughly updated and with new features, Literature for Today's Young Adults, Eighth Edition, the number one book in Young Adult Literature, continues to help teachers learn how to motivate teenagers to become life-long readers. Writing with the belief that students will have a better chance of becoming life-long readers if they have choices and enjoy what they read, renowned authors Alleen Nilsen and Ken Donelson offer a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to young adult literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context. The authors provide teachers with criteria for evaluating books of all genres, from poetry and nonfiction to mysteries, science fiction, and graphic novels. Coverage of timely issues such as pop culture and mass media have been added to help teachers connect with students' lives outside the classroom.

Literature for Today's Young Adults

Donelson, Kenneth L.

Literature & Fiction

Joan Bauer is one of the most popular young adult novelists today. She is well-respected not only by her readers, but also by librarians and critics, having won a Newbery Honor for Hope Was Here (2001), among other awards. Drawing on personal experiences with divorce and family alcoholism, Bauer has her seemingly ordinary teenage characters face situations that test, and prove, their maturity and confidence. Following an introduction to Bauer's work, and a biographical chapter, this volume examines each novel by breaking it down into sections on plot, characterization, setting, and themes. Readers consulting this book for research, or for deeper analysis of a favorite novel, will find this a complete resource.

Joan Bauer (Teen Reads: Student Companions to Young Adult Literature)

Teen & Young Adult

Greenwood

Thoroughly updated and with new features, Literature for Today's Young Adults, Eighth Edition, the number one book in Young Adult Literature, continues to help teachers learn how to motivate teenagers to become life-long readers. Writing with the belief that students will have a better chance of becoming life-long readers if they have choices and enjoy what they read, renowned authors Alleen Nilsen and Ken Donelson offer a comprehensive, reader-friendly introduction to young adult literature framed within a literary, historical, and social context. The authors provide teachers with criteria for evaluating books of all genres, from poetry and nonfiction to mysteries, science fiction, and graphic novels. Coverage of timely issues such as pop culture and mass media have been added to help teachers connect with students' lives outside the classroom.

Literature for Today's Young Adults (6th Edition)

Allyn&Bacon

Profiles the author, drawing on personal interviews and her own autobiographical writings to delineate her humor, her characterizations, and her overall approach to writing

Presenting M.E. Kerr

Laurel-Leaf

Provides an annotated list of recommended books for young adults

Literature for Todays Young Adults

Nilsen, Aileen P.

Scott, Foresman Co.

Profiles author M.E. Kerr, including her development as a writer as described in her memoir Me, Me, Me, Me, Me, Not A Novel (1983), and an analysis of her work, including such titles as Dinky Hocker Shoots Smack, Gentlehands, and the Fell series. The updated edition includes an examination of the impact of Kerrs homosexuality on her works. 01

Presenting M. E. Kerr, Updated Edition (Young Adult Authors Series)

History & Criticism

Twayne Publishers

The Language of Humor: An Introduction

Much of today's communication is carried out through various kinds of humor, and we therefore need to be able to understand its many aspects. Here, two of the world's leading pioneers in humor studies, Alleen and Don Nilsen, explore how humor can be explained across the numerous sub-disciplines of linguistics. Drawing on examples from language play and jokes in a range of real-life contexts, such as art, business, marketing, comedy, creative writing, science, journalism and politics, the authors use their own theory of 'Features, functions and subjects of Humor' to analyze humor across all disciplines. Each highly accessible chapter uses a rich array of examples to stimulate discussion and interaction even in large classes. Supplemental PowerPoints to accompany each of the 25 chapters are available online, taking many of the insights from the chapters for further interactional discussions with students.

Cambridge University Press

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Living Language: Reading, Thinking, and Writing

Vocabulary Plus High School and Up: A Source-Based Approach

Literature for Today's Young Adults

Joan Bauer (Teen Reads: Student Companions to Young Adult Literature)

Literature for Today's Young Adults (6th Edition)

Presenting M.E. Kerr

Literature for Todays Young Adults

Presenting M. E. Kerr, Updated Edition (Young Adult Authors Series)

The Language of Humor: An Introduction

The Language of Humor: An Introduction