Bøger af Carolyn Hurst

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The activities in this book will help your students understand what homophones, synonyms, and antonyms are and how they can use them to strengthen their writing skills. Homophones are words that sound the same but have different meanings -- like the words flower and flour. Synomyms are words the have the same meaning, or nearly the same meaning -- like the words earth and world. Antonyms are words that mean the opposite of each other -- like the words day and night. Several hands-on activities for each of these three important parts of speech are included in this 48-page book. Perfect for emerging readers and writers and ESL students.

This 48-page activity book explains what collective nouns are, provides numerous examples of commonly-used collective nouns, and reinforces how and when to use them through fun, interactive activities. Part of the award-winning Reading Fundamentals series published by Barker Creek.

Prefixes are those handy little syllables that can be added to the beginning of a word to change it's meaning. Suffixes act much the same way, but they are added to the end of a word. The fun, hands-on activities in this book will help your students learn the meaning and appropriate uses of several of the most commonly used prefixes and suffixes in the English language. Practice tests, templates for creating customized worksheets, and teaching tips are also included.

Similes are expressions that describe something by comparing it to something else, often using the words "like" or "as" in the description. Once your students have completed the fun, interactive activities in this book, they'll be as "quiet as mice" as they read with new-found confidence. They will also be as "brave as lions" when they incorporate similes in their next writing assignments!

Strengthen reading comprehension, reading fluency, and writing skills with the lessons in Barker Creek's popular Reading Fundamentals - Idioms Activity Book. Because the actual meaning of idioms differ from the literal meaning of the words used to construct them, idioms are one of the most difficult concepts English Language Learners have to master in order to truly understand our complex language. The hands-on-lessons in this activity book help students understand the meaning of 20 commonly used idioms. For each example given, students are asked to 1) draw the "literal" meaning of the idiom (for example, they are asked to draw "a piece of cake"), 2) explain, in their own words, what they think the idiom means, 3) color an illustrated definition of the idiom's actual meaning and then add this definition to their student created "Idioms Booklets", and 4) define the meaning of the idiom as used within the context of a short story. Two review tests are included to assess student understanding. Create at least 50 additional lessons using the Reproducible Templates and list of More Idioms also included in this book. Reading Fundamentals - Idioms is one of nine titles in Barker Creek's top-selling Reading Fundamentals Book Series. Companion chart sets are also available.