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If you know a child who has a speech coming up or is simply interested in improving their ability to speak in public, this is a useful resource filled with tips and tricks as well as numerous excerpts from presidential speeches for inspiration. This audiobook explains the key elements of speech-making to a younger audience from picking the right topic, to how to structure a speech, to offering a great delivery. The audiobook contains numerous tips and tricks to write a good speech and then perform it well.

Spelling can be very challenging for kids, especially when more videos are being watched than books are being read these days. Luckily, spelling and reading comprehension are two things that can still be taught in a fun and interactive way that people of all ages can enjoy.

This book will increase your child's word power, and you may learn something, too. A love of language is such an important skill, and this book explains the important of picking the right words and broadening your vocabulary with lots of examples. Learn the origins of the words gobbledygook and bop. Learn about compound words, metaphors, riddles, and even creating your own words. You'll also pick up some obscure words along the way from absquatulate to tintinnabulation and learn how lots of different words can describe similar activities.

Two- and three-letter words, spelling and pronunciation, and 500 sample sentences. This audiobook will help help kids master simple words and their pronunciation and spelling. They will learn how to construct simple sentences.

Learn How to Spell is a series of books for preschoolers to learn how to spell everyday words from various subjects. Each audiobook will focus on a given subject with an easy-to-follow way of spelling out each word. The words are repetitive for easier comprehension. The first book of the series is Pet Animal Words, and it teaches preschoolers how to spell different pet animals, from "bird" to "fish".

Children learn English differently from adults. They have an innate ability to pick up language while taking part in an activity that connects language with images. That's why connecting animals and English fundamentals is a secret way to program the language into your children's brain. Young kids are like sponges. And once your kid grows older, it becomes much harder to learn a foreign language. Don't let your fears and lack of knowledge take away your child's opportunities.

Similes are words that can make you smile. Similes (sim-uh-leez) are words that compare two different things. Similes have either the word “like” or the word “as”. Have fun making up your own similes. But be careful! Not all similes make people smile. See if you can think about and figure out the meaning of each simile before you hear the possible answers.

Hyperbole (HIGH-purr-buh-lee) are groups of words that exaggerate to make a point. If you say I have a ton of work, you don’t really have 2,000 pounds of work. You overstate to make the point that you have lots of work to do. See if you can guess the meaning of these hyperbole before you listen for possible answers. There can be many other possible answers for them that are not stated.

Spelling can be very challenging for kids, especially since they watch more videos than read books, these days. Luckily, spelling and reading comprehension are two things that can still be taught in a fun and interactive way that people of all ages can enjoy. Having a fun, educational audiobook like ours allows for a greater, unmatched, all-in-one learning experience not offered by any other book in the industry.

Young children learn English differently from adults. They have an innate ability to pick up language while taking part in an activity that connects language with images. That's why connecting animals and English fundamentals is a secret way to program the language into your children's brain.

This audiobook is a fun and easy way to introduce your child to the alphabets, while learning the French language and the correct pronunciation of French alphabets. Written in English and French, with French pronunciation.

Durch einfache und effiziente Speed Reading Übungen lernen Sie erfolgreich und mühelos das Schnelllesen und verändern Ihre Lesegewohnheiten bewusst. Sie werden schweres Lesematerial, wie akademische Fachartikel, fremdsprachige und lange Texte doppelt so schnell lesen und besser behalten.

A principis del segle XX, una dona jove viu una passió prohibida, un enardiment que no havia sentit mai abans i que la trasbalsa tota. On la conduirà aquest amor? Quan la seva vida fa un gir inesperat, haurà de ser valenta per tirar endavant. Religió, sexe, sentiment i dolor marquen l’existència de Caterina en una època que les emocions es callaven i els pecats mataven. Una precisió mesurada, una elegància literària única i una tècnica narrativa sorprenent ens demostren que ens trobem davant d’una jove promesa en català.

Can you walk and talk at the same time? How about Jabber Walk? Can you write and draw and walk and journal all at the same time? If not, you're in luck: exuberant, blue-cheesy cilantro man Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, is here to teach you everything he knows about being a real-life, bonified, jabberwalking poet! Jabberwalkers write and speak for themselves and others no matter where their feet may take them - to jabberwalk is to be a poet on the move.

You аlwауѕ hеаr thе mоttо "reduce, rеuѕе, rесусlе!" but dо you really knоw whаt it mеаnѕ? Sо mаnу thingѕ саn influеnсе hоw, why, when, оr whеrе you rесусlе, inсluding where уоu livе and how уоu livе, whеrе you work and how уоu work, аnd much mоrе. Yоu ѕhоuld knоw thе рrореr elements оf rеduсing your resource consumption, rеuѕing what уоu саn, аnd recycling products tо ensure a better аnd hеаlthiеr еаrth for your сhildrеn in оrdеr to tackle the рrоjесt full fоrсе and with thе right concept in mind.

Writing prompts are a superb way of getting the imagination working. A child is able to listen to the prompt and then conjure up a story that comes to mind from that prompt, although it's not as simple as it sounds. The challenge to the child is to find a story no one else will find, using that prompt to give them their initial ideas. This book teaches children to be able to use prompts to produce stories and is split into different categories, so that the child can choose the category that suits the mood.

This audiobook is about the use of uppercase letters and periods in English writing.

Newbery Award–winning author Jack Gantos shares advice for how to be the best brilliant writer in this funny and practical writing guide perfect for all kids who dream of seeing their name on the spine of a book. With the signature wit and humor that have garnered him legions of fans, Gantos...

Come along with me and learn all about reading! Brian P. Cleary's wacky sentences make phonics fun!

One audiobook couldn't possibly be enough to cover the topic of nouns. The cats are back with their comical examples to drive home to listeners just what a noun is. Specific types of nouns - such as abstract nouns and proper nouns - are also introduced in this funny expansion on the topic.