Books about Syllables from Amazon.com

This book, intended for use with the core Words Their Way book, is the ideal supplement to any phonics, spelling and word study curriculum The Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Spelling, and Vocabulary Instruction core book provides a practical, research-based and classroom-proven way to study words with pupils; this companion volume augments that content with numerous reproducible sorts that specifically address the needs of the syllables and affixes speller. Accompanying the sorts are step-by-step directions for guiding pupils through the sorting lessons, as well as follow-up activities and tips for using the sorts to their best advantage. This book is designed to help all teachers address the needs of all readers and spellers, giving them confidence in the knowledge that their teaching is developmentally appropriate.

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Using the sorts in this book, your students will acquire word pattern knowledge, learn spelling rules, and formulate generalizations through compare-and-contrast activities. They'll learn to sort groups of words according to spelling rules, meanings, endings, sound patterns, prefixes, suffixes, spelling generalizations, syllables, and other shared properties..
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40,000 Selected Words is a sourcebook of words sorted by consonant sounds in the English language. It has been prepared for Communication Disorder Specialists, Speech-Language Pathologists, teachers in Special Education and ESL, regular classroom teachers, students, parents, and professionals dedicated to the task of improving communication skills. The lists are comprehensive and varied enough to be used with children or adults. .
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Take a hilarious crash course in literature—just three pithy lines—from a bestselling haiku humorist

Why spend weeks slogging through The Iliad when you could just read the haiku? From Homer to Faulkner to Lao Tzu, the Great Books are now within the reach of even the shortest attention spans. Show off your literary prowess at cocktail parties with minimal prep time, thanks to the author of the popular Haikus for Jews.

In the sixteenth century, Zen monks in Japan developed the haiku, a poem consisting of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Little did they know that their ancient art form was destined to become a handy tool for today’s time-crunched Western reader!

Reducing eyestrain and deforestation, Haiku U. distills dialogue and plot, capturing the essence of our favorite literary classics, seventeen syllables at time:

Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past:
Tea-soaked madeleine—
a childhood recalled. I had
brownies like that once.

Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre:
O woe! His mad wife—
in the attic! Had they but
lived together first.

Just in time for graduation, Haiku U. gives the gift of an entire literary canon, packed into one hilarious gem..
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Take the Mystery Out of Spelling and Reading! Is it their, they're, or there; accept or except; advice or advise? What are the five ways the j sound can be spelled? These questions and more are answered in Trivium Pursuit's newest book Handy English Encoder Decoder: All the Spelling and Phonics Rules You Could Ever Want to Know by Harvey Bluedorn. English spelling employs several different and sometimes complex codes and rules for representing sounds. How this all works is a mystery to many people. Encoder Decoder solves this mystery by conveniently arranging these codes and rules in an easy and accessible format. Students, teachers, writers, and speakers will find the Encoder Decoder handy for looking up any spelling or phonics rule. Encoder Decoder collects in one place what is needed to become a better speller and a more proficient reader. This one little volume contains: more than 60 categorized spelling rules; over 200 phonics rules; rules for dividing words into syllables; commonly confused spellings and word pairs; spelling and phonics games; and much more..
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Designed for ages 9-21, "Power Tools for Literacy" targets the problems of struggling readers, students with learning disabilities or dyslexia, and English learners. The 300 copy-ready lessons in this program foster a systematic understanding of the structure of English words. Using multi-sensory principles, "Power Tools for Literacy" teaches decoding strategies, syllabication, spelling, and vocabulary enrichment. Struggling readers learn to recognize and synthesize the following components of long words: seven kinds syllables, base words, compound words, prefixes, suffixes, and Latin/Greek roots. This instruction enables students to read and spell the difficult words they would otherwise skip..
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Seventeen Syllables and Other Stories brings together fifteen stories that span Hisaye Yamamoto's forty-year career. It was her first book to be published in the United States. Yamamoto's themes include the cultural conflicts between the first generation, the Issei and their children, the Nisei; coping with prejudice; and the World War II internment of Japanese Americans..
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When she was my mom
she said no sweets before lunch.
Hypocrite grandma.

This collection of irreverent haiku explores the reality of modern motherhood complete with dirty diapers, spilled SpaghettiOs, obnoxious purple dinosaurs, carseats, strollers, choking hazards, and more.

It's the perfect gift for new moms with young children at home a book that can be picked up for a minute and then put down to wipe a nose or settle an argument, all while making Mom laugh.

With more than 100 haiku and 40 whimsical illustrations, Haiku Mama is a collection of verse that all mothers (and their family and friends) will love..
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Contains The Complete Texts With All The Whimsical Illustrations Of The Exceedingly Rare First Editions Of The Three Books: The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts (1896), More Beasts For Worse Children (1897) And A Moral Alphabet (1899)..
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