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Combining teaching experience, research findings, and first-hand parenting stories, this compelling and practical resource distills everything you need to know for a thorough understanding of language and early literacy development. Following the introductory chapter, each chapter focuses on a component of language and early literacy including oral language development, listening comprehension, vocabulary development, phonological and phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge and phonics instruction, handwriting and writing conventions, morphological awareness, digital literacy skills, and motivation for literacy. With an emphasis on the diversity of classrooms and types of learners, Promoting Language and Early Literacy Development is invaluable reading for parents and caregivers, early years teachers, learning support assistants, and nursery workers.

Combining teaching experience, research findings, and first-hand parenting stories, this compelling and practical resource distills everything you need to know for a thorough understanding of language and early literacy development. Following the introductory chapter, each chapter focuses on a component of language and early literacy including oral language development, listening comprehension, vocabulary development, phonological and phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge and phonics instruction, handwriting and writing conventions, morphological awareness, digital literacy skills, and motivation for literacy. With an emphasis on the diversity of classrooms and types of learners, Promoting Language and Early Literacy Development is invaluable reading for parents and caregivers, early years teachers, learning support assistants, and nursery workers.

When the local ghostwriter finds a corpse, she becomes involved in a murder-mystery that she must solve to save her daughter. Parker Fleming wears a lot of hats. She is a ghostwriter of newspaper articles, scripts, and mysteries. In her small town, she has a reputation for solving mysteries. When she discovers a murdered woman, Parker becomes involved in the case. The chief of police welcomes her expertise, but it comes with a cost. Parker must keep the dead woman's dog until the murder is cleared up. Harris, Parker's 12-year-old daughter, is delighted to have a dog. Parker can do without. The suspects pile up as Parker goes about helping the police. They all seem to have the means, motive, and opportunity to commit murder. But who did it? She pursues several paths that involve a long-lost sister, a divorced husband, a winery owner in need of money, and a jealous lover. Yet, none fit the murder perfectly. It is only after Parker figures out why the dog barks only at certain times that she solves the riddle. By then, her daughter has been kidnapped. Parker must free her daughter and save herself, even as the killer pursues her.

Opening a summer camp with their professor, a group of students come upon a disappearing young girl-the talisman of a demon and soon find themselves in a race with death.The Lake Lodoga Summer Camp sits on the East Park Reservoir near Devil's Elbow, large, serene, and lacking development. After a five-year hiatus, a professor seeks to reopen the camp and to prepare it, he brings a group of students, able workers. They find the camp empty as promised but even from the start they are bothered by a young girl who disappears at will. They don't share their hallucinations; who wishes to admit seeing "ghosts"? But the "ghosts" see the students. What the students don't know is that the camp contains a portal into a hell beyond their imagination and the portal must be fed.

When a group of strangers meets in a remote forest cabin, they soon find out they've been gathered together to be used as a sacrifice and must flee for their lives. A group of strangers arrives at a log house deep in the woods. They have been chosen to participate in a serious of tasks. If they complete the tasks according to the rules, they will receive financial rewards. While they bicker about how to go about things, they all need the money. As they go about their tasks, they are murdered one by one. And they are stranded. They cannot walk out and they have no transportation. They must try to stay alive even as death claims them. Some are convinced there is an Indian curse on the lake. Others look for human intervention. All wish to stay alive. Most will not make it.

After a mercenary steals a valuable device from an African warlord using customized weapons, the warlord dispatches an army of assassins to hunt down whoever made the guns and recover the priceless data. The lines of force are in play. In a sophisticated gunshop/warehouse, a young, Asian Female Engineer designs and builds exotic weaponry for special projects. In Africa, a Strongman possesses an old, large key that, if inserted into the right lock, might produce a method to control the most powerful man in the world-the President of the United States. The Chinese are interested in the "device" and have initiated their own acquisition protocol. U.S. Intelligence begins its own investigation. Violence is the order of the day, as the device is stolen, leaving the Strongman no choice but to use violence to retrieve it. Violence begets violence as several Weapons Builders are destroyed in the hunt-until only the Female Engineer is left.

The loss of a young child pushes a woman into a psychological thrill ride that can end only when she or her husband dies.

Physical Education and Sports for People With Visual Impairments and Deafblindness (2nd ed.) is a sourcebook on teaching the skills that will enable children and adults with visual impairments and deafblindness to participate in physical education, recreation, sports, and lifelong health and fitness activities. The second edition features comprehensive instructional methods and a renewed focus on teaching students self-advocacy through physical education, priming educators to create comprehensive instruction for their students of all ages.