In Alphabet Anatomy, the letters come to life based upon their unique graphic features, to entertain and teach children by revealing what they do when they're not busy making words. A short, fun rhyme for each lower case letter provides an easy means for letter recognition and mastery. Here's what you'll find in the pages of this book: Fun rhymes and illustrations that creatively foster and accelerate letter recognition. An innovative method for visual and auditory recall of each lower case letter's sound, shape, and print formation. A visual and auditory tool to help your child remember the directional handwriting strokes required to properly write each lower case letter. Enjoy the fun learning adventure and master the alphabet letters by unlocking the mystery of their shapes. Visit our website at alphabetanatomy.com to learn more. Discover more letter fun in Meet the Capital Letters "

Alphabet Anatomy's innovative rhyming verses and unique illustrations instruct on letter sound, recognition, AND how to write the letter, thus its anatomy. Thoroughly entertaining, each letter's heartwarming personality and characteristics will engage and delight children as they discover what the letters do behind the scenes when they're not busy making words. The letters know that the journey to reading is inherently complex, and mastery of these essential skills is absolutely vital for future success. In Alphabet Anatomy, the letters love to share their lives, and their highest aspiration is that each child who meets them will embrace this wondrous journey, and develop a life-long love for not only reading but writing as well. Alphabet Anatomy teaches full understanding of the alphabet, that is, the four inter-connected components: 1. Letter shape knowledge or recognition; 2. Letter name knowledge; 3. Letter sound knowledge; 4. Letter writing ability. In addition, Alphabet Anatomy utilizes the four core elements which extensive research has proven effectively teach reading and provide a solid and effective foundation for proficient reading in later years: 1. Phonological awareness; 2. Letter identification; 3. Vocabulary development; 4. Recall and retell sentences and stories. Soon to come: Meet The Lower Case Letters

ALPHABET ANATOMY: MEET THE CAPITAL LETTERS Teaching the alphabet and letter knowledge has never been easier or more fun! In Alphabet Anatomy, the letters come to life based upon their unique graphic features, to entertain and teach children by revealing what they do when they're not busy making words. A short, fun rhyme for each capital letter provides an easy means for letter recognition and mastery. Here's what you'll find in the pages of this book: A fun and easy way to teach your child the alphabet and foster letter recognition. A simple method for visual and auditory recall of each letter's sound, shape, and print formation. A visual and auditory tool to help your child easily recall how to write each capital letter. "A great tool for language learning at the phonological level, ... [A] unique way for children to build reading and writing skills..." - Sherry Artimenko, M.A., C.C.C., Speech Language Pathologist "This is a very special ABC picture book." - Maryann Scheufele, Family Literacy Advocate/EnglishTeacher "A necessary addition to all preschool book shelves! Even lower elementary classrooms will benefit from this book." - Maria Taylor, Preschool Teacher "I think this should be on every kindergarten classroom shelf." - Sandra Stiles, Teacher Visit our website at alphabetanatomy.com to learn more. Discover more letter fun in Meet the Lower Case Letters!"

Amusing rhymes playfully teach the letter components with the creative construction of "life" for the letters based on their shape. Here's what you'll find in the pages of this book: * Fun rhymes and illustrations that foster letter recognition. * A simple method for visual and auditory recall of each letter's sound, shape, and printformation. * A visual and auditory tool to help your child remember the directional handwriting strokesrequired to properly write each lower case letter. Enjoy the fun learning adventure and master the alphabet letters by unlocking the mystery of theirshapes. Discover more letter fun in Meet the Capital Letters!

In addition to examining the form and anatomy of every letter in the alphabet, punctuation marks and special characters, the book examines over 150 typefaces, their origins, and font characteristics, visually explained by full page tables including scale, weight, and useful alternatives. Cross-references allow typefaces to exist in a broader visual culture context, comparing important designs with seminal artpieces and movements, from Gutenbergrsquo;s era to today. Special attention is also given to the aesthetics of the digital age and the choice of the right typeface for a job. Rounding out the guide are an in-depth comparison between sans-serif and serif typefaces, an essay about measuring systems and indications, advice about typographic rules, plus a manual for developing digital fonts.

The market for print steadily expanded throughout the eighteenth-century Atlantic world thanks to printers' efforts to ensure that ordinary people knew how to read and use printed matter. Reading is and was a collection of practices, performed in diverse, but always very specific ways. These practices were spread down the social hierarchy through printed guides. Eve Tavor Bannet explores guides to six manners or methods of reading, each with its own social, economic, commercial, intellectual and pedagogical functions, and each promoting a variety of fragmentary and discontinuous reading practices. The increasingly widespread production of periodicals, pamphlets, prefaces, conduct books, conversation-pieces and fictions, together with schoolbooks designed for adults and children, disseminated all that people of all ages and ranks might need or wish to know about reading, and prepared them for new jobs and roles both in Britain and America.

You've experienced the shiny, point-and-click surface of your Linux computer--now dive below and explore its depths with the power of the command line. The Linux Command Line takes you from your very first terminal keystrokes to writing full programs in Bash, the most popular Linux shell (or command line). Along the way you'll learn the timeless skills handed down by generations of experienced, mouse-shunning gurus: file navigation, environment configuration, command chaining, pattern matching with regular expressions, and more. In addition to that practical knowledge, author William Shotts reveals the philosophy behind these tools and the rich heritage that your desktop Linux machine has inherited from Unix supercomputers of yore. As you make your way through the book's short, easily-digestible chapters, you'll learn how to: • Create and delete files, directories, and symlinks • Administer your system, including networking, package installation, and process management • Use standard input and output, redirection, and pipelines • Edit files with Vi, the world's most popular text editor • Write shell scripts to automate common or boring tasks • Slice and dice text files with cut, paste, grep, patch, and sed Once you overcome your initial "shell shock," you'll find that the command line is a natural and expressive way to communicate with your computer. Just don't be surprised if your mouse starts to gather dust.