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Help beginning readers advance to proficiency with The Big Book of Decoding Vowels. This helpful workbook teaches students how to decode words and match them to pictures, identify sentence-picture correlation, apply vowel sounds to spell words, and more! It is also great for remediation. Key Education products are intended to engage and educate young and special learners, as well as assist teachers in building a strong and developmentally appropriate curriculum for these children. The product lineÑcomprised of teacher/parent resource books, photographic learning cards, and other activity- and game-oriented materialsÑis designed to assist in ÒUnlocking the Potential in Every Child.Ó

Keep fast finishers busy while other students are still working. Choose from 35 Lively Language Arts activities, 35 Mind-Bender Math activities, and 31 Beyond Brainy activities that focus on critical thinking. Each activity is labeled with an estimated amount of time it will take to complete--usually just 5 to 15 minutes.

Every word is a part of speech. The term “Parts of Speech” refers to the role word plays in a sentence. And like any workplace or TV show with an ensemble cast, these roles were designed to work together. Read on to learn about the different parts of speech that the words we use every day fall into, and how we use them together to communicate ideas clearly. In every language we find groups of words that share grammatical characteristics. These groups are called “parts of speech,” and we examine them in this chapter and the next. Though many writers on language refer to “the eight parts of speech” (e.g., Weaver 1996: 254), the actual number of parts of speech we need to recognize in a language is determined by how fine-grained our analysis of the language is—the more finegrained, the greater the number of parts of speech that will be distinguished. In this book we distinguish nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs (the major parts of speech), and pronouns, wh-words, articles, auxiliary verbs, prepositions, intensifiers, conjunctions, and particles (the minor parts of speech). Every literate person needs at least a minimal understanding of parts of speech in order to be able to use such commonplace items as dictionaries and thesauruses, which classify words according to their parts (and sub-parts) of speech. For example, the American Heritage Dictionary (4th edition, p. xxxi) distinguishes adjectives, adverbs, conjunctions, definite articles, indefinite articles, interjections, nouns, prepositions, pronouns, and verbs. It also distinguishes transitive, intransitive,