Lahiri, Jhumpa
Summary: "In 2016, the novelist Jhumpa Lahiri published In Other Words, the story of her quest to learn Italian, which involved moving with her family to Italy to immerse herself fully in her adopted language. The book builds on that account through eight essays that reflect her early career as a translator. One essay uses her teaching of the Echo and Narcissus myth to reflect on the meaning of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 418 LAHSummary: Faced with a mountain of research to conduct, reading to do, and papers to write, students must work both efficiently and shrewdly. This three-section program tells how to identify and cite reliable online and offline sources of information, carve textbook chapters into manageable chunks, and outline and revise papers-all elements that are essential to getting the job done well. Correlates to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Reading rate and comprehension can mean the difference between success and failure to students. Three strategies for improving both are presented in this program. The first suggests reading during the day, for short periods in a quiet place, for maximum efficiency. One method demonstrates how to divide words into groups on a page as an effective way of improving reading rate. The SQ3R Strategy...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: A torrent of e-mails, faxes, memos, reports, contracts, and newsletters threatens to drown the typical new hire in a sea of paper and text. With simple methods for tackling an immense volume of content, this program helps students manage workplace reading tasks quickly and efficiently without overlooking important information. Featured tips show viewers how to stay focused, prioritize reading...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Scheunemann, Pam
Summary: This fun title gives kids lots of ideas for projects to make for reading and writing using a wide variety of materials. There's nothing like having a good book in your hand or writing your thoughts in a journal! This book will help kids enhance their reading and writing experiences. The projects range from making beaded pens to stylish bookmarks to felt book covers and beyond!
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Pub. Company 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 745.5 SCHSummary: This teleconference for teachers, administrators, and parents addresses the issues of improving comprehension; cognitive coaching; the link between thinking, reading, and writing; and the integration of instruction and assessment. The program features Syracuse University Professor Harold Herber, Professor Dorothy Strickland of Rutgers University, Robert Peterkin of Harvard University's Urban...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: If Mark and his colleagues are to meet a tight research deadline, they will have to read faster-and smarter-than ever. This dramatization illustrates the value of taking a time-saving approach to reading, which includes using skimming and active reading techniques, taking advantage of reader-friendly devices designed to help pinpoint information, and diligently concentrating on the content...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Brown, Marc Tolon.
Summary: Arthur's sister D.W. tries to use a reading trick to get Arthur to change Baby Kate's diapers.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE BROO'Connor, Jane
Summary: Joining her new fifth-grade friend, Violet, for Monday reading sessions, Nancy is upset when a few Mondays go by and they are unable to see each other.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE OCOTrump, Ivanka
Summary: The daughter of Donald Trump and founder of her eponymous fashion brand counsels women on how to achieve maximum success in all areas of life through a strategic prioritization that includes family, friends, and creative pursuits, as well as career ambitions. "I believe that when it comes to women and work, there isn't one right answer. The only person who can create a life you'll love is you....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Portfolio/Penguin 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 651 TRURebboah, Julie.
Summary: Words are more than just a collection of letters and sounds. This book, with its simple, success-oriented structure, can be the first step for a child in transforming strange shapes on a page into those most magical of things: words.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Lightning Bug Learning Press 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Shaywitz, Sally E.
Summary: "From one of the world's leading experts on reading and dyslexia comes the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help one understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plague American children today. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels--as well as for their parents,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Parks, Tim.
Summary: "Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Why should a group of aging Swedish men determine what "world" literature is best? Do books change anything? Did they use to? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I'm Reading From, the internationally...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Review Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808.3 PARConn, Marla
Summary: "Set 2: Letter Recognition M-Z includes 12 leveled storybooks featuring colorful animal characters, an activity sheet and classroom guide with suggestions for use."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Spurgin, Timothy.
Summary: Examines the wonderful feeling of engaging with a novel or short story on all levels and learning how artful readers think about and approach the works they read.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 808 ARTCall number: DVD 808 ART
Alterman, Glenn
Contents: What is a cold reading? -- 48 basic requirements for all cold readings -- 25 technical rules for all cold readings -- 25 common cold-reading mistakes -- 50 things you need to know about cold reading for theater auditions -- Analysis of cold reading plays -- Exercises for cold reading plays -- 26 tips for cold reading monologues -- Analysis of cold reading monologues -- Exercises for cold...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Smith and Kraus 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 792 ALTSpurgin, Timothy.
Summary: "These lectures demonstrate how to read fiction carefully for full enjoyment. The lectures begin with basic concepts from simpler stories before progressing into books famous for their complexity. The lectures explain literary devices such as irony and foreshadowing and show how skilled authors have used such devices to great effect in classic works of literature"--Guidebook.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2009
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3 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 808 ARTCall number: CD 808 ART V. 1 OF 2
Call number: CD 808 ART V. 2 OF 2
Summary: Developed by nationally acclaimed ACT tutor Mauri Artz, this proven, engaging ACT tutoring course can help students achieve higher scores for college admission and/or applications for scholarships and grants. This pack provides score-raising methods for students to utilize for the Reading section of the test, and an easy approach to the Essay segment. The pack will give students an advantage in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Launchpad 378.1662 ACT 2017Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī
Summary: "THe poetry of Moulana Jalaluddin Rumi is without question some of the most refined mystical poetry ever created, and his work has been compared in stature to that of Shakespeare and Dante. THanks to Shahram Shiva's current transliteration, English-speaking lovers of Rumi's poetry will now have the opportunity to 'read' his verse aloud, observing the rhythm, the repetition, and the rhyme that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hohm Press 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 491.5 SHIVernon, Diana.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clarkson Potter 1995
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 745.582 VERBrown, Marc
Summary: Arthur starts saving the money he earns in order to buy a surprise birthday present for D.W.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE BRORedding, Otis
Contents: Hard to handle -- Knock on wood -- Chained and bound -- Fa-fa-fa-fa-fa (sad song) -- Mr. Pituful -- My lover's prayer
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino 2007
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD RHYTHM AND BLUES REDPumphrey, Jarrett
Summary: One, Two, Kat, and Four want to form a club so together they figure out how to make a sign saying what their club should be called.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion Books for Children 2022
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1 available in Beginning Readers - New Reader (Green), Call number: JBR GREEN PUMSummary: It may be the single greatest cause of disagreement, and even moral disdain, between family members, neighbors, and entire nationalities-but the way we raise our children is also tied to deeply ingrained beliefs and traditions. This program examines the subject, focusing on wide disparities between cultures in the matter of parenting and child-rearing. From India's Tihar prison, where some...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010