This textbook provides a framework for teaching children’s language and literacy and introduces research-based tactics for teachers to use in designing their literacy programs for children. Exploring how sense-making occurs in contemporary literacy practice, Murphy comprehensively covers major topics in literacy, including contemporary multimodal literacy practices, classroom discourse, literacy assessment, language and culture, and teacher knowledge.Organized around themes—talk, r...

Amanda Bryant has been a spy for five long years, but when aliens suddenly appear claiming a deadly enemy threatens Earth's very survival, Amanda is asked by her superiors to accept the most dangerous mission of her life...volunteer to be an alien's bride, to share the strange warrior's bed and then betray him.Accepting the assignment, Amanda is processed as the first Interstellar Bride and transported halfway across the galaxy to her new mate's battleship where she awakens to disc...

Stop memorizing solutions. Start seeing why they work.Learn TypeScript Data Structures & Algorithms Visually - Volume 4 brings together 107 algorithms covering trees, linked lists, strings, and arrays, each part opened by short foundation sections on the core tree patterns, the pointers you must track, the string and character toolkit, off-by-one errors, and two pointers. Every algorithm is shown in full color, so nodes, pointers, windows, and changing values stand apart at a glanc...

Stop wasting time! Let Larry Jordan’s Adobe Premiere Pro Power Tips power your editing. Whether you are migrating to Premiere Pro from other editing software, or you are a long-time Premiere editor, this must-have guide is packed with hundreds of bite-sized tips to get you up and running in no time.Written with humor and deep technical understanding, Jordan shows you the secrets, shortcuts, tips, and techniques you need to make the most of Premiere Pro.Like any pro...

All You Need to Know, and Nothing You Don't, to Start Creating and Deploying Web Sites---In Full ColorTo design, build, and deploy modern websites, you need three core skills: the ability to write and edit HTML, wield CSS to control page design, and create efficient web layouts that serve users well. But you don't need to learn "everything" about HTML, CSS and web layout, just how to use them efficiently to solve real problems. In Learn Enough HTML, CSS...

Use these best practices to increase your productivity, efficiency and quality in Captivate projects. These 40 tips are divided into 5 categories:Achieving Consistency - Tips for achieving consistency in the look of buttons, images, fonts and the placement of objects in the projectLimiting Rework - Why reinvent the wheel? Learn ways to reduce your work load and make life easier for you in your Captivate projectsTime-Saving Tips - These tips will save your ...

This is a streamlined guide for developers who want to master TypeScript quickly and effectively. Designed with busy professionals in mind, this book condenses complex concepts into bite-sized lessons, offering hands-on examples and actionable insights. Whether you're preparing for a job interview or tackling challenging projects, this book equips you with the confidence and skills to excel.

Curriculum Design and Praxis in Language Teaching presents a variety of methodologies and theoretical perspectives for current and future postsecondary instructors in the areas of linguistics, second-language acquisition, and world literatures. Offering valuable insights for instructors, the materials presented in this book integrate perspectives and resources from various target languages, world regions, and cultures into areas related to teaching and learning within the field of...

Those creative professionals seeking the fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 choose Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 Classroom in a Book from the Adobe Creative Team at Adobe Press. The 19 project-based lessons in this book show readers step-by-step the key techniques for working in Premiere Pro CS6. Readers learn to take a project from beginning to end where they’ll get the basics on things like organizing media, using audio, creating transitions, produ...

Have you ever wished you could learn a new skill with one reading? Especially a skill that could pay you over $100,000 a year? Wish no longer. With his latest title, Java for Black Jack, famed teacher U.Q. Magnusson will get you going in the dominant programming language of the Internet, Java.Within this compact, easy-to-read Micro-Manual, you will learn the Java programming language by writing and running a Java-based simulation of the card game Black Jack. U.Q. presents the logic...

Spirit of Language That Held Us is a luminous, interwoven narrative of remembrance, heritage, and the sacred role of language in holding communities together.In this poignant novel, Jack Ndem Oduu transports readers to the Ogoni homeland of Nigeria's Niger Delta, where the silence of an abandoned village calls to a boy named keenye booh, his name meaning "to remember" or "to return." Guided by ancestral echoes and a destiny rooted in his very name, he discovers an elder who has kep...

Go from setting up your production environment, to building an app, to deploying it to the web using industry best practices along the wayKey FeaturesFollow a blueprint to build production-ready apps that can be adapted and tailored to your requirementsLearn how to combine a React frontend with a Quart backend, and run them in Docker on AWSAdopt industry best practices that can be used in your personal as well as work projectsBook...