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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $8.46
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Steven Pinker
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Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Dewey Decimal Number: 410
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Publication Date: 2007-09-01
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Reading Level: 576
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Description: In this classic, the world's expert on language and mind lucidly explains everything you always wanted to know about language: how it works, how children learn it, how it changes, how the brain computes it, and how it evolved. With deft use of examples of humor and wordplay, Steven Pinker weaves our vast knowledge of language into a compelling story: language is a human instinct, wired into our brains by evolution. The Language Instinct received the William James Book Prize from the American Psychological Association and the Public Interest Award from the Linguistics Society of America. This edition includes an update on advances in the science of language since The Language Instinct was first published.
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $7.84
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Manufacturer: Tarcher
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Monica Beyer
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Publisher: Tarcher
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Dewey Decimal Number: 419.70832
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Publication Date: 2006-09-21
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Reading Level: 128
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Description: Jump-start language and learning skills with this simple and elegant guide to using sign language to communicate with your preverbal baby.
Imagine averting a tantrum because your baby was able to communicate her desire for a favorite toy without tears, or simply sharing in your baby's wonderment at the sight of a bird on a tree-before he has even uttered his first word! Generally, children do not develop the motor skills necessary to speak until they are two, and yet they are able to communicate using sign language as early as six months. Written by an experienced signer and a mother of three, this illustrated step-by-step guide will allow readers to join the ranks of parents around the world who experience the rich rewards of communicating with their preverbal babies by using sign language.
Studies have shown that babies who are taught to use signs to express themselves before they can actually speak are more contented because they can communicate their basic needs (and ideas!) and also are more skilled at speaking once they begin to acquire language. Full of practical tips, real anecdotes, and straightforward diagrams of more than sixty basic American Sign Language signs, Baby Talk is the essential baby-signing handbook for parents, relatives, and caregivers-and their babies, who are just a little too young to express themselves verbally.
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Price: $8.00
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Sale: $8.00
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Manufacturer: FirstHand
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Alison Porcelli::Cheryl Tyler::Lucy Calkins
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Publisher: FirstHand
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Dewey Decimal Number: 372.6
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Publication Date: 2008-09-24
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Reading Level: 96
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Description: In A Quick Guide to Boosting English Acquisition in Choice Time Alison and Cheryl explain how choice-time workshops can be structured to help English language learners imagine, create, and explore language through play. They outline two units of study for choice-time workshops, the first using open-ended materials, the other using literature to inspire play. A Quick Guide to Boosting English Acquisition in Choice Time is part of the Workshop Help Desk series. About the Workshop Help Desk series The Workshop Help Desk series is designed for teachers who believe in workshop teaching and who have already rolled up their sleeves enough to have encountered the predictable challenges. If you've struggled to get around quickly enough to help all your writers, if you've wondered how to tweak your teaching to make it more effective and lasting, if you've needed to adapt your teaching for English learners, if you've struggled to teach grammar or nonfiction writing or test prep…if you've faced these and other specific, pressing challenges, then this series is for you. Provided in a compact 5" x 7" format, the Workshop Help Desk series offers pocket-sized professional development. To learn more visit www.unitsofstudy.com
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Price: $26.95
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Sale: $3.95
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Manufacturer: Viking Adult
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Christine Kenneally
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Publisher: Viking Adult
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Dewey Decimal Number: 400
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Publication Date: 2007-07-19
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Reading Level: 368
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Description: A compelling look at the quest for the origins of human language from an accomplished linguist
Language is a distinctly human gift. However, because it leaves no permanent trace, its evolution has long been a mystery, and it is only in the last fifteen years that we have begun to understand how language came into being.
The First Word is the compelling story of the quest for the origins of human language. The book follows two intertwined narratives. The first is an account of how language developed—how the random and layered processes of evolution wound together to produce a talking animal: us. The second addresses why scientists are at last able to explore the subject. For more than a hundred years, language evolution was considered a scientific taboo. Kenneally focuses on figures like Noam Chomsky and Steven Pinker, along with cognitive scientists, biologists, geneticists, and animal researchers, in order to answer the fundamental question: Is language a uniquely human phenomenon?
The First Word is the first book of its kind written for a general audience. Sure to appeal to fans of Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct and Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs, and Steel, Kenneally’s book is set to join them as a seminal account of human history.
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Price: $18.95
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Sale: $11.31
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Manufacturer: Da Capo Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Stanley I. Greenspan::Stuart Shanker
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Publisher: Da Capo Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 153.7
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Publication Date: 2006-02-06
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Reading Level: 512
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Description: In the childhood of every human being and at the dawn of human history there is an amazing and, until now, unexplained leap from simple genetically programmed behavior to language, symbolic thinking, and culture. In The First Idea, Stanley Greenspan and Stuart Shanker explore this missing link and offer brilliant new insights into two longstanding questions: how human beings first create symbols and how these abilities evolved and were transmitted across generations over millions of years. From fascinating research into the intelligence of both human infants and apes, they identify certain cultural practices that are vitally important if we are to have stable and reflective future societies.
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Price: $25.00
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Sale: $3.38
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Manufacturer: Scribner
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Charles Yang
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Publisher: Scribner
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Dewey Decimal Number: 401.93
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Publication Date: 2006-06-27
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Reading Level: 288
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Description: A child's very first word is a miraculous sound, the opening note in a lifelong symphony. Most parents never forget the moment. But that first word is soon followed by a second and a third, and by the age of three, children are typically learning ten new words every day and speaking in complete sentences. The process seems effortless, and for children, it is. But how exactly does it happen? How do children learn language? And why is it so much harder to do later in life? Drawing on cutting-edge developments in biology, neurology, psychology, and linguistics, Charles Yang's The Infinite Gift takes us inside the astonishingly complex but largely subconscious process by which children learn to talk and to understand the spoken word. Yang illuminates the rich mysteries of language: why French newborns already prefer the sound of French to English; why baby-talk, though often unintelligible, makes perfect linguistic sense; why babies born deaf still babble -- but with their hands; why the grammars of some languages may be evolutionarily stronger than others; and why one of the brain's earliest achievements may in fact be its most complex. Yang also puts forth an exciting new theory. Building on Noam Chomsky's notion of a universal grammar -- the idea that every human being is born with an intuitive grasp of grammar -- Yang argues that we learn our native languages in part by unlearning the grammars of all the rest. This means that the next time you hear a child make a grammatical mistake, it may not be a mistake at all; his or her grammar may be perfectly correct in Chinese or Navajo or ancient Greek. This is the brain's way of testing its options as it searches for the local and thus correct grammar -- and then discards all the wrong ones. And we humans, Yang shows, are not the only creatures who learn this way. In fact, learning by unlearning may be an ancient evolutionary mechanism that runs throughout the animal kingdom. Thus, babies learn to talk in much the same way that birds learn to sing. Enlivened by Yang's experiences with his own young son, The Infinite Gift is as charming as it is challenging, as thoughtful as it is thought-provoking. An absorbing read for parents, educators, and anyone who has ever wondered about the origins of that uniquely human gift: our ability to speak and, just as miraculous, to understand one another.
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Price: $15.00
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Sale: $15.00
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Manufacturer: Heinemann
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Marie M. Clay
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Publisher: Heinemann
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Dewey Decimal Number: 371
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Publication Date: 2007-11-12
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Reading Level: 56
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Price: $111.60
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Sale: $28.00
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Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Jean Berko Gleason
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Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Edition: 6
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Dewey Decimal Number: 401.93
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Publication Date: 2004-07-29
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: The sixth edition of The Development of Language, written and contributed by leading researchers, covers language acquisition and development from infancy through adulthood. This authoritative text is ideal for courses that take a developmental approach to language acquisition across the life span. The text thoroughly explores syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics. It examines atypical development, presents strong coverage of individual differences, describes how and why they occur, and provides contemporary references and the most recent research findings. The panel of expert authors provides students with cutting-edge research knowledge in an interesting and highly readable format. The emphasis on change over the life span is even more important now than when the text was originally published, since it reinforces current developments in cognitive neuroscience that indicate language, once acquired, is not static, but rather, undergoes constant neural reorganization.
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Price: $88.40
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Sale: $23.95
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Manufacturer: Allyn & Bacon
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Robert E. Owens
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Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Edition: 5
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Dewey Decimal Number: 401.93
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Publication Date: 2000-07-26
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Reading Level: 542
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Description: In recognition of the tremendous variation across children and language, the fifth edition of this readable book devotes much more space to individual developmental differences and cultural differences. Discussion of other cultures has been included wherever possible. In addition, the sections on bidialectalism and bilingualism have been expanded to reflect more accurately the realities of everyday life in the United States. Developed within a chronological framework, every aspect of syntax, morphology, semantics, phonology, and pragmatics is examined. For anyone interested in language development.
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Price: $12.00
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Sale: $3.99
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Manufacturer: Meadowbrook
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Laura Dyer
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Publisher: Meadowbrook
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Dewey Decimal Number: 401.93
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Publication Date: 2003-11-01
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Reading Level: 272
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Description: Based on the latest academic research, Laura Dyer has written the most comprehensive and practical book on the market to help parents enhance their child's language development. It covers pre-verbal signs and gestures and provides more information than any other book on: - How to nurture pre-literary skills - How to enhance speech and language skills from birth to age 7 - How reading to your child can enhance language development and literacy - How to use music to enhance language development - How to recognize warning signs of the most common language problems and what to do if you find them - What the effect of bilingualism is on language development and how to deal with the most common problems that arise
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