I have been teaching in a private school for 20 years. I have been using this workbook since the beginning. It still holds up as the most solid workbook for language arts skills. My original teacher's edition is falling apart, but continues to be my most used workbook. Its approach is simple and straight-forward. It is easy for the students to understand and provides logical sequence of language arts skills. The children enjoy working from this book better than any of the other various publishers I use. I have used these practice pages for fourth graders through high school students. It is what the title says: Easy Grammar.

This book approaches teaching parts of speech and grammar by first introducing the preposition and prepositional phrase. Once the student can identify and eliminate the prepositional phrases in a sentence, determining the subject, verb and other parts of speech is then made much easier. I have found that going through this book with my children has helped improve my understanding of this complex subject.

Are you a language arts teacher? Do you want to be sure that you are teaching grammar, tenses, punctuation properly? Do you ever have questions about parts of speech, clauses? Methodically using this book will ensure that you are teaching the necessary conventions to enrich your students' writing. It is a book every intermediate teacher needs in his/her professional library.

I thoroughly enjoyed Ms. Hamlin's debut novel. Issues was a definite page-turner filled with many twists and turns. The characters featured in this novel are people that you can relate to - it's like you met them before or know people like them. I am so looking forward to Ms. Hamlin's next work!

I wasn't able to put the book down once I started reading it. It grabbed my attention immediately!! Great start for this up and coming author. This book keeps you guessing about what is going to happen with each chapter. Mahogany (the main character) is a very "busy" young women, to say the least. Buy this book and you will truly be entertained.

I applaud the author on her first self-published book..what an accomplishment! The title definitely describes the impromptu main character, Mahogany. However, she takes it to another level. This is not your typical novel. Characters are introduced that makes you wonder...what their story may be?? I enjoyed it and recommend it to all those fiction reading fanatics like me! Hope to see more from Ms. Hamlin!

When someone's work is usually referred to as visceral, the person doing the name-calling is usually referring to something ravagingly daring and unapologetic in the wor or the author's voice. In no other case is this more clear than in the work of Coleman. She strangles a common story's possible endings and finds the one most compelling one for her voice until it screams, and does so in fewer pages than most lauded authors. Her poems do this all the time, but her stories are gut-punches of the highest, most unforgiving literary tradition. The most astounding thing about her abilities is that she does so while not making the work trashy or for mere effect. Not for the meek of mind.

Wanda Coleman's "A War of Eyes and Other Stories" plunges the reader into some really sordid and/or tragic tales from urban African-American life. There is a lot of sex, profanity, and violence (with an emphasis on black-on-black violence). She also deals with such topics as gambling, illegal drugs, racial tension, and sexual dysfunction. The stories range from short 1- or 2-page character studies to the longest story, which is about 20 pages long. Throughout the book Coleman masterfully captures the rhythms of black vernacular English.

Some of the most vivid selections in the book are as follows: "Ladies," about an encounter between two black women, a professional counselor and a woman mired in poverty; "The Scream," a subtly horrific tale; "The Friday Night Shift at the Taco House Blues (Wah-Wah)," which is basically a slice from the life of an urban fast-food restaurant; and "Word Monkey," a richly ironic story about a black writer of the pimp-and-junky genre. But the most stunning story is the longest one, "Big Dreams," an intense study of a woman pursuing a dream.

With her raw, unapologetic style and subject matter, Coleman reminds me somewhat of Charles Bukowski, but her work is very much rooted in African-American female experience. But another author I would compare her to is Poe: many of Coleman's stories are truly horror stories. But her horror is not supernatural; rather, it is firmly rooted in urban reality, with its violence and socioeconomic pressure. Coleman is a writer from the edge whose work has real power.

This book came out a while ago. I read it and I thought, here's a writer as pure as James Purdy, as hip and relevant as Mary Gaitskill or Gary Indiana. Why haven't I heard of her? I thought she just did poetry. Many authors write books of short stories that are great, yet never have I read an author that has covered as much ground as Coleman in War of Eyes. I read it and I thought, how did she not lose her mind? What I love the most about her short stories is how they have many beats. So many things happen in one story you wonder how she gets from A to Z so flawlessly and so beautifully without any self consciousness. I hesitate to compare her to other black writers like Toni Morrison and Jamaica Kinkaid because she trancends their P.C. conceits so ferociously that she should only be compared to the greatest writers of all time, regardless of race. Wanda Coleman is FIERCE.

Vonnegut is typically bizarre. It's his style. In the books of his I've read I notice a lot of fiddle-diddling around until the last 30 pages of the book. Happy Birthday, Wanda June isn't quite like that. I found it to be a kind of... portrait of the stereotypical Americans. First of all, there's the mother, Penelope, who lives an insipid existence with her son and two suitors -- she doesn't do much, and has little character (as most Vonnegut women do). Her son, Paul, is pressured into growing into a chauvinist, like Herb Shuttle, one of Penelope's suitors. Herb is a prolific athlete who knows nothing of science or any form of literature other than Sports Illustrated. Norbert Woodly is a "hippie-ish" doctor who plays the violin, and is Penelope's other suitor -- to say the least, Woodly and Shuttle despise each other. Penelope's house is filled with animal skins and taxadermy creatures her husband, Harold, killed while scrounging through various jungles (Woodly: Throw out all this junk. Burn it! This room crawls with tropical disease.), along with jungle-theme doorbells they aparently acquired from Abercrombie and Fitch.

It's a short play, quite darling, and full of enlightening perspectives (mainly in the arguments between Woodly and Harold or Shuttle). By the end, it leaves you looking at people in a different light, wondering under which category-of-character-persona they would fit under.

This has to be one of the most interesting plays I've ever read! I am currently doing a monolouge from the play, Wanda June's, and I believe that the characters is this play are absolutely hilarious! What kind of genius would put an happy and slightly dumb half-witted ex-bomber, a dead 10-year old girl who was killed by a drunk ice-cream truck driver, a talented violinist-doctor, and a animal hunting, taxadermy-happy explorer into one brilliant play? I give it 6 out of 5 stars!

hello there, lovers of vonnegut!! i am currently playing penelope ryan in a high school production of "wanda june," and i simply do not have enough wonderful things to say about this play. to start with, it's absolutely hilarious. and for theater snobs like me, this is quite possibly the most difficult character i have yet come across. vonnegut has mentioned that he has had trouble writing women's roles.....and this is absolutely the most complex and interesting female i have seen in his work. he does a great deal of experimenting here, it's fascinating. not mentioning the vonnegut style brought to my favorite creative outlet...oh joy! oh rapture! i could go on for many more pages, but i suppose i'll just leave with that. go read. now.

Island Murders can take you to the Carolina beaches and flowing intracoastal waterway in a heartbeat. Ms. Canada brings us a strong Southern girl as the main character and envelopes her in more trouble than a soul deserves. An overall great read.

Wanda Canada made her characters come alive. They interacted so believably, I thought I knew them. It was a fun read. I knew who the bad guy was, but there were still lots of twists and turns.

This book is one of the best mysteries I have ever read! It grabs you by the second page with murders and mysterious characters everywhere. There are constantly more twists being thrown at you. Once you pick this book up you can't put it down. If you like mysteries, and even if you don't, I would recommend this book.

Not to burst anyones bubble but this book is a novel... and while many maintain it's based on the author's TRUE experiences I'm here to tell you that the big climax, the birth of her son, is totally bogus.

1.] Martha MARTIN is the pen name of Helen MULLEN. Helen isn't even her real name as she chose to drop her given name of Orpha Myrtle. She was the first wife of my grandfather, Clyde L DeVOL. They were married 30 July 1914 in Pueblo Co CO and divorced 7 September 1925 in Cook Co IL. They had lived apart apart since 1918. Clyde came home on a "surprise" leave from the navy [WWI] and, as he put it, "found her in bed" with another man.

2.] Their son Clyde E. DeVOL was indeed born in a log cabin but it was hardly in the "wilds" of Alaska. He was born 23 May 1915 at his grandfather's summer cabin in Iron Co MO. This nearly 10 years before his mother ever set foot in Alaska.

A well written and gripping NOVEL, perhaps. Based on reality, hardly.

I just finished this book an hour ago and it is truely wonderful. I started it yesterday and stopped only to sleep and go to work. It is a truely captivating story. If you love the wilderness, strong women or tangible spirituality you can grab hold of...this is the book for you. I can't say I have enjoyed a book more in a very, very long time.

I really have enjoyed this book. It is spell binding. Now I am reading her next book "Home in the Bear's Domain". I would highly recommend this book to anyone.

If you are interested in the Texes cheerleading story this is
the book for you. It gives you lots of details . It is worth buying.I give this book 5 stars.

This book was definitely worth it! The book is beautifully written and Maier captures the essence of this fascinating trial. I would recommend anyone with any interest in the case--or in true crime books for that matter--to buy this book! Enjoy!

I hope to see many more excelent books like this one. I do not think they could have done any better on this book, and I incourage them to write many more!

The step by step lessons are very useful and will be of great help to anyone trying to implement WRTR at home. However, some of the material is not as organized as it could be, which makes some of the lessons a bit difficult to follow. There is certainly room for improvement in future editions. Nevertheless, this book is a good investment.

Mrs. Sanseri has done teachers (especially those of us who homeschool) a great favor by making phonics instruction in the Spaulding method accessable to everyone. My daughter started this program at 5 years old, and within months she was reading at a second grade level! Her penmanship is also very pretty, and she looked forward to new spelling words every week. We also tried "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons" and found it was too simple for my 5-year-old, but perfect for my 3 year old who wasn't ready to hold a pencil yet. Buy both books (especially if you have more than one child) and determine what kind of instruction your child best responds to.

I was first trained in the Spaulding Method about 20 years ago. With the new understanding of phonics and phonemic processing as essential to good reading skills, it provides and excellent, inexpensive introduction to reading instruction for those unfamiliar with the phonics approach.

I read this book because it was a bookclub selection. I thought I was just being critical when I read it, but I found out members of the bookclub had many of my same thoughts. I wonder if this was personal, from things I heard about the author. I felt as though being single was one of the worse things that one could be. I found the assumption that all we want to do is trap or have sex with the pastor, deacons or bishop very disheartening. Some of the statements made in the book were so off the wall, I just wondered if they were made because it was something that happened in the author's life personally. If so, then they should not have been made as general statements. Yes, there were some parts that I could relate to in the book. The book made for a good discussion hence the 3 stars.

I found sex traps to be a very frank look at sex and christians. Mrs. Davis don't beat around the bush, she tell's it like it is. She in brings up loose tongues when women describes to much about about their mate with other women. One point I liked that she brought out is that, when you insult someone, God dosen't like it because he created everyone, so even thinking bad about someone is being bad. A good book for everyone to read.

Sex Traps is a blessing. Sister Davis-Turner is blunt and to the point. She brings up things that many of us are are still trying to ignore and does it in a fearless way. This book is excellent for both the singles, and marrieds. It's for the layperson and for the minister. I really believe reading this book will change and save lives...