Blueprint Reading Basics


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A best selling text and self-training manual.




Reading Basics Advanced, Workbook


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Contemporary's Reading Basics is a TABE correlated series targeting toward the adult learner who needs to improve basic reading skills. This program provides detailed lessons through a Workbook and engaging stories and articles in the correlating Reader, allowing students to practice using the reading skills just learned. The Advanced level is aimed at TABE level "A" - reading levels 8.6 - 12.




Close Reading: The Basics


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Close reading is the most essential skill that literature students continue to develop across the full length of their studies. This book is the ideal guide to the practice, providing a methodology that can be used for poetry, novels, drama, and beyond. Using classic works of literature, such as Hamlet and The Great Gatsby as case studies, David Greenham presents a unique, contextual approach to close reading, while addressing key questions such as: What is close reading? What is the importance of the relationships between words? How can close reading enhance reading pleasure? Is there a method of close reading that works for all literary genres? How can close reading unlock complexity? How does the practice of close reading relate to other theoretical and critical approaches? Close Reading: The Basics is formulated to bring together reading pleasure and analytic techniques that will engage the student of literature and enhance their reading experience.




Reading Basics Intermediate 2, Reader SE


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"[This] program helps adult learners improve their skills in each of the four components of reading: alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary development, and comprehension."--Page 4 of cover.




Guided Reading Basics


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Provides a model for Guided Reading that can help teachers meet the varied needs of their K-3 students.




Baby Read-aloud Basics


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Shows you how to establish an effective daily read-aloud routine to take charge of your baby's future understanding and success.




How to Read a Paper


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How to Read a Paper describes the different types of clinical research reporting, and explains how to critically appraise the publications. The book provides the tools to find and evaluate the literature, and implement the findings in an evidence-based, patient-centered way. Written for anyone in the health care professions who has little or no knowledge of evidence-based medicine, it provides a clear understanding of the concepts and how to put them into practice at the basic, clinical level. Changes for the 4th edition The fourth edition will include two new chapters on important developments in health care research and delivery, but otherwise retains its original style, size, and scope. New chapter on quality improvement – describing papers on quality improvement projects using ebm methods; this will extend the readership to non clinical health care professionals working in hospitals and family practice, and to nurse specialists and practice nurses working in this field New chapter on complex interventions - how to set up research projects involving both qualitative and quantitative methodology (known as mixed methods) Thorough revision and updating of existing chapters and references New illustrations – diagrammatic representations of ebm concepts




How to Read a Paper


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Required reading in many medical and healthcare institutions, How to Read a Paper is a clear and wide-ranging introduction to evidence-based medicine and healthcare, helping readers to understand its central principles, critically evaluate published data, and implement the results in practical settings. Author Trisha Greenhalgh guides readers through each fundamental step of inquiry, from searching the literature to assessing methodological quality and appraising statistics. How to Read a Paper addresses the common criticisms of evidence-based healthcare, dispelling many of its myths and misconceptions, while providing a pragmatic framework for testing the validity of healthcare literature. Now in its sixth edition, this informative text includes new and expanded discussions of study bias, political interference in published reports, medical statistics, big data and more. Offers user-friendly guidance on evidence-based healthcare that is applicable to both experienced and novice readers Authored by an internationally recognised practitioner and researcher in evidence-based healthcare and primary care Includes updated references, additional figures, improved checklists and more How to Read a Paper is an ideal resource for healthcare students, practitioners and anyone seeking an accessible introduction to evidence-based healthcare.




Basic Blueprint Reading


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Snow Babies


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From skating puma cubs to sliding penguins, discover how these animals survive in freezing temperatures, what they eat and how they play. It's all inside