Pre-reading Skills is a series of graded activity books in which Scamp the dog helps young children to make sense of print by looking at picture cues & sequencing stories. Book 4
Includes:: finger tracking (pointing) across the page using pictures to tell a story rhyming words alliteration (words beginning with the same letter sound) matching two-letter words.
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Help your child become a Premier student! Premier English provides complete curriculum coverage in an accessible easy to use format. The school curriculum is broken down into essential topics & each topic is covered in a self-contained unit. Understanding is consolidated & extended by further more challenging activities. * Examples given to demonstrate each topic * Clear explanations & plenty of practice * Flashcards included to aid further learning & revision ...

This text is an anthology containing stories by writers such as Defoe Swift Dickens Gaskell & Hardy. The book provides opportunities for comparisons between texts & should stimulate coursework. The stories are complete & unabridged & have been selected to enable readers to compare different writing styles & enjoy a rich variety of language. ...

The second psychological thriller from No 1 bestselling Swedish crime sensation Camilla Lackberg. In the fishing community of Fjallbacka life is remote peaceful
- & for some tragically short. Foul play was always suspected in the disappearance twenty years ago of two young holidaymakers in the area. Now a young boy out playing has confirmed this grim truth. Their remains discovered with those of a fresh victim send the town into shock. Local detective Patrik Hedstrom expecting a baby with his girlfriend Erica can only imagine what it is like to lose a child. When a second young girl goes missing Hedstrom's attention focuses on the Hults a feuding clan of misfits relgious fanatics & criminals. The suspect list is long but time is short
- which of this family's dark secrets will provide the vital clue?

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Written by GARTH ENNIS Art by STEVE DILLON PETER SNEJBJERG CARLOS EZQUERRA & RICHARD CASE Cover by GLENN FABRY For the first time in hardcover this title collects the story of Jesse Custers ultimate battle with the Saint of Killers & the forces of Starr
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- originally presented in PREACHER 34-40. Also included: the PREACHER SPECIAL: ONE MANS WAR PREACHER SPECIAL: THE STORY OF YOU-KNOW-WHO & PREACHER SPECIAL: THE GOOD OLD BOYS starring Starr Arseface & Jody & T.C. the evil bastards of Angelville who haunted the Preachers childhood.

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Merging with a bizarre spiritual force called Genesis Texan Preacher Jesse Custer becomes completely disillusioned with the beliefs that he had dedicated his entire life to. Now possessing the power of the word " an ability to make people do whatever he utters Custer begins a violent & riotous journey across the country. Joined by his gun-toting girlfriend Tulip & the hard drinking Irish vampire Cassidy the Preacher loses faith in both man & God as he witnesses dark atrocities & improbable calamities during his exploration of America." ...

A highly practical book on how to preach effectively This is a book for all preachers (of any denomination) be they ordained or readers students preparing for a preaching ministry or lay-people called on to preach from time to time. Anyone who preaches knows how much help is needed within preaching because this form of communication is a demanding & difficult one. This workbook provides just the help people must have. In his introduction David Day describes the ambivalence in churches about preaching. He goes on to help preachers construct & deliver sermons that draw the practice closer to the high theology we hold of the sermon as the 'word of God'. David Day believes that the best & most effective preaching is biblical & several chapters focus on how to draw our message authentically from scripture. He also gives plenty of practical help on the craft of preaching. & in doing so he is brave enough to expose some of his own sermons as examples of good or (occasionally) bad practice as well as sermons from fifty or so preachers who are equally brave in offering their own efforts. ...

Many of us remember with pleasure Hilaire Belloc's humorous & piquant Cautionary Tales". Ever popular since publication in 1940 the moral poems were supposedly for children
- but with their satirical reflections on the state of the nation & the human condition were also enjoyed by adults. Inspired by the prose & poetry of Belloc James Muirden has penned these whimsical & well-observed Precautionary Tales to amuse grandparents & perhaps their grandchildren too & impart some moral guidance in today's world. Read about Matilda who was too truthful to be successful in business & John who lost at conkers & gained his father some useful publicity. Whether you grew up reading Belloc or not this compilation of wit in verse is guaranteed to leave you smiling
- & may even teach you a valuable lesson or two."

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Where are you from? is a question I always find hard to answer. 1971: an ad in Nursery World. Private foster parents required for a three-month-old baby
- me. The lucky applicants are a 57-year-old white woman & her daughter who love babies especially black babies. My mother arrives a haughty Nigerian woman in a convertible with a moses basket on the seat beside her setting the net curtains in this all-white council estate twitching. & though the whole place makes my privileged mothers skin crawl she returns to London with an empty basket beside her choosing this home for me because unusually for the estate my foster mother talks proper & Ill need a posh white accent for the bright future I have ahead of me. Ill cling on to that idea
- that Ive a bright future ahead of me
- even though theres nothing in my upbringing to warrant it. Even though my mothers love consists of long absences confusing behaviour & dauntingly high expectations. Even though my foster mothers love is overwhelming & suffocating. Even though I seem to be a magnet for abusive sexual attention from men I barely know. Even though the authorities have no idea where to put me or where I belong & nor really do I. & even when I fall pregnant at eighteen & find myself back in the rural town Id tried to escape from with a tiny baby dependent on me I still think the futures out there. Ill find it whatever it takes. Precious" is the story of growing up black in a white community of struggling to find an identity that fits amid conflicting messages of deciphering a childhood full of secrets & dysfunction. Painfully honest swerving from farce to tragedy " Precious" has a spirit that refuses to be crushed."


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Well before Precious Ramotswe founded her Number One Ladies' Detective Agency as an eight-year-old girl she was already solving mysteries. Here in this delightful enchanting tale for children we find out just who has been stealing her schoolfriends' snacks & how the young Precious became the crafty & intuitive private investigator we all know & love! ...