Look up at a tree, and take a journey back through time imagining how the world has changed around it. Explore how trees help humans - from the boats of early explorers, to how they can improve our wellbeing. Readerful is designed to motivate children to read more. This Book for Sharing is for a teacher to read aloud to pupils in Year 2/P3.
Cosmo the kitten is in trouble. He's taken Mega Merle's costume and now the Gerbilator is after him. He needs Mega Merle, but can Merle save the day without his costume? Readerful is designed to motivate children to read more. This Independent Library book is for pupils aged 6 to 7 in Y2/P3 at Oxford Reading Level 12 to read without support.
Focusing on the pragmatics of online discourse, this book explores how language and communication are utilized and interpreted in digital contexts. It serves as a vital resource for professionals in digital pragmatics, language and media, as well as those studying English language, linguistics, and communication. The insights provided are essential for understanding behavior in digitally mediated environments.
Pragmatics - the study of language in context - is a key topic within English language and linguistics. This book introduces the core topics in the field, taking readers from basic principles to an understanding of key theories and approaches, including speech acts, Grice, politeness, relevance theory, metaphor, and irony.
A new analysis of how speakers and writers use referring expressions in discourse, and how hearers and readers interpret them. Using the established relevance-theoretic pragmatic framework, the book focuses on how speakers and writers achieve stylistic and poetic effects via their choice of referring expression.
Project X CODE is a book-by-book series built for struggling readers aged 6 and above. Welcome to Micro World, invented by Macro Marvel - an amazing theme park where you have to shrink to get in! Disaster struck when CODE, the computer that controlled the park and the robots inside, went wrong and started shrinking everyone. A year later, with the park about to relaunch, things go wrong again! Team X must return to help Mini Marvel with another mission - to avoid the malfunctioning BITEs, reset the zones, and find the park's new engineer Ace! In this book, Team X and Mini find out about the Mino-BITE - just in time!
Project X CODE Extra introduces more exciting adventure stories and fascinating non-fiction texts into the Project X CODE series. Get lost in the twists, turns and dead ends of different mazes in this Maze Craze non-fiction book.
"Stephen Hawking was a physicist, cosmologist and author who made the study of the universe understandable to everyone. From his studies at Cambridge university, to the diagnosis of his motor neurone disease, to his winning the Presidential Medal of Freedom, read about the life of the man who is known the world over for his incredible contribution to science and the world in this beautifully illustrated book with real-life stories, timelines and facts."--Provided by publisher
James Bond never had to dress up as a girl . . .Spies-in-training Joe and Sam have one last mission to complete before Joe's family is moved on and Joe can finally ditch the dresses and stop pretending to be 'Josie'. They have to handle a series of top-secret collections using their growing stealth skills - not to mention the latest gadgets from HQ - it's perfect! At least, it is until Joe's spy mum is put in danger and needs an urgent body double . . . Joe's disguise is about to become a lot taller! Can he walk in high heels well enough - and learn what it means to not only be a spy, but also a parent - to fool the enemies and save his family from discovery?