No Boring Practice, Please! Funny Fairy Tale Proofreading: Highly Motivating Practice Pages-Based on Favorite Folk and Fairy Tales-That Reinforce Proofreading … Punctuation, Capitalization, and Grammar (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on November 21, 2009

These super-engaging reproducible pages give kids proofreading practice in spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and grammar. Each activity offers a humorous twist on a folk or fairy tale to boost students’ interest. Plus, they’ll enjoy a variety of formats such as fractured tales, diary entries, poems, letters, and much more. Includes an answer key. For use with Grades 3–4.

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Your Attention Please: How to Appeal to Today’s Distracted, Disinterested, Disengaged, Disenchanted, and Busy Consumer (Paperback)

Posted by qpen on October 10, 2009

From Publishers Weekly
Keep it “Short. Simple. Sweet,” Brown (Customers for Life) and Davis, an employee communication consultant, advise business professionals in this cheery but disheartening primer on reaching an American public suffering from “brain overload” and “attention deficit trait.” The authors’ recommendation: treat every potential reader or viewer like a restless teenager. There’s plenty of commonsense advice—keep information easy to digest, break up communications in (more…)