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Internalize all words in each English pattern in minutes with a short story. All ages, all levels, at home, or at school! 100+ illustrated stories; complete word lists; exhaustive teacher notes; fill-in-the-blank stories; and optional reinforcement activities. English Phonics Stories© is designed to illustrate, facilitate, and accelerate the mastery of phonetics and phonics, reading, spelling, pronunciation, and vocabulary. By isolating each sound/spelling pattern and providing engaging but extensive exposure to all those words, this comprehensive resource provides the necessary the bridge between phonics instruction and the word memorization needed to apply those concepts wi ...

Designed for middle school students, this reference book explains concepts of grammar and writing in simple and clear language. Its topics are arranged alphabetically for ease of use. It also contains a handy glossary of terms.

“Words, Phrases and Passages” is a collection of Tolkien’s notes on the Quenya, Sindarin, Dwarvish, Rohirric and Black Speech examples occurring in “The Lord of the Rings,” with translations, grammatical explanations, and etymologies of the various words and names. The entries are arranged in the order the items occurred in the story. In many of these notes dating from 1955 to 1965 Tolkien reconsidered his original explanation of some words and names which led to revisions in the text of novel. Many of the words are traced to their etymological roots; and an index of these together with Tolkien’s own lists and explanations of basic Elvish elements is included. There is also an index ...

“Quenya Phonology” is an edition of three of J. R. R. Tolkien’s texts from the late 1930s to the 1950s. The “Comparative Tables” are a series of charts laying out the regular correspondences among the sounds of the languages Tolkien had invented, including Valarin, Quenya, Lindarin, Telerin, Noldorin, Ilkorin, Danian and Lemberin, as well as the Mannish language Taliskan.  There are charts for word-initial and medial consonants, consonant groups, and long vowels and diphthongs. The “Outline of Phonetic Development” is a detailed description of the historical changes that produced of the sounds of Quenya from the sounds of Primitive Eldarin, including the regular developments in word-in ...