A great tutor at your fingertips!
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John Truby is a great tutor for writers. I followed his seminar and learned a.o.t. about the necessity of outlining your story and about mixing different genres. With this book you have the tutor always at your fingertips.
4051358
I needed to brush up on Microsoft Office.  I really enjoyed the tutorial. It is easy to understand, its time saving  material makes this course real convenient for someone that doesn't want to go to a classroom.  Lessons can be taken at your own pace. I got my money's worth, and I really recomend it.
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Let me first start by saying that my piano knowledge has been limited to playing simple melodies and rhythms and that anything beyond that was out of my skill level. In 3 days, I can now play simple songs with BOTH hands and it's becoming easier to play increasingly harder songs! The lessons are very easy to digest and you can easily complete several lessons in one day.
As far as the videos go, they are very sweet, short and to the point, which is very helpful because I would rather focus on the lesson material rather than be distracted by pointless information. The instructor in the videos is very clear and concise on what you should and how you should do it. I'm not sure why I didn't purchase this book sooner, but I will be recommending this to all of my musical friends!
3079973
Superb book! Amazing tool for self taught learners (and probably for teaching a class as well)!
1756653
I'm a tutor for a 4th grader who used to count on her fingers for the simplest problems. I decided to fix this problem, and researched to find a book to help me. I came across this one and ordered it during summer break. So since August of last year, I've had my student to do 2 pages, front and back, of this book per session as a lesson starter. I also give her the same amount for homework. It started off simple, and now even with the larger problems, she gets through quickly in about 15 minutes or less.  Because of this, she does not use her fingers for any math problems anymore. Great book! I'm sad to almost be done with it!
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I was thrilled when getting this book for the mere fact it provided a hands on use of actual data files to practice the techniques and skills being taught. The layout of the book is easy and enjoyable to follow along with. Steps for each lesson are explained in detail with a quiz at the end of each chapter to practice what you learned. A very user friendly learning experience and I highly recommend it as a reference and learning tool for anyone's Excel library.  Thank you Mr. Smart -- I look forward to future books!

Bon
SoCal Calif
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This is a great book! Very useful with the video lessons that go along with it!
4551200
Estelle Liebling, teacher of Beverly Sills and Rockwell Blake, obviously knows what she is talking about! The book is simple to use and very helpful. Tons of explanations, examples, warmups, etc. 5/5!
548166
I run an after school tutoring program and this book has been very useful to me! I used the charts to help give the kids some structure on how to plan for the writing tasks. I especially liked how the book explained the types of questions that would be asked.
1594835
As a teacher, this is my new favorite primer! It's easy, and fun, to teach from - the lessons are clear, and have plenty of learning activities for on and off the bench. I have a 7 year old student in the book, and she loves the characters, retains the lessons, and enjoys playing the games (over and over again!). It's worth mentioning again that the support from the composers and their facebook group and webpage for teachers is an amazing companion resource to the books. Absolutely highly recommended!
876599
I really like this product (even if it does mean that I have homework!). It is easy to use, you can get help, access the online e-book, and do practice problems to help you better understand the material.
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We love this book!  We have learned more about grammar by doing sentence diagramming than in the past just doing grammar daily, year after year.  The "Beginning" level is a must for learning the basics before tackling this 2nd book in the series.  If I could change one thing, I would request more practice pages... and I have discovered the secret to making "your own sentences" that the book calls for... they give sample sentences in the back that can be used.  Overall, I'd recommend this book and use it again for my next student.
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This book focuses on strategies to cognitively engage students in lessons, to keep a pulse of how much students are grasping the concepts, and promotes higher level thinking skills.  There are lengthy choices of strategies explained simply and succinctly making it easy to find something to add to your teacher toolbox immediately.  I have been in the classroom for 9 years and I found many new ideas that I can use, along with many that I already use.  If you are a new teacher then this is a must read, as it will put a host of ideas at your fingertips quickly and improve your lessons immeasurably. Veteran teachers also would benefit as the probability is high that there are a variety of strategies or activities that you would be able to add in to your day as well.  The activities cross over nicely for all content areas, and further may be used from elementary through high school easily. It is not a very long book overall, 125 pages, and a super quick read.  This is well worth the price!  I likely would not have bought the book originally- it came as a member benefit from my ASCD membership.  Very glad that it was sent along through the membership, as I will be using many ideas from the book :)
1056190
Strunk & White's "The Elements of Style" is a wonderful book, and it is great for learning grammar, in that it is witty and demonstrates the rules of grammatical and compositional style in a way comprehensible to human beings. It has great examples and is able to show students what to do by telling them what *not* to do! It is easy to carry around, and is so concise, that you should be able to read it in two hours, at the most. If you talk or communicate in any way, this book will most certainly be useful for you!
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This textbook provides step-by-step guidance for students who may not even have a clue what to do. Not only is clarification given to lower level students but also opportunities to advance the knowledge of those who are already familiar with the material. The SkillBuilder problems in the chapters allowed me to deepen my knowledge about each topic presented. These are set up so that they increase in difficulty as you advance through the problem. If you are unsure about purchasing this book, I would highly recommend that you do!
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As a 4th grade teacher, I've been looking for a book with exercises that will help my students with their writing - something with short, easy to digest information, and something that will allow them to write just a paragraph (as opposed to 1-2 pages).  I think this book looks to be the ticket.  I've not used it yet, but the components are all there.  There are 18 lessons, each containing tips for the teacher, 2 paragraph rewrite challenges, and a "before" and "after" example, which I really like.  The "before" shows what students typically write before employing the recommendations of the tips, and the "after" example shows how the example could be written when using the tips.  Some of the lessons include: repairing run-on sentences, giving specific information, beginning with unusual facts, and using active verbs.
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I am a Math tutor, and I reach for this book all of the time as a quick reference.  The examples are concise on half a page with a few questions to solidify.  I use lots of books as tutoring couorse books, but this is my handy desk reference for systems of equations, imaginary numbers, rational numbers, and logarithms.