Thursday, October 22, 2009

This book is a BIG help.

I just can't stop myself to read, read and even to read more. In a day, I laid much time reading. As a matter of fact, I read almost 8 hours a day. I find pleasures in reading. It makes me alert and open-minded. My difficulty which I find in reading is being able to encounter difficult words. Words that are ambiguous and are figurative. Fortunately, with the help of the New World Dictionary of the American Language Second Concise Edition, I am able to comprehend what I read. This dictionary is indeed an unleasher! Ian reading with great sense and understanding.

Webster's New World Dictionary of the American language, Second Concise Edition covers a Guide to the Use of the Dictionary, Abbreviations and Symbols Used in this Dictionary and a Dictionary of the American Language. It has also a Table of Alphabets in English, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Russian and German translations.

Actually, this book is given by my uncle when I was 20 years old (during my tertiary years) as I was in 2nd year College of those times. That is why, it looks old with much teared parts. Actually, for my long years of using this dictionary, the cover gave up its services. it was totally teared. But no matter it looks old, the learning I've gain and learned from this helpful book is worth a lifetime.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Enhancing Basic Research and Writing Skills by Ferdilyn C. Lacia et.al

Writing is my life. It is my passion. It is what I love. I have found pleasures of the world of expressing one's inner thoughts and opinions through making compositions and publications. I successfully achieve what I want through writing using the points of learning and mastering how to write well using this book. Frankly, when I was still a kid, I have a poor English. In fact, I hate English. It was in my tertiary years that I love exploring and learning about the subject. Most of the things that I have learned comes from the points of this book entitled Enhancing Basic Research and Writing Skills by Ferdilyn C. Lacia and Mark G. Fabella, ED.D. Most of the topics of this book where as follows:

Reading and Writing Clear Paragraphs, Reading and Writing Various Types of Paragraph Development, Producing Clear Sentence in a Paragraph, Reading and Writing Texts in the Social Sciences, Reading and Writing Texts in the Physical Sciences, Writing a Research Paper and Data-gathering through an Interview and a Questionnaire.

I have learned all them. The book sharpens me. And it made using English for me such a pleasure.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Printice Hall's Grammar and Composition Book

I am learning the right English grammar and some composition techniques with the use of this book, Printice Hall's Grammar and Composition (Book). I remember, when I was in my tertiary years especially during my sophomore years, my teacher really adviced us to buy this book because we are going to use it for the rest of the semester.

Frankly, this book helps a lot with my skills in learning proper English. When I was in my elementary years, I hate English and I find it too difficult to understand learning the subject. It took me more years to fully understand its scope and its vital techniques from subject-verb agrement to basic sentence patten.

Now, I can say with much pride that I am having the right skill that could help me express what I feel in the form of making various compositions with the right tool in English.

In this book, it speaks about these following topics:

Grammar Usage Mechanics - Nouns, Pronouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Prepositions, Conjunctions and Interjections

Basic Sentence Parts and Patterns - The Sentence, Subject and Verbs, Compound Subjects and Compound Verbs, Hard-to-Find Subjects, Direct Objects, Indirect Objects, Objective Complement, Subject Complement, Basic Sentence Pattern, Diagramming Basic Sentence Pattern.

Phrases - Prepositional Phrases, Appositive and Appositive Phrases, Participles and Participial Phrases, Gerunds and Gerund Phrases, Infinitive and Infinitive Phrases, Diagramming Phrases.

Clauses - Ajective Clauses, Adverb Clauses, Noun Clauses, Sentence Classified by Structure and Function, Diagramming Clauses.

Avoiding Sentence Errors - Fragments, Run-ons, Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers

Verb Usage - Verb Tenses, Expressing Time through Tense, Active and Passive Voice

Pronoun Usage - The Cases of Pronouns, Special Problems with Pronouns

Agreement - Subject - Verb Agreement, Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement

Adjective and Adverb Usage - Degree of Comparison, Clear Comparison

Miscellaneous Problems in Usage - Negative Sentences, Fifty Common Usage Problem

Mechanics - Capitalization and Abbreviation, Rules for Abbreviation

Punctuation - End Marks, Commas that Separate Basic Elements, Commas that Set Off Added Elements, The Semicolon and the Colon, Quotation Marks with Direct Quotations, Underlining and Other Uses of Quotation Marks, Dashes and Parentheses, The Hyphen, The Apostrophe

Monday, October 5, 2009

Principles and Method of Teaching by Gregorio


This book, Principles and Method of Teaching by Gregorio, often the book I used in college especially in our Education subject. I find this book very beneficial because it provides wide information and vital techniques and strategies in teaching.

The Meaning and Importance of Principles in Teaching, The Starting Principles of Teaching and Learning, The Goal Principles of Teaching and Learning, Psychological Bases of the Learning Process, The Basic Principles of Learning, The Use of Motivation in Teaching and in Learning, Lesson Planning in Teaching, Accepted Educational Concepts Basic to Modern Teaching, The Guiding Principles and Methods of Teaching, Principles Underlying Drill and Review Methods, The Technique of Teaching, Principles Underlying Assignment of Lessons, Principles of Transfer of Learning as used in Teaching, Principles of Individual Differences Essential to Teaching and Training, Evaluating the Results of Teaching and Learning, Principles underlying Classroom Management and Discipline, Teacher and His Profession, Educators and the Educational Process, Code of Professional Ethics for Teachers and School Officials and The Magna Carta for Public School Teachers are some of the important topics that this book has tackled.

Having this book is like you are in the real world of classroom instructions with children and learning are there.