Background
Marvin Terban was born in Massachusetts and got his start as an author with a book that he wrote and drew in the first grade about a fuzzy green dragon.
(Dozens and dozens of fun, attention-getting practice page...)
Dozens and dozens of fun, attention-getting practice pages help students in grades 3-6 along the path to becoming more confident writers and readers. This book provides exactly the repeated practice students need to hone essential grammar, usage, and mechanics skills. Topics include parts of speech, punctuation, overused words, and much more. Flexible and easy to use-for homework or in school. Also a great way to boost vocabularies! For use with Grades 3-6.
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( If you think idioms are a "tough nut to crack," pick up...)
If you think idioms are a "tough nut to crack," pick up the revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS. Fun new design and more than 700 common American phrases, sayings, and expressions. Cat got your tongue? Penny for your thoughts? Come again? Every day, idioms bring color to our speech. Since they don't really mean what they say, idioms can stump even the native English-speaker. Marvin Terban makes understanding idioms "as easy as pie" with the revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF IDIOMS. Explanations for, and origins of, more than 700 everyday American idioms, complete with kid-friendly sample sentences. The entries are amusing as well as educational. Alphabetical listing and cross-referencing index makes finding idioms a "piece of cake."
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(Offers readers the chance to create their own homographs,...)
Offers readers the chance to create their own homographs, words spelled the same but pronounced differently, in more than seventy tricky riddle sentences. Reissue.
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Terban, Marvin - Eight ate: A feast of homonym riddles / Przdnik omonimov-zagadok. Publisher: Clarion books, Place: New York, Year: 2007 yr., Pages: 64 pp.. Paperback
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(This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writi...)
This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writing before someone else reads it. Includes: Parts of Speech; Irregular Nouns and Verbs; The 100 Most Commonly Confused and Misused Words; What Makes a Good Sentence; Capitalization; Contractions Compound Words; Idioms; Abbreviations; Punctuation, Spelling; and Acronyms.
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( The best-selling grammar guide gets a fresh, new cover ...)
The best-selling grammar guide gets a fresh, new cover design for Fall 2002. This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writing before someone else reads it. Parts of speech * Irregular nouns and verbs The 100 Most Commonly Confused and Misused Words What Makes a Good Sentence Capitalization * Contractions * Compound Words * Idioms Abbreviations * Punctuation * Spelling * Acronyms
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( This collection of original riddles is unlike any other...)
This collection of original riddles is unlike any other because the main words in each answer sound exactly alike, but have different meanings. Zany illustrations add to the fun and provide clues to the solutions. And the newly designed full-color cover makes the package even more appealing. So dig in--and see why you should play with your words (not with your food)!
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(Terban, Marvin - Too hot to hoot: Funny palindrome riddle...)
Terban, Marvin - Too hot to hoot: Funny palindrome riddles / Zamechatel'nye palindromy-zagadki. Publisher: Clarion books, Place: New York, Year: 2007 yr., Pages: 64c. Paperback
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( The revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF SPELLING has been ...)
The revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF SPELLING has been updated with 1,000 new words and an all-new design that will make it the choice for young writers to turn to for an instant spell-check. With a brand new design, 1,000 additional words, and new fun sections like "The Four Longest Words in the English Language" and "The Spelling Words That Made Kids Champions," this is the perfect spelling resource for students. The introduction gives instructions for looking up a word the reader does not necessarily know how to spell, offers more than 150 memory tricks to correct commonly misspelled words, and clearly explains general spelling rules (and their exceptions). Furthermore, to aid pronunciation, each word is divided into syllables with the accented syllable in boldface.
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( An introduction to six common figures of speech -- meta...)
An introduction to six common figures of speech -- metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and hyperbole -- with guidelines for their use and numerous illustrative examples.
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(This collection of original riddles is unlike any other b...)
This collection of original riddles is unlike any other because the main words in each answer sound exactly alike, but have different meanings. Zany illustrations add to the fun and provide clues to the solutions. And the newly designed full-color cover makes the package even more appealing. So dig in--and see why you should play with your words (not with your food)!
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(This guide to idioms provides the student with an opportu...)
This guide to idioms provides the student with an opportunity to bring color to their speech every day. Included are idioms from Native American and African American speech as well as the Bible, Aesop, and Shakespeare.
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( Puncuation Power, the newest paperback Scholastic Guide...)
Puncuation Power, the newest paperback Scholastic Guide, is a guide to all of the punctuation 8 to 14-year-olds (and most adults) need. It uses a clever format that is fun and informative. Knowing how to puncuate sentences properly is a skill that can help any writer communicate more clearly. PUNCTUATION POWER presents kids with the information they need to become better punctuators. Terban's voice is both energetic and fun. Now available in paperback, this guide can be put in school bags and brought to school, the library, or anywhere else a child would need it.
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( BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY, the newest addition to the Sc...)
BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY, the newest addition to the Scholastic Guide series, is an essential resource that provides children with skills they need in order to approach and learn new vocabulary words. Using language arts standards from states around the nation as a guide, BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY familiarizes kids with word origins, word parts, context clues, synonyms and antonyms, and other critical skills. Rather than a book of vocabulary lists to memorize, this title gives kids tools they can use throughout their lives. Kids will discover that English is made up of words from many different languages. They'll also find out about eponyms--people and places that become words. Next students will discover the meanings of common prefixes, suffixes, and roots so that they can approach new words more confidently. There are also sections on homonyms, word families, shades of meaning, dictionaries, and thesauruses. All in a fun and entertaining format.
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(Publication Date: August 1, 1994 | Age Level: 8 and up | ...)
Publication Date: August 1, 1994 | Age Level: 8 and up | Series: Scholastic Guides The best-selling grammar guide gets a fresh, new cover design for Fall 2002. This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writing before someone else reads it. Parts of speech * Irregular nouns and verbs The 100 Most Commonly Confused and Misused Words What Makes a Good Sentence Capitalization * Contractions * Compound Words * Idioms Abbreviations * Punctuation * Spelling * Acronyms
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Marvin Terban was born in Massachusetts and got his start as an author with a book that he wrote and drew in the first grade about a fuzzy green dragon.
Columbia University; Tufts University.
Called a "master of children"s wordplay" by American Library Association Booklist and "Mr. English for Kids" by the Children"s Book-of-the-Month Club, he has written over 35 books for young readers, most of them about the English language. He is Scholastic"s "Professor Grammar."
His first real writing job was a weekly column for his local newspaper when he was in high school.
He was also the editor of his high school newspaper and literary magazine.
He went to Tufts and Columbia Universities, where he received bachelor"s and master"s degrees respectively. Foreign many years, he has taught English, Latin, Public Speaking, Computer, Theater, and other subjects at the Columbia Grammar and Preparatory School on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City.
Early in his teaching career, Terban took a break to produce audio-visual educational programs for children at the New York City public television station and Columbia Broadcasting System. Returning to the classroom with renewed energy, he developed teaching games that used humor to help students understand and enjoy the mystifying idiosyncrasies of the English language. Those games grew into the highly original series of funny books on English for which he is known.
Terban"s books have made it as far as Shanghai University in China, where they are used to teach English to adults.
His Scholastic Dictionary of Idioms has been translated into Japanese and Korean. Two of his books were turned into early computer games. Three of his Scholastic books, Checking Your Grammar, Dictionary of Idioms, and Dictionary of Spelling, have sold well over one million copies each.
Terban has acted in local community theater plays to raise money for charitable causes.
He has also had small parts in movies directed by Woody Allen. Foreign many summers he directed plays at a summer camp.
He has paid "Meet the Author" visits to and given presentations about English language arts skills at schools, colleges, and educational conferences all over the United States, South America, Europe, Israel, and Japan. He has appeared as a guest on the December 19th, 1965 episode of the Columbia Broadcasting System television show "What"s My Lincolnshire?".
( BUILDING YOUR VOCABULARY, the newest addition to the Sc...)
( An introduction to six common figures of speech -- meta...)
( The revised SCHOLASTIC DICTIONARY OF SPELLING has been ...)
(Publication Date: August 1, 1994 | Age Level: 8 and up | ...)
(Offers readers the chance to create their own homographs,...)
(Dozens and dozens of fun, attention-getting practice page...)
( This collection of original riddles is unlike any other...)
(This collection of original riddles is unlike any other b...)
( A person or place that becomes a word is an eponym, and...)
( Puncuation Power, the newest paperback Scholastic Guide...)
( Thirty popular expressions such as "straight from the h...)
( Introduces and explains action idioms and their origins...)
( This charming book on wordplay offers a fun way to lear...)
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(This guide to idioms provides the student with an opportu...)
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(Terban, Marvin - Too hot to hoot: Funny palindrome riddle...)
(This easy-to-use reference book helps you edit your writi...)
(Terban, Marvin - Eight ate: A feast of homonym riddles / ...)
( The best-selling grammar guide gets a fresh, new cover ...)
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In 2005, the Society of Children"s Book Writers and Illustrators, an international organization of over 20,000 creators of children"s books, voted Mr. Terban their Member of the Year.