Photographs and simple text introduce young readers to the different shapes found in places, equipment, and activities used in sports.

Introduces shapes, including squares, triangles, semicircles, and diamonds, and presents images of sports equipment and activities that employ those shapes.

Shapes are everywhere! Shapes in Sports helps introduce young readers to various shapes found in daily life, from a cylinder hockey puck to a pentagon on a soccer ball. Simple sentences along with large eye-catching photographs help illustrate the 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes found in sports. Prompts for recognizing shapes at the beginning and end of the book help strengthen vocabulary, math comprehension, and critical thinking skills. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Super SandCastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing Company.

Set out for a day at the beach and learn about all the three-dimensional shapes you will see there. The book introduces the cone, cube, sphere, pyramid, and cylinder, all while using a familiar setting.

Introduces shapes, including squares, triangles, circles, and rectangles, and presents images of buildings that employ these shapes in their architecture.

Can you spot the shape? Read this book to find out about the different shapes you can find in sport. Books in this series introduce children to different shapes in a range of situations. Each book uses simple, repetitive text to teach children basic vocab

While the topic of relationships in professional sports teams is gaining greater attention from researchers and practitioners, the role that coach and athlete language plays in shaping these relationships remains largely unexplored. This book addresses this gap by examining how every day, authentic language patterns used by coaches, captains and players shape relationships in a professional New Zealand rugby team. More specifically, through a discourse analysis of taken-for-granted ritual language practices in training sessions, team meetings and match-day interactions, the chapters of this book illustrate how coaches, captains and players shape particular interpersonal dynamics of power and solidarity between themselves in and through language and, in the process, reflect and reconstruct shared and underlying ideologies about how relationships of power and solidarity work in their team. Offering an evidence-based discussion of the silent and pervasive ideologies that underpin how relationships work in professional sports teams, this book extends research on this important topic by providing largely missing illustrations of consequential interpersonal dynamics that actively shape professional relationships in sports teams. Written in an approachable style, this book offers linguists, social scientists and sports practitioners a frame of reference for greater understanding of how language directly shapes relationships of power and solidarity.