Linda Davis Kyle

Linda Davis-Kyle has been published in a dozen countries in North America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia. Her articles have been published in professional journals such as Modern Drama in Canada, Notes & Queries in the UK, and Studies in English Literature in Japan. Her health and fitness, general interest, and writing articles have appeared in magazines such as Common Ground and Vitality in Canada, Trade Winds in the Netherlands Antilles, and Well Being Magazine in Australia.

—Real Food for Real People: Just Say "No" to GMOs—

Davis-Kyle introduces a collection of colorfully illustrated health-nurturing organic recipes straight from Mother Nature. Toddlers love the vibrant colors, textures, and flavors of the delicious foods. The components of the recipes that you prepare for your youngsters give pre-readers great fun matching the parts of the recipes as if they are "food puzzles." Your early readers delight in showing you their reading talents, rounding up the ingredients, and organizing to get started with making their favorite recipes. Pre-teens, and even teens, love some of the recipes to add fun for their parties or when friends come over.

Happily being on your team to make their favorite quick-to-fix or several-steps recipes from the ebook gives your children the attention they crave from you in today's world of overwhelming distractions that constantly separate you from them. Working toward a common goal in your cozy, sun-kissed kitchen filled with the aromas from your favorite Real Food recipes creates a parent-child bond that nurtures your children and helps them to know they have you to protect them and keep them safe. Being not only their parent but also their trusted friend, your children know they can confide in you in times of trouble. Knowing that you love having your youngsters on your team nurtures them and helps to make them healthier and happier.

The ebook goes beyond this pleasant view of making your kitchen and your home a happy haven, though, and points out the harsh reality that organic food growers and organic food gatherers are facing all around the world currently. Think about it this way, "Simply put, there will be no 'Making Your Kitchen a Happy Haven,' if we do not take our strongest stand peacefully, legally, and lawfully to protect the rights and freedoms of our noble local small farmers, ranchers, dairies, and fishers—worldwide."

YOUR WRITING MATTERS Series

— [1] Teaching English to Children —

As the author of a perfect time-saving gift for your favourite teacher—Teaching English to Children: Reviewing Grammar with Fun Practices, Colorful Mind Maps & Fitness Games – Nutrition Tips & More—Linda Davis-Kyle highlights the impressive teen writers—Rachel Parent (writer, anti-GMO activist, and speaker since age 11) and Jake Marcionette (New York Times bestselling author of the Just Jake series since age 12)—to encourage pre-teens to want to write, too. [The former title was The Busy English Teacher's Fun Activities & Exercises for Pre-Teens.]

Davis-Kyle shares an abundance of handy activities from which teachers may choose their favourites to include as they create their own wonderful weekly or monthly lesson plans. Many exercises focus on helping students practice co-creating to prevent bullying and other disrupting elements. Davis-Kyle interweaves compelling American English language review practices with invigorating physical exercises to enhance language skills and physical fitness and to foster confidence and encourage cooperation among students. Drawing activities fortify hand-eye coordination, stimulate imagination, and inspire visualization. Educators, homeschoolers, parents, adoptive parents, and grandparents will find this Kindle book to be a time-saving treasure for themselves and a relaxing, confidence-boosting fun language review for their pre-teens.

Davis-Kyle's colourful mind maps illustrating the Parts of Speech help teachers engage non-dyslexic and dyslexic students to see words, sentences, paragraphs, and writing practice in an intriguing new light that encourages a love for learning. The Focusing on Fitness Mind Map draws attention to the amazing array of fitness practices that can foster excellent health.

When innovative teachers and inspired homeschoolers make Teaching English to Children their own best friend and keep it at their fingertips, it will reward them again and again. This ebook is a true asset and time-saver for caring educators because they can modify many of the wholesome activities shared in this friendly supplemental text to work beautifully for many other school subjects.

— [2] Getting Ready to Write —

Getting Ready to Write will help writers-in-the making conquer writing basics early. Embrace this little ebook and use it to write with ease and pleasure. You teachers actually may enjoy grading your papers long before your university years if you work to polish your writing. If instructors can read your smooth-as-silk, error-free masterpieces, and actually enjoy your writing assignments, then think how such an accomplishment might reflect on your reported grades.

In a dialogue with Librarian of Congress James H. Billington, David McCullough, twice Pulitzer Prize winner and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, among numerous other coveted awards, said, “Somebody told me recently that half of the incoming freshmen at our business schools, who, of course, are all college graduates are now being required to take a basic course in writing because they cannot write a presentable letter or report or proposal.... Now, that’s a serious national problem.”

McCullough continued, “If you can educate someone to be able to express themselves on paper or on their feet, then you have given them something that will be of infinite value not just to themselves but to the whole society ... for the rest of their lives.”

Reading, studying, and practicing your writing with the sincere help from your friend, Getting Ready to Write, always at your fingertips, will help to make your best writing dreams come true.

— [3] Getting Teens to Write —

By using the Getting Teens to Write writing prompts—serious and not so serious—practicing your writing skills will embolden you to dismiss any dream smashers. You will no longer allow negative ninnies and naysayers to block your right to write. If you are blessed with a devoted parent, homeschooler, dedicated writing coach, or thoughtful teacher who cheers you on with polishing your writing talent, then you will profit. Your confidence will rise.

Getting Teens to Write also is for those who long to write but haven’t found topics that engage them powerfully enough to hold their attention. So, it is hoped that Getting Teens to Write will whisper in your ear and tug at your shirt sleeve and keep on keeping on with its questions and prompts and ideas urging you to write until, finally, you say, “Ok. I’ll write. I’ve wanted to tackle that topic for a long time. I’ve gotta write what needs to be written.”

Even those beyond their teens, nondyslexic and dyslexic alike, who have wanted to write, but have been too reticent to try, can write now. When you are blessed with innovative teachers and writing prompts such as those offered in this Getting Teens to Write, you will bolster your writing skills. You will recognize ways to engage your readers, and you will achieve your writing goals. If you need solid evidence that you can succeed in your effort to write if you practice your writing to make your writing sparkle, then this ebook will show you the way.

PRINT BOOKS

— Fun Foods for Kids & Grownups —

Parents, adoptive parents, and grandparents find Davis-Kyle's Fun Foods for Kids & Grownups: Your essential guide to family fun & good health (paperback 2003, 2005), an extension of talks for parents, to be a thought-provoking and empowering model to help nourish and nurture children.

— Change Your Life with Martial Arts —

Change Your Life with Martial Arts: Your essential introduction to the martial arts (paperback 2002) helps adults and youth determine the martial art style best suited to them and the dojo best suited to their goals.

— The Writer’s Friend —

Davis-Kyle is the principal author of The Writer's Friend: Behind the Scenes with Editors, a book that also included the writing of Joseph Gregg , a fine technical writer, from the United States and Nancy McAlary, a published fiction short story author, from Australia (paperback 2000). Some of Davis-Kyle’s workshops for beginning writers include "Teaming Up with Your Inner Editor" and "Making Writing Your Best Friend." She has the reputation for helping her students and others discover their amazing talents, and she loves teaching workshops for beginning writers of all ages.