College & Adult

College-level classes and adult education is available online as remote learning now more than ever.

Resources for College & Adult

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Side by Side: Student Book 1 (Third Edition)

A conversation-first beginner course built around guided dialogues, which makes it one of the few ESL books that works with two people at a kitchen table.

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Essential Grammar in Use with Answers

Raymond Murphy's elementary grammar reference, built on a two-page unit format that makes it genuinely usable for self-study.

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Word Power Made Easy

A vocabulary builder that teaches Greek and Latin roots rather than word lists, so each session unlocks families of words at once.

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Basic English Grammar Workbook (Azar-Hagen, 5th Edition)

The grammar series most ESL teacher training programs are built around, in workbook form with a full answer key for self-study.

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Oxford Picture Dictionary, Third Edition

The standard visual dictionary in ESL classrooms worldwide: roughly 4,000 words organized by real-life situation rather than alphabetically.

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English for Everyone Practice Book Level 1: Beginner

The written practice half of DK's Level 1 course. Buy it with the course book, not instead of it.

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English for Everyone Course Book Level 1: Beginner

DK's visual self-study English course, built so a complete beginner can work through it alone without a teacher explaining every page.

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How to Take Smart Notes

The standard English-language explanation of the Zettelkasten slip-box method: notes written to be linked and reused, not filed and forgotten.

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The Executive Functioning Workbook for Teens

A worksheet-based workbook the teenager completes themselves, building planning, time estimation and self-monitoring habits one short activity at a time.

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Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything

A short, 160-page distillation of Barbara Oakley's learning research, co-written with Olav Schewe — the fastest way into the material for an older teen.

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I Want More Pizza: Real World Money Skills For High School, College, And Beyond

A short, teen-friendly intro to money skills that uses a pizza metaphor to teach saving, budgeting, and compound growth. Written for high-school and college students; a quick, actionable first personal-finance read.

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Why Didn't They Teach Me This in School?: 99 Personal Money Management Principles to Live By

A concise personal-finance primer built around 8 principles and 99 practical money lessons — budgeting, saving, credit, and investing — for teens and young adults. A popular graduation gift and homeschool money-skills supplement.