Linda Davis Kyle

Linda Davis-Kyle has been published in North America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia in more than a dozen countries. Her articles have appeared in professional journals such as Modern Drama in Canada, Bulletin of Bibliography in Great Britain, Caritas in Ireland, and Studies in English Literature in Japan and in publications such as Golden Falcon in Bahrain, Healthy Options in New Zealand, The News in the Netherlands Antilles, Oryx in Qatar, and World Travel Magazine in Australia.

— Writing about Your Pets #1: Questions & Prompts for 'Tweens, Teens & Beyond —

Animals, generally, and pets, specifically, affect the attitudes and behaviors of humans. Writing about Your Pets #1 champions you to express how you feel about your precious pets. Doing so may help you to learn more about yourself. In addition, you will be presented with story startups that are itching for you to finish. Some prompts are compressed for you to take control and run with the idea. Some, though, are expanded to give you a head start. Some of the startups are lighthearted while others are deadly serious. Depending on how you develop some of the prompts, your presentations can be used to educate or to entertain. All in all, they are provided to help you to enjoy your writing.

Some of the exercises in this ebook will be simple questions that you can answer with ease. You may choose to write straightforward answers in succinct sentences and well-composed paragraphs. You may write descriptions and elaborate with detailed examples. If you will take the questions seriously and answer fully, then you will benefit mightily. You can put to good use your power to write descriptions, expositions, narrations, or persuasions.

Also, if people in your life have tried to diminish your self-confidence, then use this modest little ebook to practice with your written words to foster your confidence, not in a haughty way, but in a loving and reassuring way to your path of strength. As Sun Tzu says, “You have to believe in yourself.” [Excerpted from the Introduction]

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

“This ebook is an invaluable resource that everyone can benefit from, particularly the farmers who need support to keep growing and producing good clean foods in a GMO-driven industry.” — Griffin Cole, DDS, NMD, FIAOMT, Austin, TX, USA, From the Foreword

Organic regenerative food growers of today must be allowed peacefully to use not only their university degrees but also their many years of experience and expertise in ranching and farming to run their ranches and farms their "proven best" way. They must be afforded their rights to own their own lands, to own and save their own natural seeds from season to season, and to grow their crops in the logical way that creates rich, healthy, living soil, as Gabe Brown teaches.

The misguided, unelected and elected, uninformed, or poorly and wrongly informed advocates for Taking over and Discarding Our Beloved Ranchers, Farmers, Dairies, and Fishers must give way to the logic and commonsense of these fine organic and regenerative small food producers worldwide. Gabe Brown, of Brown's Farm, Bismarck, ND, USA, and bestselling author of "Dirt to Soil" emphasizes the supreme significance of working with Mother Nature, not against her.

In this ebook, Jazmin Jordan Brown, Head of Marketing and Sales and Co-Owner with Paul Brown of Nourished by Nature, shares the great success with carbon sequestering that the Brown family and ranchers and farmers like them have done and are doing through ethical and logical thinking.

Real Food for Real People: Just Say "No" to GMOs presents more than 100 websites of small organic and regenerative food producers and marketers around the world that you can read about and work to support each rancher, farmer, dairy, of fisher in your own local area.The ebook also shares 35+ books of interest to parents, lists 30+ must-see movies and documentaries, and is equivalent to about 340 pages as a print book

Real Food for Real People e-book is a veritable treasure trove of delicious fun recipes, family bonding activities of reading, playing wholesome family games, worshiping, and traveling together, and helpful ideas to nurture toddlers to teens and beyond to make every day—sunup to sundown—a wonderful celebration of life for you and all those you love, if working steadfastly together we can make it so.

YOUR WRITING MATTERS Series

— [1] Teaching English to Children: Reviewing English Grammar with Fun Practices, Colorful Mind Maps & Fitness Games, Nutrition Tips & More —

As a well-organized teacher, have you, nevertheless, ever left your class plan for the day on your neat desk at home when you dashed away to be in class on time? Or have you ever inadvertently abandoned your class plans in your favorite coffee shop? Or, if you are teaching overseas right out of uni, did your last evening roll right on into morning unbelievably quickly and leave you just a tad unprepared to teach your classes for the day?

If such happenings threaten to thwart your usual excellent teaching efforts, then Teaching English to Children, a treasured collection of activities, practices, and exercises will rescue you swiftly. With Teaching English to Children at your fingertips, you will not have to miss a single beat. No one ever will suspect that your lesson plans were lost to you for even a tiny moment..

Davis-Kyle also shares lessons from which the most dedicated and organized teachers may choose their favorites to include alongside their own exercises and activities as they carefully create their own wonderful weekly or monthly lesson plans. A great use today, many exercises encourage teamwork to foster camaraderie and to prevent bullying.

Educators, homeschoolers, parents, adoptive parents, and grandparents will find this Kindle e-book to be a time-saver for themselves and a confidence-building fun language review for their 'tweens and early teen students.

Davis-Kyle's colorfully illustrated "Parts of Speech Mind Maps" help students to see words, sentences, paragraphs, and writing practice in a sparkling new light that greatly enhances memory and encourages a deep love for learning. The "Focusing on Fitness Mind Map" reminds readers of numerous fitness opportunities that can help keep them healthy for life by nurturing body, mind, and spirit that are very much needed in today's world.

— [2] Getting Ready to Write: Reviewing English Grammar—

This Kindle e-book is the perfect gift for your friends who are dedicated educators, writing coaches, and homeschoolers to supplement their own diligently prepared daily, weekly, or monthly lesson plans.

With its abundant writing prompts, activities, practices, and exercises, it is heaven sent for parents, grandparents, adoptive parents, foster parents, and mentors, who suddenly find themselves pinch hitting as teachers. Whether excellent seasoned educators or talented brand-new teachers, this little e-book can help champion pre-teen, teen, and beyond teen beginning writers at home, online, or in class.

— [3] Getting Teens to Write: Writing for Real —

The author of Getting Teens to Write says, "At first, you may write about easy topics. After enough practice, though, you will get involved more fully. You can enlighten your readers with crucial information from reputable sources that you can document. Then read even more from other reliable sources to get solid, irrefutable evidence. Inspect, investigate, interrogate, interview, and analyze information you find from every angle you possibly can. Question everything you see, hear, and read. Think deeply and consider every aspect of the topic. Make sure that the prevailing theory prevails.

"Studying, learning, and using correct grammar basics that marry the beauty of the reliable parts of speech with the robust function of the mechanics of spelling and word order, capitalization, punctuation, and contractions will bring abundant success as you write to achieve your goal."

This ebook introduces four writers who as pre-teens began writing about their concerns to try to make a difference in the world. If they can write to influence world opinion, then you can, too, if you will get started today. The overarching goal of Getting Teens to Write is to enlist pre-teens, teens, and beyond teens—all around the world—to put their researching, interviewing, and "writing for real" skills to work to bring the truth to readers before it is too late.

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 an enlightening view of technical writing by Joseph Gregg from the United States and an engaging look at fiction writing by Nancy McAlary 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.