Take the Prefix Challenge!
December 16, 2010
How can students use prefixes to help them transform words' meanings and to decode unfamiliar words?
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Lesson PlansPut the VT to work in your classroomTake the Prefix Challenge! December 16, 2010
How can students use prefixes to help them transform words' meanings and to decode unfamiliar words?
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Sorting out Homophones in Roald Dahl's "Matilda" November 2, 2010
How can students identify the correct homophones to fit the context of quotations taken from Matilda?
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Spanish-English Cognates in the ELL Classroom: Friends or Foes? October 5, 2010
How can the Visual Thesaurus help Spanish-speaking ELL students differentiate between true and false cognates?
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Jump-Starting Research with the Visual Thesaurus August 30, 2010
How can the Visual Thesaurus help identify effective keywords for search engine inquiries?
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Making Sense of Homographs July 26, 2010
How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to make sense of some common homographs and to discover a pattern among stress homographs?
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The Three M's of Statistics: Mode, Median, Mean June 30, 2010
How can students use the Visual Thesaurus to learn more about mode, median, and mean, and to apply their knowledge in solving some basic statistical math problems?
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Words That Hold Court May 24, 2010
How can students learn legal terminology associated with the Supreme Court?
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