Heidi G.
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Books:

Has Shakespeare's Dictionary Been Discovered?
April 24, 2014
It's Shakespeare's Birthday and We've Got Party Favors!
April 23, 2014

Language arts:

The Real News About the Redesigned SAT
April 16, 2014 - 1 Comment
The Problem with Punctuation: Some Classroom Findings
March 14, 2014 - 3 Comments

Libraries:

Librarians Suggest Good Books for Kids of All Ages
January 15, 2013
Love Your Librarian
September 26, 2011 - 4 Comments

Media:

"Over" Reaction: Copy Editors Gasp at AP Ruling on "Over"/"More Than"
March 21, 2014 - 6 Comments
And the Oscar for Best Production-Company Name Goes to...
premium content - available only to Visual Thesaurus subcribers February 18, 2014 - 4 Comments

Online:

How ALL CAPS Became Code for YELLING
April 22, 2014
Selfie's Children: The Productive "-fie" Suffix
January 13, 2014 - 2 Comments

Puzzle:

The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: March Edition!
March 21, 2008
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition!
February 13, 2008

Reading:

Strangers in Our Midst: Words We Skip While Reading
April 9, 2014 - 4 Comments
For National Reading Month, Finding Vocabulary All Around Us
March 20, 2014

Spelling:

That Tricky 'E': Making Verbs Out of Nouns
April 21, 2014 - 2 Comments
The Return of the Literary Spelling Bee
October 30, 2013 - 4 Comments

Storytelling:

Type Casting
January 24, 2012 - 2 Comments
Shakespeare and the Hurricane
October 12, 2011 - 5 Comments

Students:

You've Got Mail: The Art of the Thank You
December 4, 2012 - 5 Comments
The E-Reader Over Your Shoulder
November 12, 2012 - 2 Comments

Words:

That Tricky 'E': Making Verbs Out of Nouns
April 21, 2014 - 2 Comments
"Staycation," "Bleisure," and Other Made-Up Travel Words
April 15, 2014

Young readers:

Fifteen Ways of Looking at "The Woods": Jumpstarting Poetry in the Classroom
July 23, 2013 - 4 Comments
Turning the Page: Short Fiction for English Language Learners
June 17, 2013 - 2 Comments