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  1. Announcements

     Introducing... The VT Spelling Bee!
    Thu Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2008
    We're very pleased to announce a brand-new feature: the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee! Taking advantage of our high-quality audio pronunciations, we've created a quiz that will sharpen your spelling skills and expand your vocabulary. And as everyone here in the office can attest, the quiz is downright addictive.

  2. Lesson Plans

     Story Impressions: Judging a Book by its Key Words
    Tue Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    As a pre-reading activity, how can students piece together a plausible narrative based on a list of key words from the novel Holes?

  3. Word Routes

     Wild Words of Children's Literature, from "Runcible" to "Rumpus"
    Fri May 11 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    This week has seen many encomiums to the great children's book author Maurice Sendak, who died on Tuesday at the age of 83. As it happens, tomorrow marks the two hundredth birthday of one of Sendak's predecessors in playful children's literature: Edward Lear. That got me thinking about the grand tradition of wordplay in books for children, from Lear and Carroll to Seuss and Sendak.

  4. Lesson Plans

     Rooting One's Way to Meaning
    Mon Oct 22 00:00:00 EDT 2007
    In this lesson, small groups of students will use the VT to assist them in an inquiry based approach to discovering the meanings of some common Latin and Greek roots. Then, each student will then teach a particular root and related vocabulary words to another group of students through a "jigsaw" exercise.

  5. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: September Edition
    Fri Sep 24 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Today is National Punctuation Day, so naturally for the September edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword we have a punctuation-themed puzzle for you. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  6. Evasive Maneuvers

     Black and Orange Process Upsets in the Pause Pod
    Sun Nov 12 00:00:00 EST 2017
    A high percentage of that malarkey consists of euphemisms, which is why we could probably develop fusion energy by harnessing the grave-spinning of George Orwell.

  7. Lesson Plans

     Introducing Students to Literary Nonfiction
    Tue Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2013
    This lesson introduces students to the genre of literary nonfiction and has them analyze the literary elements of a cell description in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.

  8. Evasive Maneuvers

     Dreaming of Warm Lines and Patriot Pay
    Thu Jul 09 09:00:00 EDT 2020
    Need help getting through 2020? Here's a euphemism or two to distract you from reality.

  9. Language Lounge

     Girls, Girls, Girls
    Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2005
    March is Women's History Month. In homage, we will clear a space on the davenport for all things female in the Language Lounge. English is a particularly apt place to study women's history, because it has fossilized many concepts and attitudes about women that are undergoing reappraisal today. Word associations in English reflect, to a very large degree, a historical rather than a contemporary take on woman; the Visual Thesaurus gives us a place to study these connections.

  10. Word Count

     Do Your Writing Habits Reveal Grit?
    Thu Jun 11 00:00:00 EDT 2015
    Some people see me as successful. I don't think I'm the least bit talented at anything apart from organizing. (My idiot-savant ability at taking chaos and transforming it into order is useful but in the talent department it kind of sucks. It's like being spectacularly good at checkers or vacuuming the living-room.) But I have one other useful attribute. Grit.
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