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Word Routes
What's the Word of 2010?
Fri Dec 17 00:00:00 EST 2010
As 2010 winds down, word-watchers are reflecting on a year of vuvuzelas and robo-signers, gleeks and mama grizzlies. Let's take a look back at some of the lexical highlights from the past year.
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Word Routes
2011 Spelling Bee: The Fearless 41 Advance
Thu Jun 02 00:00:00 EDT 2011
The 2011 Scripps National Spelling Bee got underway yesterday, as the 275 entrants faced the early rounds of spelling stumpers. Only 41 will advance to Thursday's semifinal round, but we're happy to report that two of them are familiar faces to us: Nicholas Rushlow and Tony Incorvati, both of Ohio, are returning spellers who have told us how they use the Visual Thesaurus Spelling Bee for practice. We wouldn't want to play favorites, but, well... go Nicholas and Tony!
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Lesson Plans
Making Sense of Homographs
Mon Jul 26 00:00:00 EDT 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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Lesson Plans
Where Math Meets Poetry
Fri May 30 00:00:00 EDT 2008
In this lesson, students identify the algorithm behind Fibonacci's sequence of numbers and then read a New York Times article about how blogger Gregory K. Pincus invented a poetry form based on this number sequence. Students then synthesize their knowledge of the Fibonacci sequence and the VT to create their own "Word Fib" poems that explore the multiple connotations of some challenging one-syllable vocabulary words.
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Word Count
How to Stop Using Email to Procrastinate About Writing
Thu Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2016
Have you ever emailed me? If so, you likely received a reply in less than 24 hours. Yet I refuse to let email rule my life. I see email as a wonderfully improbable tool that allows me to communicate quickly and easily in the blink of an eye. Still, the writing of emails is an insidious task that could easily gobble up hours out of every day.
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Dog Eared
Best Books of 2007
Tue Dec 25 00:00:00 EST 2007
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Teachers at Work
Beyond Words: Getting Animated About Poetry
Wed Mar 16 00:00:00 EDT 2011
I was recently asked by a young and annoyingly successful poet how I thought language learners dealt with the special demands that poetry puts on the reader, and the discussion that followed led us into a marvelous land.
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Word Count
No "Fun": Noun? Yes. Adjective? Well...
Wed Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2012
The journalism professor was not having much "fun" explaining things to her feature-writing students: "I know so fun is wrong but I can't tell them why," she wrote. "So happy is right, but so fun should have 'much' as the sandwich filling."
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Teachers at Work
Writing Prompts for Students: How to Strike the Right Balance
Tue Jun 04 00:00:00 EDT 2013
How much is too much? Currently a commercial for AT&T is asking if more is better, and, of course, the little kids sitting in the circle clamor that more is definitely better. In the world of writing prompts, though, more or less becomes one of those debatable things. Be too specific, and a teacher may actually be limiting student creativity. Yet, being too vague might frazzle kids completely.
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Teachers at Work
Unlike People, Words Like Labels
Wed Jul 14 00:00:00 EDT 2010
Should college students be taught the parts of speech? Writing teacher Margaret Hundley Parker explains why she takes the time to work through this seemingly basic aspect of grammar with her students.
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