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  1. Blog Excerpts

     Most Looked-Up Words in the Times
    Fri Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    The New York Times has been keeping track of the words that users of the Times website click on the most to look up definitions. The word with the most lookups in 2009 is the Latin term sui generis. Nieman Journalism Lab presents the words and crunches the numbers.

  2. Teachers at Work

     Exposure, Excitement, Inspiration
    Mon Dec 19 00:00:00 EST 2011
    When The New York Times was at its former site just off Times Square, and before the days of computers, when reporters clacked away on typewriters in a newsroom the size of an aircraft carrier flight deck, my high school journalism class and I toured the building annually, visiting the layout department, the newsroom and the press room.

  3. Behind the Dictionary

     Quotable Moments of '08
    Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 EST 2008
    Fred R. Shapiro, the editor of The Yale Book of Quotations, is constantly on the lookout for new quotations that might make the cut for the next edition of his authoritative (and entertaining) quotation dictionary. Below, find out what he thinks are the top ten quotations of 2008.

  4. Word Count

     How Does English Instruction Add Up?
    Mon Nov 09 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Back when I went to high school (that would be in the dark ages when our cave classrooms were lit with Survivor-style torches and we chiseled hieroglyphs onto the walls) I did really well in English, social studies, and law. But I barely survived math.

  5. Announcements

     Grab Hold of Your Vocabulary with VocabGrabber!
    Tue May 05 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    We're tremendously excited to present a new feature on the Visual Thesaurus website called VocabGrabber, a tool that intelligently extracts words from any document you're interested in. All you need to do is copy a text and Vocabgrabber will instantly pull out the most useful vocabulary words and show you how those words are used in context. You can sort, filter, and save the lists, and also view Visual Thesaurus wordmaps and definitions. It's a boon for students, teachers, English language learners, or anyone who wants to bring some interactive fun to vocab learning.

  6. Lesson Plans

     Analyzing a Writer's Stance
    Mon Feb 18 00:00:00 EST 2008
    In this lesson, students analyze a writer's stance on legacy preferences in college admissions as expressed in a New York Times column. Then, students are asked to defend different points of view on the topic in a roundtable debate.

  7. Wordshop

     Vocabulary OUT LOUD
    Thu May 06 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    How can you say you know a word if you have never spoken it aloud? How can you "own" a word if you have never used it? These are some of the questions that Heidi Hayes Jacobs prompts us to consider in her widely acclaimed book for educators Active Literacy Across the Curriculum.

  8. Word Count

     The Many Dance Partners of "Enamored"
    Thu Jul 12 00:00:00 EDT 2012

    I was recently taken to task for writing the following in a blog post:

    That's one thing with pet peeves: they're our pets. We're enamored with them.

    Do you see the problem?

  9. Teachers at Work

     Be Not Afraid to Tackle Social Media
    Wed Jul 07 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    Teachers, are you wary of using social media and other online tools to foster student communication? Follow these tips from Michele Dunaway, who teaches English and journalism at Francis Howell High School in St. Charles, Missouri (when she's not writing best-selling romance novels).

  10. Lesson Plans

     How to Ruin a Poem
    Wed Jan 04 00:00:00 EST 2012
    How is word choice valued in poetry?
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