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Teachers at Work
The Magic of Three: Teaching Students about "Triplets"
Wed Oct 28 00:00:00 EDT 2009
Irving Berlin knew it when he wrote, "From the mountains, to the prairies, to the oceans white with foam." Emma Lazarus knew it when she wrote, "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free." Abraham Lincoln knew it when he wrote, "Of the people, by the people, for the people." And Thomas Jefferson knew it when he wrote, near the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," and, at the very end, "our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: June Edition
Fri Jun 27 00:00:00 EDT 2008
There's an extra-fiendish twist to this month's crossword puzzle. Figure it out and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Word Count
Type Casting
Tue Jan 24 00:00:00 EST 2012
While the semicolon has long been a favorite topic of discussion at grammarian cocktail parties, the fact that this intermediate piece of punctuation has leapt from its place in linguistics to make a cameo appearance in not one, but two Broadway shows, is surely a sign that things are currently very right, and very write, on the Great White Way.
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Word Routes
2010 Spelling Bee: Three Cheers for Anamika!
Sat Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2010
At the end of the 2010 Scripps National Spelling Bee, 14-year-old Anamika Veeramani of North Royalton, Ohio stood alone as the champion. Anamika, who tied for fifth in last year's National Bee, showed poise throughout the competition as one contestant after another fell by the wayside. Though her ride was mostly smooth, the Spelling Bee itself saw some controversy.
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Candlepower
Fashion Tribes
Tue Apr 24 00:00:00 EDT 2012
I consider myself a reasonably fluent speaker of Fashionspeak, a dialect distinguished by peculiar adjectives ("statement" necklace, "boyfriend" jacket), enigmatic abbreviations (boho, bodycon, cami), and a bullying use of the imperative mood ("must-have," "dos and don'ts"). Nevertheless, I sometimes find myself staring in puzzlement at a fashion headline, trying to decode an unlikely usage of a word I thought I knew. This season, that word is "tribal."
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Candlepower
"Microstyle": The Word Factory
Thu Aug 11 00:00:00 EDT 2011
Earlier this week, we featured an excerpt from Microstyle: The Art of Writing Little by Christopher Johnson, a branding expert who runs the website The Name Inspector. Here we continue Johnson's discussion of how "the crowded space of names might create a need for more complex ways to create names."
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Word Count
Seven Strategies for Banishing Your Perfectionism
Fri Nov 27 00:00:00 EST 2015
Perfectionism should have been the furthest thing from my mind after getting — and recovering from — a repetitive strain injury. But I was reluctant to resume working on my book. It wasn't so much the pain in my arm. It was more my concern that my writing wasn't any good. Could that have been perfectionism speaking?
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Evasive Maneuvers
Ladies' Night at the Euphemism Bar
Wed Jun 05 00:00:00 EDT 2013
I believe in equality: in society and in columns. Last month, I looked at the prolific use of gentleman in euphemisms. This month, I turn to lady. Lady euphs prove something I always suspected: the English language is seldom a well-behaved lady, but it always shows you a good time.
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Lesson Plans
Using Key Words to Unlock Math Word Problems
Tue Mar 09 00:00:00 EST 2010
How can identifying key words help students solve mathematical word problems?
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Word Count
The Power of Short Words
Thu Mar 11 00:00:00 EST 2010
Michael Lydon, a well-known writer on popular music since the 1960s, has for many years also been writing about writing. Lydon's essays, written with a colloquial clarity, shed fresh light on familiar and not so familiar aspects of the writing art. Here Lydon explores how short words are more potent than long words.
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