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Keeping a Meaningful Vocabulary Log
Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 EDT 2009
While many teachers may have their students keep vocabulary logs of the unfamiliar words they encounter in books they are reading or from the world at large, few require students to take the extra steps to ensure a deeper or more meaningful understanding of these words.
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Teachers at Work
The Same Old Song, But with a Different Meaning Since We've Been Gone
Mon Aug 24 00:00:00 EDT 2009
Shannon Reed wraps up her summer of delving into literary and cinematic depictions of the classroom with appreciations of Half Nelson, Election, and The Class.
It's that time of year, folks. I've been watching the Facebook status updates as summer winds down for my friends across the country. First comes a note that there's only one week of summer left, then a sad little post about the last day of break, and then an update about the first day of school. Parents, teachers, students, people who can't wait for all of us to clear out of Starbucks between 9 and 3 — we all know it's here.
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Word Count
Secrets of Book Title Writing
Wed Jul 25 00:00:00 EDT 2007
Visual Thesaurus subscriber Jayne Lytel, a nationally syndicated columnist and author of Act Early Against Autism, graciously sent us this terrific article. Thanks, Jayne!
Writers agonize over everything -- tone, style, word choice, structure, leads, endings, grammar, the long hours they work, don't work. One thing that's absolutely worth obsessing about is writing a tantalizing title for your book.
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Word Routes
Occupying Word Street
Fri Oct 14 00:00:00 EDT 2011
The public protest over economic inequalities known as "Occupy Wall Street" has been going on nearly a month now, with the original demonstration in Manhattan's Financial District spreading to cities around the world. Thanks to the success of the movement, the lingo of the protesters has spread quickly, with the verb occupy in particular becoming a kind of rallying cry.
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: December Edition
Fri Dec 27 00:00:00 EST 2013
As 2013 comes to a close, we have a crossword for you full of things that celebrated 100th anniversaries this year. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Candlepower
Brand Names of the Year for 2014
Fri Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2014
At the end of each year, while linguists and lexicographers cast votes for words of the year, I'm compiling a different list: the brand names that distilled the mood of the previous twelve months. To narrow the field, I add another criterion: the brand names must have linguistic or onomastic significance — onomastics being the study of names.
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Candlepower
True (Business) Believers
Mon Nov 10 00:00:00 EST 2008
No U.S. politician who professes to be an agnostic can hope for much of a career: a majority of Americans require their elected representatives to take the deity very seriously and insert "God bless America" into every speech. But in the world of business, and especially in high technology, agnostic isn't just accepted, it's practically — well, revered.
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Contest
The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: November Edition
Fri Nov 26 00:00:00 EST 2010
Here at the Visual Thesaurus, we're still recovering from all the Thanksgiving turkey. To celebrate the holiday, we've got a Thanksgiving theme for this month's puzzle. Solve it and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!
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Word Count
Why I'm Writing This Column on a Treadmill
Thu Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018
A little eccentricity can be a good thing — especially when it simultaneously enhances creativity and alleviates back pain.
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Blog Excerpts
Getting on a First-Name Basis with Winter Storms
Tue Jan 27 00:00:00 EST 2015
East Coast residents (outside of New England) might have been a bit underwhelmed by the blizzard-that-wasn't known as "Winter Storm Juno." While this "junior" storm has fallen short of the hyped-up expectations, it's still interesting to consider how it achieved named status in the first place.
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