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  1. Lesson Plans

     VocabGrabbing the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
    Tue Jun 30 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    How can students use VocabGrabber and Frayer Model graphic organizers to help them evaluate the essential American values outlined in the preamble to the U.S. Constitution?

  2. Department of Word Lists

     Daisy Chain of Thought
    Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    With this column we welcome Bob Greenman, author of Words That Make a Difference and More Words That Make a Difference, as a regular contributor to the Visual Thesaurus. Here Bob uses words from the latter book, with illustrative passages from The Atlantic Monthly, to muse on a great love of his life.

  3. Book Nook

     The Landscape of the Classroom
    Mon Jun 29 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In this excerpt from his new book Beyond Cut and Paste, ed-tech guru Jamie McKenzie explains why having your students turn their backs on you may be a good thing in the laptop classroom!

  4. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: June Edition
    Fri Jun 26 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Break out the strawberries and cream. In the June edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle, we're celebrating the Wimbledon tennis tournament. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  5. Dog Eared

     Great Books on Slang
    Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Michael Adams, author of Slang: The People's Poetry, has already favored us with a list of five great slang dictionaries to accompany our two-part interview with him. Now he presents five more must-reads in the field of slang studies, from scholars with a diverse set of perspectives.

  6. Behind the Dictionary

     The Infinite Productivity of Slang
    Thu Jun 25 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    We've been talking to University of Indiana professor Michael Adams about his new book, Slang: The People's Poetry. Last week, in part one of our interview, he explained how slang balances the social ("fitting in") with the aesthetic ("standing out"). Now in part two, Adams considers what happens when slang gets enshrined in dictionaries, and how we're only now appreciating the endless variety of slang forms.

  7. Blog Excerpts

     Mystery-y-ish-y!
    Wed Jun 24 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    Visual Thesaurus contributor Mark Peters writes: "After years of weird-word collecting, I'm pretty unfazed by words with multiple, redundant, exuberant suffixes... However, even I was gobsmacked out of my chair when I spotted mystery-y-ish-y." Read all about the suffix-y pileups Mark has found on OUPblog.

  8. Word Routes

     Hunting the Elusive First "Ms."
    Tue Jun 23 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    In the dictionary game, when you've found a historical example of word that is earlier than anything previously found, it's called an "antedating." Looking for antedatings in American English has been utterly transformed by the advent of digitized newspaper databases. Now, hot on the heels of my antedating of jazz in New Orleans, I have another early 20th-century discovery to report: from 1901, the first known proposal for using the title Ms. to refer to a woman regardless of her marital status.

  9. Teachers at Work

     I Can See Clearly Now: "Up the Down Staircase" Today
    Mon Jun 22 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    This article is going live on the first day of my last week of school for this school year. As you read this, if you're an early reader, I am packing up my colored chalk and putting away my homework charts for the summer.

  10. Backstory

     Anna Elliott, Author of "Twilight of Avalon"
    Fri Jun 19 00:00:00 EDT 2009
    For me to say that the idea for my novel Twilight of Avalon came to me in a dream seems almost too fantastic a story to be believed. But it really is true, and it happened this way.
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