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  1. Teachers at Work

     The Visual Thesaurus in Action in the Classroom
    Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Teachers from across the country write us about how the Visual Thesaurus helps their students increase reading comprehension. Now a federally funded study is taking a closer look at the connection between the Visual Thesaurus and reading. Developed by researchers at the prestigious Education Development Center, Inc. in Boston, the study is following eighth grade students with learning disabilities who've been introduced to the Visual Thesaurus. Their findings show that the Visual Thesaurus can significantly help students struggling with reading comprehension.

  2. Word Routes

     ACPT '09: A Last Look Back
    Tue Mar 03 00:00:00 EST 2009
    The 2009 American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held this past weekend at the Brooklyn Marriott, had it all: warm cameraderie of puzzle-minded word lovers, and high drama in the finals that left the audience alternately gasping and cheering. If you missed any of our coverage of the Tournament, here's a handy recap.

  3. Language Lounge

     E Unibus Plurum
    Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Some recent cases of American dialect creep raised hackles among readers of a British newspaper; we examine the phenomenon this month in the Lounge.

  4. Blog Excerpts

     Speaking in Tongues
    Mon Mar 02 00:00:00 EST 2009

    Acclaimed writer Zadie Smith has a fascinating article in the New York Review of Books on "many-voiced" people, including Eliza Doolittle, Barack Obama, Shakespeare, and herself. Read it here.

  5. Word Routes

     Crossword Tournament '09: Sunday Report
    Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2009
    The finals of the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament promised to be a thrilling event, and it did not disappoint. Tyler Hinman emerged as the winner for a fifth consecutive time, but only after a grueling and highly dramatic round against fellow finalists Francis Heaney and Trip Payne.

  6. Lesson Plans

     Using Words as a Way into Rick Riordan's "The Lightning Thief"
    Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2009
    How can categorizing words from Rick Riordan's The Lightning Thief help introduce students to the major themes of the novel?

  7. Word Routes

     Crossword Tournament '09: Saturday Report
    Sat Feb 28 00:00:00 EST 2009
    The first day of competitive play at the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament saw 684 contestants fill the main ballroom of the Brooklyn Marriott, solving six puzzles that ranged from breezy to downright fiendish. With the interim results tallied, the scoring leaders are mostly familiar faces in the crossword world — with one notable exception: Dan Feyer, in only his second year of tournament play, is sitting pretty in the number one spot.

  8. Word Routes

     Puzzlin' Evidence
    Fri Feb 27 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Tonight the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament kicks off at the Brooklyn Marriott with "an evening of games and entertainments" — a night of conviviality before the Tournament proper begins Saturday morning. We here at the Visual Thesaurus are happy to help sponsor the Friday fun, providing complimentary VT subscriptions to the prize-winners. I'll be attending tonight (in advance of competing in the Tournament in the "rookie" category), and I'm looking forward to meeting up with friends old and new in this collegial community of diehard verbivores.

  9. Contest

     The Visual Thesaurus Crossword Puzzle: February Edition
    Thu Feb 26 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Welcome to the February edition of the Visual Thesaurus crossword puzzle. In this installment we're celebrating Black History Month. Figure out the hidden word chain and you could win a Visual Thesaurus T-shirt!

  10. Teachers at Work

     Wishing Upon a Star: Creating a Youth Culture of Readers
    Wed Feb 25 00:00:00 EST 2009
    Recently, one of my teachers sent me a link to an interview of Larry McMurtry, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Lonesome Dove, given to Fritz Lanham of the Houston Chronicle. The interview contained Mr. McMurtry's very pessimistic viewpoint that the end of book culture is near.
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