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  1. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 6 Gold Division Jan-Feb '08
    Fri Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2008

  2. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 7 Blue Division Jan-Feb '08
    Fri Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2008

  3. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 8 Blue Division Jan-Feb '08
    Fri Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2008

  4. Wordmasters

     WordMasters: Grade 8 Gold Division Jan-Feb '08
    Fri Jan 11 00:00:00 EST 2008

  5. Word Count

     Five Ways to Tackle the Writing You've Been Avoiding
    Wed Oct 10 00:00:00 EDT 2012
    Many of us postpone doing things we don't like. Taxes (guilty). Washing dishes (guilty, occasionally). Making the bed (at least I overcame this one 20 years ago). But the real doozie is writing. Why do so many of us defer, delay and shilly-shally about writing for so damn long?

  6. Teachers at Work

     Burning Down the House: Good Advice for Teachers
    Mon Aug 29 00:00:00 EDT 2011
    Margaret Hundley Parker teaches writing at the college level, and for the new school year she's finding inspiration from an unlikely source: songs by the band Talking Heads (and Radiohead and The Doors, too). Find out why she thinks writing teachers should start their year by "burning down the house."

  7. Evasive Maneuvers

     Intimate, Non-Vintage Nuggets of Nincompoopery
    Thu Mar 11 09:00:00 EST 2021
    Are you in the mood for a non-vintage glass of champagne or an alt tail at a micro wedding?

  8. Lesson Plans

     "Fair is Foul, and Foul is Fair": Sound Devices in Shakespeare's "Macbeth"
    Tue Apr 30 00:00:00 EDT 2013
    In this lesson, students use the Visual Thesaurus to explore the pronunciation and meaning of several key vocabulary words in Macbeth. They then examine how Shakespeare uses these vocabulary words to enhance the text through the sound devices of alliteration and assonance.

  9. Blog Excerpts

     Is a Spillion More than a Metric Buttload?
    Wed Feb 02 00:00:00 EST 2011
    In his Wordtastic column for the online magazine Good, Visual Thesaurus contributor Mark Peters exults in "The Joy of Indefinite Words," from spillion, "coined in 2010 to express the enormity of the BP oil spill," to metric buttload, "a fantastically elastic term." Read the column here.

  10. Language Lounge

     Golden Jubilee
    Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 EDT 2010
    In the Language Lounge, we raise a toast to words that are celebrating their golden jubilee, having made their first appearance in print a half century ago, in the heady days of 1960.
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