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The Poet and the Dictionary
Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 EST 2008
Do you feel called upon to justify the activity of reading the dictionary? Seek no further! This month we visit a poet who whiled away many hours with her eyes glued to the fine print, and ended up having quite a lot to show for it.
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Dog Eared
Inspiring a Writer
Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 EDT 2008
Beryl Singleton Bissell, whose Backstory we featured on Friday, is the author of the critically acclaimed The Scent of God. We asked her about the books that have most influenced her writing life. She graciously wrote us the following:
I am a huge lover of books and have many favorites, but for inspiration the following have had the greatest impact on my life as a writer.
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Teachers at Work
Got Books? Get Your Class To Read More
Wed Dec 12 00:00:00 EST 2007
Shannon Reed is an award-winning playwright who teaches high school English to a large pack of bright young women at a private school on the beach in Queens, New York. She graciously contributed this column:
Despite a general predilection towards awesomeness, like any teacher, I have my blind spots. I'm terrible at looking interested during school assemblies. I show little patience when a student can't remember a basic procedure after about a month. I do not like to teach the intransitive verb; I get confused and confuse the girls. My top blind spot? I'm terrible at motivating my girls to read more.
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Candlepower
The Rare, Overstuffed "Turduckenym"
Thu Sep 16 00:00:00 EDT 2021
Most portmanteaus are blends of two words. When three or more words are involved, things get tricky.
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Word Count
Are You Addicted to Your Smartphone? Is the Pandemic Making It worse?
Wed Apr 22 00:00:00 EDT 2020
Most people will spend five years and four months on social media over their lifetime. Are you addicted to your smartphone, and has it gotten worse than ever?
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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?
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Teachers at Work
How Letter-Writing Can Empower Students
Tue Sep 06 00:00:00 EDT 2011
In my column "The Dead Letter Classroom," I argued that we needed to be teaching students how to write letters. In this piece, I'm going to tell you specifically how I do it and how I use letters to teach English skills in a timely, relevant manner.
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Word Routes
Get Your Shovels Ready!
Thu Jan 08 00:00:00 EST 2009
The countdown is on for the American Dialect Society's selection for 2008 Word of the Year, the oldest and most prestigious WOTY event in the land. The ADS selection will happen Friday, January 9, at the group's annual meeting, held this year in San Francisco. The voting is open to the public, so Visual Thesaurus readers in the Bay area are welcome to drop in for the WOTY fun. I'll be attending (I'm on the ADS Executive Council), and I have a few favorites I'll be lobbying for. One of them is a word that offers a ray of light in our current moment of economic doom and gloom: shovel-ready.
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Word Routes
"The Web" at 20
Fri Nov 12 00:00:00 EST 2010
Twenty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau authored the proposal that launched "the World Wide Web," and the English language has never been the same. In my On Language column for The New York Times Magazine this Sunday, I take a look back at the inception of "the Web" and its many linguistic offspring over the years. As a master metaphor for our online age, the gossamer Web has proved remarkably resilient.
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Word Count
Hamming It Up: Too Many "Bad Actors"
Tue Jan 07 00:00:00 EST 2014
When it gets cold and wintry, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said, "alongside acts of goodwill and kindness, a major storm like this also brings out bad actors who take advantage of their customers." (If they're lousy at pretending to be good Samaritans, why are they a threat?)
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