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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Word of the Day - entail |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 3:08 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd |
| entailThe dictionary definition leads toward many references to real estate and such, when I ran across it and decided to include it for WOTD it was in the context of "include" in the question "What do the requirements for the job entail?"This works with the previous WOTDs when discussing points such as "What will acquiring your goal entail." |
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| Word of the Day -acquire |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 8:55 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd |
| acquire(Click above for link to definitions)What do you need to provide you with the incentive to acquire your goals? What goal represents the epitome of what you want to accomplish?A tool that may be helpful in organizing goals is the "pocket mod" which can allow your students a way to see goals written out in a concrete fashion with some real |
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| Word of the Day - incentive |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 2:43 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd |
| incentive(Click above for link to definitions)What a great concept for back to school. Can spark conversation about goal setting for the class/day/week/quarter/trimester/semester/year. What kind of incentive is there to focusing in your class and trying to achieve a grade of their/your/their parents' choosing? Maybe there's not any kind of |
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| Word of the Day - epitome |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 2:46 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd |
| My goal with WOTD is that I'll try to find usable words and then give ways to tie them together. That's the idea anyway...WOTD 1epitome(click above for link to definitions)I love this word. This word is the epitome of how difficult the English language is to learn. There is no way without a dictionary or hearing it that you would ever guess |
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| Adjectives |
| Published: July 3, 2007, 4:49 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary |
| Sorry for the length...If you would like a pdf of this, email thetardyteacher (at) earthlink (dot) net(I've lost the citation, I am looking for it and will add it when found.)adventuroussuperstitiousdependent |
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| Word Search Maker |
| Published: July 2, 2007, 12:20 am |
| Tags: Anticipatory Set, Vocabulary, Dcd |
| Word searches can be good for initial exposure to vocabulary - and any other reason you can think of :)Or even to use Madeline Hunter: An Anticipatory Set.Click Here to see the Puzzlemaker Word Search Maker |
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| Photographs of Food |
| Published: July 1, 2007, 11:54 pm |
| Tags: Photographs, Food, Vocabulary, Dcd |
| Saskatchewan Canada Schools have pages of a variety of food photographs. We used these when needing to provide photos for assessments but these could be used for nutrition units as well.Click Here for food photographs |
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| Charades 2 |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 9:15 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary Any, Questions Asking, Sentence Making, Present Progressive, Warm Up, Verbs, Role Playing, Actions |
| Aims: -ing verbs From Three Wise Monkeys Materials: none Three Wise Monkeys gives a number of different ways to use this activity to practice various ways of using verbs in different tenses. HINTS: Use with a high-energy class only. Try for warm-up. Go to this activity |
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| Word of the Day -volatile |
| Published: August 1, 2007, 3:01 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd |
| volatileClick above to link to definition |
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| Word of the Day |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 2:54 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary, Wotd |
| portfolioclick above for link to definitionI've been reading the financial pages, which is where volatile and portfolio came from. |
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| Google dictionary |
| Published: August 6, 2007, 1:53 pm |
| Tags: Writing Tips, Google, Proper Language Usage, Vocabulary |
| is as a look-up tool for vocabulary. That’s right, Google provides an online dictionary service. Try this out for size: the define: operator. Type a word or phrase after that operator, hit the search button, and Google comes back with word meanings, synonyms, actual usage. I wish, though, that the Did you mean…? function also |
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| Voguish Vocabulary: Cool |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 12:37 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary |
| Voguish Vocabulary: Cool |
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| Talk Like A Pirate Day |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 11:15 am |
| Tags: General News, International Day, International Days, My Pirate Name, Pirate Vocabulary, Speak Like Pirate Day, Talk Like Pirate Day |
| days, my pirate name, pirate vocabulary, speak like a pirate day, talk like a pirate dayDid you enjoy reading this post? Buy me a nice cup of coffee to fuel my late night writing sessions and keep the content |
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| Washington Post's Mensa Invitational Results [Living the Scientific Life (Scientist, Interrupted)] |
| Published: October 3, 2007, 5:21 pm |
| Tags: Vocabulary Builder |
| A friend, Jerry, sent me the results of the Washington Post's Mensa Invitational. This is a competition where WaPo readers are asked to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Below the fold are this year's winners. Read them carefully. Each is an artificial word with |
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