"Vygotsky rejects the aphorism that “thinking is silent speech”.
Intelligence and Language have different roots. Intelligence is there, in
however limited a form, even among chimps, and is found among all the
peoples of the world in much the same degree and is exercised by
young kids before they can talk.
A Dramatic Reading of Adolescent Literature
J. Lea Smith and J. Daniel Herring
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and
see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and
studies the masters. Read! You’ll absorb it. Then write.
William Faulkner
To meet the challenge of attracting middle-level students to the literate
life, language arts educators focus instruction on process. This design
creates a learning environment where students, along with their teacher,
construct literacy as they participate in authentic acts of reading,
writing, speaking, and listening. The pivotal instructional components —
reading workshop and writing workshop — immerse the adolescent
learner in 1) regular chunks of time to write and read, 2) self-selection
of writing topics and reading materials, and 3) meaningful dialogue with
peers and teacher (Atwell, 1987). Within this context, a fire is kindled to
ignite adolescents to write during writing workshop and read during
reading workshop.
Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. 2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards, and other awards too.
"for gifted and talent students & people with enquiring minds!... word puzzles; quizzes; creative thinking; creative writing; anagrams; homophones & homonyms; crossword puzzles; weird pictures; Aesop's Fables; fractal thinking; an ET hamburger; weird creatures; the amazing Mandelbrot fractal; proverbs and sayings; dragons; the Unpeople behind the dark; curious words and spellings...etc. Looks fun.
The teachers' guide to this new website explains that it is designed to be a space where young refugees and migrants can improve linguistic and digital literacy. It is also designed to be a space for interaction, conversation and community. Young people from around Australia (and the world) are welcome to use the site to communicate with each other, share stories and practise language in context.
Teaching resources for less commonly taught languages
The Edinburgh Associative Thesaurus (EAT) is a set of word association norms showing the counts of word association as collected from subjects. This is not a developed semantic network such as WordNet, but empirical association data.
An interactive version and a downloadable version of the word association thesaurus are available below.
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Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. Covering the grammar rules and word choice guidelines that can confound even the best writers, Grammar Girl makes complex grammar questions simple with memory tricks to help you recall and apply those troublesome grammar rules. 2007 Winner Best Education Podcast – Podcast Awards, and other awards too.
Teaching resources for less commonly taught languages
Flash word cluster generator.
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