vocabulary

Visual Vocab.

One my colleagues e-mailed me a link to a site called "Weboword - Vocabulary Visually!" today. Essentially, this site is updated with adorable pictures that visually describe a word through a stick-figure cartoon. (What a great companion to Salinger's Book entitled Well-Defined: Vocabulary in Rhyme!) There are also puzzles that accompany each week's worth of… Continue reading Visual Vocab.

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Well-Defined

Salinger's book Well Defined: Vocabulary in Rhyme provides me with a way to teach my students vocabulary and poetry simultaneously.  I'm passionate about both, which is why I was so excited to get my hands on this book yesterday.  Each poem contains a title (the word) and a definition at the bottom of each page,… Continue reading Well-Defined