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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - May 16, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - May 16, 2012
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If "grammar is the skunk at the garden party of the language arts," how can teachers confront the skunk when it comes to explaining how verbs work?
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On Metacognition, or Thinking About Thinking
How getting to know your brain makes you a better learner
Do you say, “I better write this one down, or it will disappear from my brain?” Do you count on answers to questions slipping into your brain hours after the question arises, or phone numbers sticking in your head once you've dialed them five times? If you do, that's great. You're engaging in a process called metacognition. Metacognition means ‘thinking about thinking,’ and educators going back to Piaget believe that engaging in it helps us learn.
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Wild Words of Children's Literature, from "Runcible" to "Rumpus"
This week has seen many encomiums to the great children's book author Maurice Sendak, who died on Tuesday at the age of 83. As it happens, tomorrow marks the two hundredth birthday of one of Sendak's predecessors in playful children's literature: Edward Lear. That got me thinking about the grand tradition of wordplay in books for children, from Lear and Carroll to Seuss and Sendak.
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - May 9, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - May 9, 2012
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - May 9, 2012.
Then see Vocabulary Begets Vocabulary: The More You Know, the More You Learn to understand why learning these words will help you absorb even more as you read.
This weekend I had the opportunity to ruminate about the self-consciously self-referential word meta for NPR's "All Things Considered" and for my language column in the Sunday Boston Globe. That's an awful lot of meta-commentary, but I've still got some more thoughts on meta, or make that meta-thoughts on meta.
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