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As teachers begin to grapple with the demands of the Common Core State Standards, they may be overlooking a discrete language standard living in the shadows of those major shifts.
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Ten Words from Today's NY Times - October 3, 2012
Ten Words from Today's NY Times - October 3, 2012
Learn Ten Words from Today's Times - October 3, 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.
Hi! Hey! Ho! Yo! Ahem. Good day, ladies and gentlemen, umm, I'd like to address you today about the silly little words that we, umm, use without knowing if they're words or not: words like hey, hi, ho, yo, ahem, and umm. Here's hoping you don't find the topic ho-hum. (Oy, is anyone out there listening?)
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List of the Week: Helena B.'s Hardest SAT Words
Vocabulary.com user Helena B. created a new list this week: "300 Most Difficult SAT Words."
She describes her list as the "hardest out of the 1000 most common SAT words," and suggests that learning them is the "safest way to guarantee a good mark in the critical reading and writing sections." Are you up for Helena B.'s challenge?
Voting for a Vocabulary.com panel at SXSWedu closes this Friday. If you haven't voted yet, please do so here!
A few weeks ago, we featured a video of comedian John Branyan's Elizabethan-style retelling of The Three Little Pigs. Vocabulary.com has since had the opportunity to interview John Branyan and find out how he did it. Here's a transcript of our conversation.
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