Sacha and Thomas
@EnglishTeaching
English education, nature-inspired literacy, outdoor enrichment, forest schools, and educational publications in the North Yorkshire countryside 🌿
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Library buildings as texts for children (blog post) - booksandlibraries.wordpress.com/2013/08/25/lib… #library
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Libraries – through the eyes of children
Long before children learn to read words, they begin to read the world around them. Every place, every experience, every thing is a text – the car, the grocery store, a parent reading, a sta…
You know you're teaching in Utah when a student turns in a paper with a mistaken "in other wards" in place of the intended "in other words"!
Want to see libraries filled with If-Then charts: IF you liked Hunger Games, THEN you will love ... #titletalk
Writing for social change in Engl this week - several students complained about a class policy I may now overturn! Rhetoric meets audience.
Students have trouble with note-taking 'synthesis', even at the college level. "A new idea that's not in your book," seemed to help today.
Reading Dorian Gray; "try and" is rampant. Was I wrong? To me, "try" implies possibly unrealized acts - so "try to"? But, common usage wins!
Sifting through hotel reviews for a quick trip to Vegas...repeated reviews with "room 'smelt' bad"...are we referring to metallurgy or fish?
Recollection: A possessive form observed among some of my students in northern FL: "That's Kevin phone," rather than "That's Kevin's phone"
I've noticed a recent increase of:They should "try and find"...(written informally instead of "try to find") in work emails & student papers
This semester, I've been taking almost 30 min to grade each 4-6 page paper/with a rubric. Feedback overload:must streamline grading process!
Up at 1:00am on a Sun. wondering whether to participate in the spelling shift from "shoo-in" to "shoe-in" -love of linguistics?or obsession?
Early reg. rates for the NCTE Annual Convention in Orlando are good through Sept. 14. Good time to register! http://www.ncte.org/annual
teaching college writing this fall -looking forward to new faces & even the new papers! sifting through memories of my 1st year writing exp.
I'm so glad I learned early on in teaching that the students' voices can create learning opportunities as important as the lessons I teach.
Does a picture really replace 1000 words? Essay:Compare 2 photoblogs- http://tiny.cc/NyKoQ and http://tiny.cc/gKkWc -is one more compelling?
shoulda,woulda,coulda-In dialog, the oft req. Of Mice&Men uses a colloq. "could of" not could've, etc-could it be causing some usage errors?
For The Elements of Style -love it or leave it- Happy Anniversary, Strunk & White! A taste of their advice: "Very. Use this word sparingly."
I love English - even when it's being manipulated against its will! Found on today's exam: "...getting on my nerds!" (instead of "nerves!")
The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ~Samuel Butler
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