Seven dirty words

Decoding is when children have the ability to apply his or her knowledge of graphemes (letters) and phonemes (sounds) to pronounce print correctly (“Word Decoding and Phonics,” n.d.). Nevertheless, having child understand the relationship between graphemes and phonemes allow him or her to identify acquainted words quickly, as well as learn new words (“Word Decoding and Phonics,” n.d.). Moreover, if I were a kindergarten or first grade teacher, I would use the following created text book: I Can…

Just like selecting words for vocabulary instruction there are many different philosophies of ways in which is consider teaching high quality vocabulary instruction. The two I am going to highlight on Marzano and Graves. Dr. Robert Marzano suggest that there are 2,800 basic vocabulary terms students should know. He suggest placing those terms into semantic clusters. That means teacher places words that are related together, in order to build scaffolding. Then from those words the teacher can…

How long does it take you to remember something? If you are cramming for a test do you feel like you remember things faster? If I give a participant an easy fifty word essay, then how long would it take for the participant to remember and recite it? Are there any tactics that help your brain store information better? Let's see what you can learn from this paper, but also what you can remember from it later. The reason or purpose I chose this topic to do research on because I sometimes forget to…

to I don’t want to look at them as a cheater, or a liar. Therefore, I wouldn’t want to see any political member or anyone for that matter that has plagiarized there work to get were they are at. After, reading about John Walsh and how he took word for word from another’s work to obtain a degree and being that he is a Senator, was disappointing. However, in his case it seemed as though it was a stressful time and only happened once, although, it still doesn’t justify, but does show what people…

It’s mention in the article that about 3,000 papers from freshman college students were studied and the top five errors found were: no comma use after an introductory element, pronoun reference, no comma in compound sentence, wrong word, and no comma in a non-restrictive element. Using the results of these studies, business communication professors may be able to help their students overcome these common punctuation errors. Reimold, Cheryl, and Peter Reimold. “Tips for Making Writing…

First she needs to work ono sounding out unfamiliar words. Based on the inventory, she tends to either skip the word all together or take the first two letters of a word and say the first word that comes to mind with the same beginning letters; whether it makes sense or not. Since she has trouble sounding out words, this interrupts her fluency, which in-effect leads to lower comprehension percentages. This is basically a cycle that…

air’, ‘love is like a rose’, and ‘slept like a baby’, are all phrases that are immediately recognized as problematic clichés. Many words and phrases in the english language have either lost their original meaning, or have been replaced with something new and, at times, inappropriate. A classic example that will be looked at during the next four hundred and fifty words is one of Aristotle’s thirteen fallacies; “begging the question.” Begging the question is a fallacy in which a type of…

works and it’s what successful people do. X, “x-ray our own lifestyles”. In case you’re wondering, yes, that one is a direct quote from the YouTube commencement speakers speech, because let’s face it, there really aren’t that many inspirational x words. We should Y, yearn to always gain knowledge and feed our minds. Lastly, we must Z, be zealous and enthusiastic in our approach to this life. We only get one shot guys, make the most of…

There are often words or concepts that people tend to never have a solid definition for. These words are known as abstract words. Some examples of an abstract word would be love, hate, beauty, faith, and etc. The word that I will be discussing today will be justice. Justice is one of those words that can have several different meanings. A lot of individuals tend to have different ideas of what the abstract word “justice” means to them. Justice is one of those words that doesn’t have a solid…

drawbacks. Getting rid of words from our human vocabulary can be helpful in that it makes speaking more efficient, easier to learn and to converse with, and removes bad words that are not okay in our society. But getting rid of excess words can also be a setback if it takes away words that help us describe stuff better and more vividly, If we were to start taking away unnecessary words from our vocabulary, that would be good because that means we would be taking away words that we do not…