Word game

challenges and only read two words incorrectly. Her current level of instructional/frustration was reading the second passage The First Snow. The passage was more challenging for Carmen to read, her reading was choppy,…

reading fluency. 1. Word accuracy comes before speed. To work on word accuracy the teacher can practice word work and phrase work with Emma to build her fluency and help her read and recognize words. The phrases can be part of the reading passages that are being worked on to help her read the passage more fluently and work towards automaticity. 2. Instruction on morphological awareness and semantic mapping. Semantic maps have the core word at the center and then branches that leads words that…

When we think of the words nerd and geek, we think of a smart person with freckles and thick-framed glasses. They are usually bullied by the athletic people of a school and are at the lowest rung of the social ladder. But why do we also think about that same person being harmed and ridiculed? Why can’t we praise their intelligence and use it to improve our society? These questions are argued in Leonid Fridman’s “America Needs Its Nerds.” In order to do this, Fridman uses rhetorical strategies…

According to Lutz, “it is a language designed to alter our perception of reality and corrupt our thinking” (352). In other words, Lutz believes that the intentional misuse and abuse of the English language is intended to deliberately manipulate and sway people in a direction that they would not normally take. My feelings are that if people do not know the difference between…

‘dog’ and ‘cat,’ then progresses to ‘fish.’ Past language samples that detail the students’ expressive vocabulary showed that the students had acquired the first three target vocabulary words both receptively and expressively for the ‘pets’ theme. The next vocabulary word in the sequence of pets is ‘bird,’ and this word was confirmed as an appropriate target as the students were unable to perform either a receptive task of pointing at a bird whenever told by the teacher or expressively labeling…

Preposition is a word or a group of words which brings out the correct relationship between a noun/pronoun or between a verb and a noun/pronoun or an adjective and a noun/pronoun. Prepositions are important structural words. They have been called, ‘hooking words’, since they are used to hook nouns, pronouns and word-groups on to preceding words and word-groups including sentences. The purpose of the hooking is to mark the relation of the noun, pronoun or word-group with another word or…

The list of nicknames that have stemmed from my given name of Marygrace is actually quite long when I think about it. The most obvious but least used nickname being Mg, while other names such as Mig and Mur are what dominate people’s minds when they speak to me. Other nicknames have come and gone such Pigeon and Magnesium. However, overall each nickname I have gone or go by represents an important part of my life. Mig is typically not a common name or even a common nickname. The only person…

a group of words, phrases and sentence. The tone is used in the following example: if we read this sentence in a rising tone, this sentence means that I can’t hear, please tell again. Although in a falling tone, we will understand I am sorry and please forgive me. 二． Syntactic ambiguity Syntactic ambiguity is a situation where a sentence may be interpreted in more than one way due to ambiguous sentence structure. Syntactic ambiguity arises not from the range of meaning of single words but from…

Jane and Sarah will be very hurt if they aren’t invited to your party. You won’t be able to keep it a secret. They are sure to hear about it by word of mouth. (“In the Loop:A Reference Guide to American English Idioms“) Down in the mouth is an idiom which refers to the way one’s mouth turns downwards when one is unhappy. 1. Jeff has been down in the mouth since he lost his job. 2. You look so…

often goes amiss in the translation. In fact, the very first chapter of the novel includes a homograph of the word “digne” both as a location for the Bishop of Digne and an adjective describing the his uncle as “un digne curé”, playing on the double meaning of the word “digne” in French (Hugo 8; vol.1). In other languages, however, this meaning is lost as “digne” translates into two separate words, in which the uncle is simply “a worthy priest” (Hugo, and Hapgood 7). Though minor, puns such as…