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10 Best Grammar Resources for Teachers - Grammarly Blog Every day is a grammar day for teachers, but the whole world is invited to celebrate morphology and syntax on the fourth of March—National Grammar Day. Everyone loves a party, but how can you motivate students to embrace good grammar the other 364 days of the year? These ten grammar resources might be just what you need. 1 Visual Aids If students visualize how grammar works, they will be able to understand sentence structure. For example, an infographic on Copyblogger.com explains what a dangling participle is. 2 Online Courses According to its website, the Grammar Challenger helps students “master fifty of the trickiest . . . grammar, punctuation, and word usage” concepts. 3 Interactive Whiteboard Activities Interactive whiteboards project your computer screen on a dry-erase whiteboard. 4 Games What if students could learn and play at the same time? 5 Lesson Plans If you are looking for an effective way to teach a grammar point, other teachers are happy to share what works for them.

Academic writing - Learning & Teaching - Students Academic writing is the basis of assessment at university. Its structure and referencing systems are built around the idea of universities holding the knowledge of the world and adding to this knowledge. The following links offer access to various resources to assist you in completing your assignments with proper referencing and structure of writing. IMPORTANT: There are different styles of referencing, and different versions of both Harvard Referencing and APA. 57 Literary Devices That’ll Elevate Your Writing (+ Examples) Where were you when your fourth-grade teacher first introduced you to literary devices? (Did you learn about the mighty metaphor? Or maybe its simpering cousin, the simile?) Perhaps you were daydreaming about cheese pizza and wondering what your mom packed you for lunch. Years later, you’re starting to realize that maybe you should’ve taken better notes back then. Because you’re a writer now, or trying to be, and it’s kind of embarrassing when your friends (or worse, your kids) come to you and ask: “What’s an onomatopoeia?” And all you have to say is: “An onomatopoeia? Never again. Not with this handy-dandy list of 57 (count ‘em!) But let’s back up. Starting with… What are Literary Devices? Literary devices are strategies writers use to strengthen ideas, add personality to prose, and ultimately communicate more effectively. So who should care about literary devices? You, of course. How are Literary Devices Different From Rhetorical Devices? So what’s the difference? Alright, enough questions. 1.

Placeholder names in English and other languages | OxfordWords blog If you follow politics, you will have noticed that politicians often invoke the cliché of the ‘man in the street’. You may have heard them referring to the average Joe, Joe Bloggs, John Public, Joe Sixpack, etc. when talking to an audience, addressing everyone and no one, rather than someone in particular. The English language has several of those placeholder names and, more often than not, they denote a male person – implying that the average person is a man, the everyman. There’s also the famous John Doe – the name for an unidentified person that you would come across in a legal context. Here, a female equivalent actually exists: Jane Doe. If you want to talk about ordinary people in general, you may also call them Tom, Dick, and Harry in English, although the Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase & Fable notes that this Victorian term is particularly attributed to people unworthy of notice. Of course, placeholder names also exist in other languages. Italian Swedish German

Homework Tips - Help With Homework KidsNews | A ready-to go literacy resource for teachers using current daily news stories for students in the classroom. theconversation If you struggle to understand the teenagers and young people around you when they call their schoolfriend a durkboi and try to cadge some peas, you are not alone. The idea that they are communicating in a different language from their parents has been the subject of excited chatter on parenting websites and among some researchers. A defining characteristic of youth slang is thought to be its faddishness – the fact that terms have a rapid turnover, quickly coming in and out of fashion and then disappearing before parents and teachers have time to decode them. The reality is more complicated: novelty is all-important but for each generation the expressions they encounter will be new to them. So although each age group and almost every local clique do invent their own words, there is a common core of slang that persists for years: such as cool, wicked, solid and sick for good, and chilling for relaxing. A wealth of words for the same thing Variations on a theme

Billy Daly, 1997 How to create a graphic novel with Super Sidekicks For parents and teachers: This is a fun unit of work for years 3-5 that will improve visual literacy, trigger imaginative thinking, improve fine motor skills and increase vocabulary. It is appropriate for independent learning and can be done in an hour, though some students will find they enjoy the activities so much, they will want to keep going. For students: Follow the steps below and by the end of it, you’ll be on your way to creating your own graphic novel, which is a book that is a little bit like a comic. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Your sidekick – draw a picture of them somewhere in this sceneA word that is a sound – draw itA speech bubble and write in what the sidekick is saying If you feel like colouring it in, go ahead. 8. That’s the end of our lesson today but you can continue the Super Sidekicks fun by reading the books, which can be bought online from all good bookstores. P.S. Teachers and parents, further resources around this book can be found here:

10 English words that are difficult to pronounce When you learn a foreign language, there are always certain sounds that are a challenge to get right and certain words that you must struggle to get your tongue around. With English, the erratic spelling system means that even if you have no trouble with the sounds themselves, you may often mispronounce words anyway. To help you out with some of the trickier and more readily-confused ones, here are 10 English words that are difficult to pronounce for learners and some tips for getting them right. (1) Vegetable /ˈvɛdʒ tə bəl/ and comfortable /ˈkʌmf tə bəl/. Neither of these words has anything do with tables. They each have three syllables, not four, and the second and the third are the same for both. (2) Squirrel /ˈskwɪrəl/. (3) Says /sɛz/. (4) Leicester /ˈlɛstər/. (5) Rural /ˈrʊər(ə)l/. (6) Culture /ˈkʌltʃə/. (7) Law /lɔː/. (8) Fortunate /ˈfɔːtʃənət/ and unfortunate /ʌnˈfɔːtʃənət/. (9) Recipe /ˈrɛsɪpi/ and receipt /rɪˈsiːt/. You might also be interested in… – 35 common English proverbs

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