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Bundlr - Spelling and Grammar Guide - 0 views

  • Progressive Language Skills
  • practice
  • build on
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  • find out what has worked and do more of that
  • foundational language skills and content
  • new skills are best acquired when students notice and understand
  • language acquisition
  • Students must have a strong command of the grammar and usage of spoken and written standard English to succeed academically and professionally.
  • grammar
  • usage
  • devise instructional approaches to replicate this success for other un-mastered language content and skills
  • explicit instruction
  • scaffold instruction
  • build upon prior knowledge
  • this comma and period inside the quotation marks business is strictly American usage.  The British don't do it that way.  They are inclined to place commas and periods logically rather than conventionally, depending on whether the punctuation belongs to the quotation or to the sentence that contains the quotation
  • that this comma and period inside the quotation marks business is strictly American usage.  The British don't do it that way. 
  • differentiate
  • comprehensible
  • oral language
  • input
  • pay attention to how you’re using the active and passive voices
  • even more important is the matter of consistency
  • usage issues
  • skill and content areas
  • we want to make sure our best feet are forward. That means making sure errors like typos or poor grammar don’t detract from what we have to say
  • make a conscious effort to use them in a way that produces clear, direct, and compelling posts
  • help the student practice skills and content already learned
  • Teach language form and meaning concurrently.
  • active listening
  • inside the U.S., periods and commas go inside quotation marks
  • Think about each sentence
  • what do you want to emphasize?
  • How can you construct a sentence that gets your point across and is engaging to read?
  • The rules in American English are different from the rules in British English
  • meaning influences form
  • Form influences meaning
  • In America, we use a hard-and-fast rule that was supposedly designed by compositors to protect the tiny commas and periods (1, 2). We always put periods and commas inside quotation marks.
  • interactive discussion
  • inform the student as to “what is correct and what is not” via immediate feedback
  • provide a meaningful rationale
  • analyze how writers and speakers use the language skill and content
  • Some emphasize the verb as the key part of speech, showing students how the sentence is built around it and how vivid verbs create vivid sentences.
  • It’s one thing to read about the rules, but another to put them into practice.
  • When combining exclamation points and question marks with quotation marks, however, Americans follow the same logical system as the British. Where you place the other marks relative to the quotation mark depends on the context of the quotation.
  • If the whole sentence, including the quotation, is a question or an exclamation, then the question mark or exclamation point goes outside the closing quotation mark; but if only the part inside the quotation marks is a question or exclamation, then the question mark or exclamation point goes inside the closing quotation mark.
  • In Britain, they use rules that require the writer to determine whether the period or comma belong with the quotation or are part of the larger sentence.
  • think about the function of voice when evaluating your writing
  • In American English, periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation mark
  • semicolons, colons, asterisks, and dashes always go outside the closing quotation mark
  • question marks and exclamation points require that you analyze the sentence and make a decision based on context
  • if you are an American, you need to keep your commas and periods inside your closing quotation marks, where they belong
  • why, you may ask, do they belong there?
  • Writing
  • Spelling/Vocabulary
  • only American printers were more attached to convenience than logic
  • Grammar/Mechanics
Sunny Jackson

Question-Answer Relationship (QAR) | Classroom Strategies | Reading Rockets - 0 views

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Felder & Soloman: Learning Styles and Strategies - 0 views

  • REFLECTIVE
  • Reflective learners prefer to think about it quietly first.
  • "Let's think it through first" is the reflective learner's response.
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  • prefer working alone.
  • reflective learners
  • A balance of the two is desirable.
  • think of possible questions or applications
  • review what you have read
  • write short summaries of readings or class notes in your own words
  • will enable you to retain the material more effectively
  • INTUITIVE
  • intuitive learners often prefer discovering possibilities and relationships.
  • you gain understanding of material by hearing classmates' explanations and you learn even more when you do the explaining.
  • intuitors may be better at grasping new concepts and are often more comfortable than sensors with abstractions
  • intuitors don't like "plug-and-chug" courses that involve a lot of memorization and routine calculations.
  • If you overemphasize intuition, you may miss important details or make careless mistakes
  • need to be able to function both ways.
  • try to find the connections
  • Take time to read the entire question before you start answering and be sure to check your results
  • VERBAL
  • Verbal learners get more out of words--written and spoken explanations. Everyone learns more when information is presented both visually and verbally.
  • Good learners are capable of processing information presented either visually or verbally.
  • Write summaries or outlines of course material in your own words.
  • intuitors like innovation and dislike repetition.
  • GLOBAL
  • Global learners tend to learn in large jumps, absorbing material almost randomly without seeing connections, and then suddenly "getting it."
  • global learners may be able to solve complex problems quickly or put things together in novel ways once they have grasped the big picture, but they may have difficulty explaining how they did it.
  • What makes you global or not is what happens before the light bulb goes on.
  • strengthen your global thinking skills by relating each new topic you study to things you already know.
  • outline the lecture material for yourself in logical order.
  • you need the big picture of a subject before you can master details
  • get an overview
  • immerse yourself in individual subjects for large blocks
  • Try to relate the subject to things you already know
  • your understanding of how it connects to other topics and disciplines may enable you to apply it in ways that most sequential thinkers would never dream of.
Sunny Jackson

Quora - 0 views

  • Why do people who love reading love it so much?
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A Dream Within a Dream - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • The poem questions the way one can distinguish between reality and fantasy
Sunny Jackson

Wikipedia:Verifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • a reader's ability to check cited sources that directly support the information in an article
  • It must be possible to attribute all information in Wikipedia to reliable, published sources that are appropriate for the content in question.
  • Verifiability
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  • Neutral point of view
  • All quotations and any material challenged or likely to be challenged must be attributed to a reliable published source
  • The citation should fully identify the source, and the location within the source (specifying page, section, or such divisions as may be appropriate) where the material is to be found.
  • The burden of evidence lies with the editor who adds or restores material.
  • Editors might object if you remove material without giving them time to provide references. It has always been good practice to try to find and cite supporting sources
  • consider adding a citation needed tag
  • article
  • paper
  • or book
  • creator
  • document
  • publisher
  • published sources with a reputation for fact-checking and accuracy
  • Sources should directly support the material presented
  • appropriate to the claims made
  • academic and peer-reviewed publications are usually the most reliable sources
  • Material from reliable non-academic sources may also be used, particularly if it appears in respected mainstream publications.
  • university-level textbooks
  • books published by respected publishing houses
  • journals
  • magazines
  • mainstream newspapers
Sunny Jackson

Mythopoeic Awards - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • outstanding works in the fields of myth, fantasy, and the scholarly study of these areas
  • Unfinished Tales by J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess
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  • Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
  • Anansi Boys by Neil Gaiman
  • The Crown of Dalemark by Diana Wynne Jones
  • Dark Lord of Derkholm by Diana Wynne Jones
  • A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
  • The Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
  • Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling
  • The Road to Middle-earth by T. A. Shippey
  • Reason and Imagination in C. S. Lewis by Peter J. Schakel
  • The Return of the Shadow by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christopher Tolkien
  • The Annotated Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Douglas A. Anderson
  • Word and Story in C. S. Lewis, edited by Peter J. Schakel and Charles A. Huttar
  • A Question of Time: J. R. R. Tolkien's Road to Faërie by Verlyn Flieger
  • Roverandom by J. R. R. Tolkien, edited by Christina Scull and Wayne G. Hammond
  • J. R. R. Tolkien: Author of the Century by Tom Shippey
  • Tolkien's Legendarium: Essays on the History of Middle-earth, edited by Verlyn Flieger and Carl F. Hostetter
  • Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth by John Garth
  • War and the Works of J.R.R. Tolkien by Janet Brennan Croft
  • The Lord of the Rings: A Reader's Companion by Wayne G. Hammond and Christina Scull
  • The Company They Keep: C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien as Writers in Community by Diana Glyer; appendix by David Bratman
  • The History of the Hobbit by John D. Rateliff, Part One: Mr. Baggins; Part Two: Return to Bag-end
  • Tolkien, Race, and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits by Dimitra Fimi
  • Strategies of Fantasy by Brian Attebery
  • Twentieth-Century Fantasists, edited by Kath Filmer
  • The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, edited by John Clute and John Grant
  • The Myth of the American Superhero by John Shelton Lawrence and Robert Jewett
  • Four British Fantasists: Place and Culture in the Children's Fantasies of Penelope Lively, Alan Garner, Diana Wynne Jones, and Susan Cooper by Charles Butler
  • One Earth, One People: The Mythopoeic Fantasy Series of Ursula K. Le Guin, Lloyd Alexander, Madeleine L’Engle and Orson Scott Card by Marek Oziewicz
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