Teacher A said to teacher B, “About memory and learning new vocabulary by students I can assure you that memory can be trained.  It’s in some way like chewing gum: it can expand itself. I can tell you that my memory has expanded: I see a new word once and I can remember it for long.  This is due to studying and memorizing for long.” / Photo ...

Teacher B said to teacher A, “I knew a teacher who used to look up and learn some of the words that came up in some text he had just read, like ‘eviction’. In this way he pulled off a big plan of enriching vocabulary.” / Photo from: litstack com. colorful pile of books   

Merriam-Webster's Word Central has the Games section with  Alpha-bot, Robo-Bee, BIGbot, Jumble Kids games - nicely designed and funny, these games will help students improve their vocabulary skills in an easy and active way. The games are a good thing to make vocabulary practice the students' favourite.

What is a food chain or a food web? What is a carnivore, herbivore, omnivore or scavenger? To answer question like these I made a set of food web science definition cards for my students. Each card has a picture of an organism to represent each term along with a simple, easy to understand definition. See the sample picture below. It ...

What is a food chain or a food web? What is a carnivore, herbivore, omnivore or scavenger? To answer question like these I made a set of food web science definition cards for my students. Each card has a picture of an organism to represent each term along with a simple, easy to understand definition. See the sample picture below. It ...

BIG, BODACIOUS WORDSThe idea came to me as I was stuck in sleet-induced, rush hour traffic, on my way to work. This is springtime in Colorado! Whilst pondering the question of how to improve the content of my young writers, I saw a bumper sticker with ''supercalifragilistic....etc. '' and the idea was born. Some choice words while sitting in ...

Teacher A said to teacher B, “If no words, no communication.  I knew a teacher, a committed one, who used to assign as homework to study lists of vocabulary (and other homework). His students achieved to learn a lot of words, usual words, common words, so those students were able to speak in English more fluently than just single ...

There are many words we can use in place of the words 'say' and 'said' which would be more suitable in some sentences than others. It’s all about using the right word in the right place. These words are: explain, grumble, answer, mutter, plead, reply, shout, ask, exclaim, cry, drawl, sputter, stammer and whisper. I created a bulletin board ...

There are many words we can use in place of the words 'say' and 'said' which would be more suitable in some sentences than others. It’s all about using the right word in the right place. These words are: explain, grumble, answer, mutter, plead, reply, shout, ask, exclaim, cry, drawl, sputter, stammer and whisper. I created a bulletin board ...

So I thought over spring break I would catch up on all of my blogging, find cool new activities to do with my math students, and create some new ISN pages.  Well needless to say that never happened... We covered Quadrilaterals in Geometry class, however we only went with regular quadrilaterals for the time being. My students love charts, and ...