Sacha and Thomas

English education, nature-inspired literacy, outdoor enrichment, forest schools, and educational publications in the North Yorkshire countryside 🌿

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Building literacy, one story at a time! 🌿 #nettleanddock #scarboroughliteracyproject

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Library buildings as texts for children (blog post) - http://t.co/XCmXJXSom4 #library

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You know you're teaching in Utah when a student turns in a paper with a mistaken "in other wards" in place of the intended "in other words"!

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Want to see libraries filled with If-Then charts: IF you liked Hunger Games, THEN you will love ... #titletalk

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Writing for social change in Engl this week - several students complained about a class policy I may now overturn! Rhetoric meets audience.

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Students have trouble with note-taking 'synthesis', even at the college level. "A new idea that's not in your book," seemed to help today.

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Reading Dorian Gray; "try and" is rampant. Was I wrong? To me, "try" implies possibly unrealized acts - so "try to"? But, common usage wins!

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Sifting through hotel reviews for a quick trip to Vegas...repeated reviews with "room 'smelt' bad"...are we referring to metallurgy or fish?

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Recollection: A possessive form observed among some of my students in northern FL: "That's Kevin phone," rather than "That's Kevin's phone"

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I've noticed a recent increase of:They should "try and find"...(written informally instead of "try to find") in work emails & student papers

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This semester, I've been taking almost 30 min to grade each 4-6 page paper/with a rubric. Feedback overload:must streamline grading process!

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Up at 1:00am on a Sun. wondering whether to participate in the spelling shift from "shoo-in" to "shoe-in" -love of linguistics?or obsession?

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Early reg. rates for the NCTE Annual Convention in Orlando are good through Sept. 14. Good time to register! http://www.ncte.org/annual

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teaching college writing this fall -looking forward to new faces & even the new papers! sifting through memories of my 1st year writing exp.

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I'm so glad I learned early on in teaching that the students' voices can create learning opportunities as important as the lessons I teach.

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Does a picture really replace 1000 words? Essay:Compare 2 photoblogs- http://tiny.cc/NyKoQ and http://tiny.cc/gKkWc -is one more compelling?

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shoulda,woulda,coulda-In dialog, the oft req. Of Mice&Men uses a colloq. "could of" not could've, etc-could it be causing some usage errors?

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For The Elements of Style -love it or leave it- Happy Anniversary, Strunk & White! A taste of their advice: "Very. Use this word sparingly."

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I love English - even when it's being manipulated against its will! Found on today's exam: "...getting on my nerds!" (instead of "nerves!")

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The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor. ~Samuel Butler