“A Life Well Illustrated” – Mark English Retrospective November, 2017 [...]Read More...
This little boy is surely bound to be an original, out-of-the-box fellow. He took matters into his own hands during a group performance of “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” by snatching the microphone and singing something completely different – “The Imperial March” from the legendary “Star Wars.” The video was captured approximately a year ago but posted on Twitter only this week along with the caption: “Sometimes when I need to laugh, I think about the time my cousin’s son took over a group rendition of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star to sing the Imperial March.
Teaching students to write dialogue can be tricky. Use this quotation marks anchor chart and worksheet freebie to introduce the concept to your students!
This tutorial shows your students the universal proofreading marks and how to use them. Plus, you'll get examples and an exercise to reinforce the information.
Imprimatur menace a refers to a mark of approval or distinction. Isn't it a great feeling when you get an A grade on a test? Wordling for Kids.
Proofreading symbols are like a foreign language to most people; they are often considered to be an indecipherable series of squiggles, letters, and symbols that mean absolutely nothing to the regular guy or girl on the street. Unless you know what these proofreading marks actually mean, using them to improve and develop your writing is ... Read more
I’ve arranged this top ten in a completely subjective, completely nerdy manner: how excited am I to write with it?
The beautifully illustrated book Lost in Translation showcases a collection of words you never knew you needed before.
Punctuation! Names of 14 common punctuation marks in English with useful punctuation rules. Learn how and when to use these punctuation marks correctly with examples and ESL worksheets.
Proofreading is one of the last phases of the writing process where you carefully seek out and correct grammatical and typographical errors in your final draft before presenting your work to an aud…
I find marks of authorship very compelling. Signatures, underlining, editing notations, doodles. Physical objects that say something in thought happened here. Tattoos. I wasn't interested in tattoos for a long time. I didn't object to them, I just wasn't really interested one way or the other. This may have had something to do with only seeing very boring ones - eagles and MOM. I started to get interested when my best friend was thinking about getting one - I think she had it narrowed down to an owl or a green man. She never did it, but by then I was curious and started noticing them more - especially since I was starting to meet really interesting people and they had much better ideas for inking themselves than eagles and MOM. When I came across a book about literary tattoos, I lost my heart to the whole idea. There's a vast world of amazing and beautiful words-on-skin. There are thousands of quotes that I love, but none of them seemed like the right thing for me. Last fall, it finally came to me - the right idea for beauty, symbolism, permanence, impermanence and a life marked by love of words. After I move, I'll get a tattoo of proofreader's marks, in red, down my right side. The simple, elegant, universally recognized symbols of a work in progress. I can't think of anything more appropriate to who I am. Images by me and from pinterest, fuckyeahliterarytattooes, tattoolit, and literary tattoos: a novel of flesh.
Among the 16 most commonly used punctuation marks are the period, question mark, exclamation point, and comma. These, along with the other 12, are all listed neatly and explained for you here.
This is the 20 mark ‘critical evaluation’ question – the one where the question seems to be longer than your answer. But don’t worry – this question is supposed to be …
In my experience students find this poem quite difficult, but if they persevere they end up loving it! Here are some activities you can try to teach this brilliant poem. Begin with the title Ask student to work
