If you asked my kids I’m sure they would give you a long list of all the jobs I do around the home and at work! Mums are busy people, and so is the letter Y, she has many different jobs too a…
My students are always using and referring to different writing tools. I created these individual writing toolkits with lots of free writing resources.
No such thing as sight words? How can that be? Learn how words are connected and why understanding that connection can make all the difference.
The heated comment thread on HTMLGIANT that came up when Michael Jacobson’s new book, The Giant’s Fence, was mentioned, raises a great point about how we approach language. Jacobson advocates a form of writing that he calls “asemic writing”—that is, writing with no semantic content. No one stares at a canvas of abstract art expecting to “read” a message. But when a book of asemic writing is presented, some people gripe and blow it off as a gimmick because there is nothing
Are you looking for other words for light and dark? Here's a fabulous list that includes synonyms, physical types, and associated feelings.
I recently spent a very enjoyable and inspiring 4 days on a Denise Lach course. Not a calligraphy course but more a course learning about designing with letters. I bought this book about three years ago and I have been hoping to go on one of Denise's courses ever since. I can thoroughly recommend the book. The course was based on 'foreign' scripts and as the idea was to use the letter shapes to design, it didn't matter at all that you couldn't read it or understand what you had written. I chose Runes as my script and this was one of my first attempts at using it. I also wrote the script a lot smaller and I preferred this.... ....and then I mixed the two sizes...well I did enough to get the idea of what it would look like and I liked the variation this provided. Then I took just one of the letters and the added a little variation to it. ....and then used it to create a border pattern. But border patterns are not really my thing and as I was thinking about my preferences, I realised that I would prefer to work with some more familiar letters and words. So I started to use words that had some meaning to me even if the were illegible to everyone else. Not that this was particularly illegible, I'm sure that the eagle eyed amongst you can read some of the words below. Then I varied the shape of the size of the individual letters and this made it more interesting. So lots of paper filled and the design board in this picture pretty much summarises of the first half of my course. But in the second part of the course I got freer and started linking the designs to landscapes and I'll show some of these in my next post.
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These Writing Process Posters include two full-page poster versions of The Writing Process, printable student notes, and fill-in-the-blank student notes. One is the classic pencil poster, and the other is a circle graphic organizer. They are informative, colorful, and not too cutesy for upper grades. **One teacher-buyer of this product even chose to make the parts into cards and have the students match the description and term. Great idea! *See thumbnails to view all 4 pages in this download.* INCLUDED: -Circular "map" Writing Process Poster -Colorful, pencil-themed Writing Process Poster -Line art, pencil-themed printable student notes -Line art, pencil-themed fill-in-the-blank student notes Like this design? These posters match my full-pages design Writing Process Posters: Full Pages for Bulletin Board or Clip Chart Want to SAVE MONEY??? Buy the Bundle! Writing Process BUNDLE: Bulletin Board/Clip Chart, Posters, Notes, Fill-in-Blank NOTE: The pencil-themed writing process poster is included in my product Writing Portfolio Design. *PLEASE NOTE: This product is included in the super money-saving bundle Writing and Grammar Poster BUNDLE: All My Posters Discounted! Click HERE to see all my POSTERS! **including my similarly useful and decorative Grammar Banners! © 2013 Jessica Osborne. All rights reserved. By copyright law, the purchase of this product entitles one teacher the use of the digital and printed files for a single classroom. Files are not to be shared or published (including being displayed on a website) in any way without direct permission from the author: [email protected]
The Orokin Script, or Tennobet, is largely based upon English but apparently also contains extra characters for certain phonemes including diphthongs ("io") and digraphs ("th" and "sh"). Consonants are diagonally slanted and are written left to right, while vowels and accents are written above. Some vowels and numbers resemble polarity symbols. There is also a thematic undertone to the letter construction reminiscent of Bushido calligraphy; the straight segments suggest power sword strokes and t
Learn Spanish grammar (verbs, adjectives, adverbs,...) through these fun and interesting exercises for beginner, intermediate and advanced learners.
In teaching language, errors of commission like those above are pretty common. Even more common, however, are errors of omission. If teachers simply omit an ...
