If "grammar is the skunk at the garden party of the language arts," how can teachers confront the skunk when it comes to explaining how verbs work?
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Do you say, “I better write this one down, or it will disappear from my brain?” Do you count on answers to questions slipping into your brain hours after the question arises, or phone numbers sticking in your head once you've dialed them five times? If you do, that's great. You're engaging in a process called
metacognition.
Metacognition means ‘thinking about thinking,’ and educators going back to Piaget believe that engaging in it helps us learn.
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Since we launched the Vocabulary.com Challenge, we've been thrilled to see so many of you come to Vocabulary.com to play. And play. And play. As we keep welcoming new players, those players keep sticking with the game, racking up ever-more-impressive scores. We're excited that you're excited!
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This week has seen many encomiums to the great children's book author Maurice Sendak, who died on Tuesday at the age of 83. As it happens, tomorrow marks the two hundredth birthday of one of Sendak's predecessors in playful children's literature: Edward Lear. That got me thinking about the grand tradition of wordplay in books for children, from Lear and Carroll to Seuss and Sendak.
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Nothing shows the power of Vocabulary.com better than a test drive of our Dictionary’s advanced search feature. And with the few clicks, you can turn these sophisticated advanced search results into a Vocabulary List.
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