Articles from 2011

Explore our comprehensive selection of science fiction resources and assign engaging, text-based activities to boost your students' comprehension. Continue reading...

We want to help build classroom libraries, one batch of books at a time! Learn more about who's eligible and how to enter. Continue reading...

Learn how the Bowl centers around giving more students the opportunity to experience more learning. Continue reading...

Keep the learning going strong during the upcoming break with some friendly competition! Continue reading...

Where does your school stack up on the Vocab Bowl leaderboards? Check out the latest highlights and shoutouts. Continue reading...

On his Sesquiotica blog, writer, editor, and designer James Harbeck has a regular feature that he calls "Word Tasting Notes." "Words are delicious and intoxicating," Harbeck writes. "So why not taste them like a fine wine?" Here, he delves into the history of a word we frequently hear (or mishear) during the holiday season: hark. Continue reading...

Death has been in the news lately, with the passing of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Il and former Czech president Vaclav Havel within hours of each other. Despite the very different legacies of the two world leaders, most English-language news outlets used the same wording to describe their deaths: in obituaries, both Kim and Havel simply died. But English, like many other world languages, has a rich vocabulary of terms for dying, from the blunt to the euphemistic. Continue reading...