Provides information, activities, and bibliographies on several facets of language, including idioms, slang, etymology, proverbs, hink pinks, and other related topics.
A collection of five lectures that summarize the author's attempts to track the past 100,000 years of human evolution by studying the genes of modern populations.
Discusses secret writing, ciphers, and the processes of creating and deciphering secret or difficult languages. Includes thinking and writing exercises.
integrated reading and writing lessons for English language learners K-8
Kendall, Juli
2006
Outlines the classroom conditions needed for successful writing instruction with English language learners and offers sixty-eight classroom-tested lessons for kindergarten through sixth grade that will help students at all levels of language acquisition make connections, ask questions, visualize, infer, determine importance, monitor meaning and comprehension, and use fix-up strategies.
Mog, a young boy living during the Stone Age, discovers words and language and teaches his fellow cave dwellers how to talk, thus altering the course of history.
Discusses twenty-first century communication technologies, including instant messaging, cell phones, and blogs, and how they have shaped the way people read and speak, and questions the future of our digitally driven society.
