Educational Gravel from the Fishbowl
Something new I hope sticks … a weekly collection of writings around the Internet about education. Seth’s Blog: Back to (the wrong) School which reminds of one of my favorite Sir Ken Robinson talks Do Schools Kill Creativity and, of course, another one that made the rounds Changing Education Paradigms
Bairno (4 yo) has just recently mastered the /th/ sound. Until just this past Saturday all /th/s were /f/s. Earlier this summer we said goodbye to ch being /sh/ and I thought I was going to cry because so many of my sweet Bairno-isms are disappearing and marking the days of his growth and leaving [...]
Will someone please tell me when the English language dropped the -ly adverbs from its vocabulary. Adverbs modify verbs, adjectives, another adverb, or an entire sentence. Correct: He runs quickly to the store. Incorrect: He runs quick to the store. Let us break this sentence down into its parts. subject: He verb: runs adverb: quickly [...]
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