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Common at the Core: The Shared Vocabulary of State Standards for Language ArtsThu Jul 31 00:00:00 EDT 2014By Georgia Scurletis
There has been a lot of hubbub over the last few months about states defecting from the original group of 45 states that had adopted the Common Core State Standards. But how different are the state standards that have diverged from the Common Core when it comes to the teaching of vocabulary?
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The Evolution of a Word LoverWed Sep 04 00:00:00 EDT 2013
In a moving autobiographical essay in the New York Times Book Review, Joshua Henkin recounts how his bombing of the PSAT sent him on a lifelong word-learning journey, with the unlikely duo of his father and Stanley Kaplan as his mentors. Read Henkin's essay here.
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Getting to the Heart of GettysburgTue Nov 19 00:00:00 EST 2013
One hundred and fifty years ago today, Abraham Lincoln delivered one of the most famous American speeches: The Gettysburg Address, a speech that reportedly lasted less than two minutes and that he considered "a flat failure." Use this worksheet to help students use vocabulary and key lines from the address to discover Lincoln's lasting message to Americans.
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