Louis: EBR Writers Club Presents "
Break Word," a "2010" Celebration in Poetry, Dance, Jazz & Exhibits in a Conch/us/nest-raising Atmosphere
Letters to the editor
Its members have been featured at the National Black Arts Festival and in the anthology
Break Word With The World.
The art of black writers collectives
She created Lexonik, a programme of activities to
break words down to syllables and their origins, in response to the needs of underachieving students in the North East of England.
Why we should still read to our teenage children
Sami Boudelaa, Arabic is processed very differently from others languages because it demands that speakers constantly
break words down into their root parts and assess their contexts to properly understand meaning.
Can Arabic make you smarter?
When writing by hand, use hyphens to
break words at the end of a line in order to maintain an orderly margin.
Chapter 31: Punctuation II--commas, colons, semicolons, parentheses, brackets, hyphens, dashes, and slashes
A new set of materials for teaching reading includes activities that
break words down into letter and sound pairings, while also showing how to combine those sounds to form words.
7 apps that teach literacy skills: visual and sonic aids can help students with language disorders improve their reading, writing and speaking
It is easier for children to do this before they
break words down further to individual letter sounds.
'I hear with my big ear... ' Si,n Smith and Helen Williams, from Cardiff Council's Literary Scheme, explain the importance of phonics when teaching children how to read
Watch the kindergarten teacher who asks her students to bounce up and down to
break words into syllables, or the history teacher who asks Roger Sherman to stand and speak for the Colonies, or the math teacher who passes out the old abacus.
Discipline tips from drama teachers
The findings support the notion that the reading and spelling deficit, characterized by an inability to
break words down into the separate sounds that comprise them, stems in part from a failure to properly integrate letters with their speech sounds.
Brain scans unravel roots of dyslexia
They struggle to
break words down into units of sound.
City leads the way in dyslexia help; Liverpool schools are at the forefront of the efforts to tackle a condition that is often misunderstood
Hyphens are also used to
break words at the end of a line.
Reconsidering some prescriptive rules of grammar and composition
Hyphens are used between words that need to be joined for some reason - for example, an "up-to- the-minute" report - and to
break words at the end of a line.
Word Processors and Multiple Authors
"Each child in my program is taught to
break words down," says Pastor Archer.
Spelling's queen bee
I will
break words up the way I'd split a flint I will grind words down like marble, like pigments So their dust rises to the nostrils of the god Fine-ground as flour for our daily bread Or powder on the cheeks of beautiful And less beautiful women, butterflies' pollen, salt Of the spindrift piercing the doors of the sea Like the air where a billion lightbulbs palpitate Like the grain of time burst in the hourglass I will set free those atoms of speech before Words themselves break me up, grind me down, Burn me to ash, scatter me, bury me
Solemn vow
The cause of dyslexia is a hotly debated issue, but most researchers agree that the primary difficulty for those with the condition is a lack of phonological awareness-an inability to
break words into individual phonemes.
Let the games begin; brain-training video games and stretched speech may help language-impaired kids and dyslexics