Tag: Words

  • AND – is not a connecting word!

    So often, when reading children’s writing, I come across the word, and. When I challenge the children about it, they tell me it’s a connecting word. Well, I say it’s an adding word. It adds sentences together, like a sticky, gunky goo, making them grow longer and longer, and windier and windier. What’s wrong with…

  • IMMISERATE – Word Of The Day – build your word power

    I heard this word used on the radio to describe the conditions the people of Haiti have had put upon them by the earthquake. It struck me as a very powerful word. Immiseration the imposition of poverty, not something you would want to do to anyone unless you were really mean or plain careless. Learn…

  • EXPONENTIAL – Word Of The Day – build your word power

    Basically this means getting faster, but it should really have a mathematical or statistical element to the increase in speed. So tomorrow you may go twice as fast as today, and the dafter you may go twice as fast again. Kind of like how we are depleting the resources of Planet Earth. Learn a new…