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  1. 01-24-2007, 12:20 PM #1
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    Quote Originally Posted by Veronica View Post
    Well what do you expect when our children are spending hours a day watching TV or playing video games?

    That's not how vocabulary gets built.

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    I agree - that why we dont have TV. Well we have a TV to watch the occasional DVD but its not connected to anything else.
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    My students actually love vocabulary time. Today we talked about how quadruplets are often born prematurely.

    I have a kid who is never punctual and who's handwriting is illegible. You can bet he knows those words. And they have started describing characters in novels as obstinate.

    The day I pretended my hand was adhered to the wall was pretty humorous. We're working hard to augment their vocabulary.

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    But there's a lot of live language being invented all the time.

    Think of words like Thread hijack or blogosphere.
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    oooh, Stegner, Stienbeck ... Zora Neil Hurston if you haven't read Their Eyes were Watching God yet, go read it.
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    Zora Neil Hurston if you haven't read Their Eyes were Watching God yet, go read it.
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