61. ReadWriteThink: Lesson Plan word play allows students to learn language in a creative environment. Write on the board a list of the words and short phrases the class uses to http://www.readwritethink.org/lessons/lesson_view.asp?id=134

62. The E-Writer's Place Writers Resources - A Little Word Play words are a writer s blood. A good writer knows a lot of words. But most of all,he knows how to use words wisely. With some word play, he can come up with http://www.ewritersplace.com/a351.php

Home Articles Columns Workshops ... Support Us Subscribe Book The Writer's Book of Hope by Ralph Keyes Product Create an Online Bestseller Market Sew News HELP FOR WRITERS Click here to advertise with us for 2 whole months for only $35! Write Any Book in 28 Days... Or Less! New course reveals fresh secrets. Click here to learn more. Write short stories and get PAID Click here to advertise with us for 2 whole months for only $35! Home Columns Printer-friendly page E-mail this article A Little Word Play by Lizzie R. Santos Words are a writer's blood. A good writer knows a lot of words. But most of all, he knows how to use words wisely. With some word play, he can come up with ideas, he can create catchy titles and give a unique flavor to his writings. By juggling words, he can weave a tapestry of sentences and paragraphs. Here are some ways to work with words: Snapping - You can use this technique when you don't know what to write about. On a piece of paper, write the following words: Object Emotion Relative Sport Body Part Number Food Item Adjective Verb Appliance Pet Clothing Disease Place Brand With a snap of your finger, write the first object, emotion, relative, sport...and so on...that come to mind. From the second list you have, pick one word that you would like to develop into a topic you'd like to write about. For example: for the word "relative," I first thought of "cousin." From "cousin," I remember my cousin Trina and how we used to play every summer when they came over and stayed with us for two whole months. I can now write a story on that or an essay about cousins or a feature article on how to spend summer vacations wisely. Got the point?

63. Between The Lions . Word Play | PBS Kids Here s a game called word play for you to play anywhere. You can also makeup your own just write them down and shuffle them into the pile. http://pbskids.org/lions/printables/games/wordplay.html

Here's a game called Word Play for you to play anywhere. It's a reading and acting game for two or more people. The game needs at least one person who can help read the words. Print the words and cut them out. Or copy them onto different pieces of paper. Shuffle them, and make a pile. Keep the writing face down. The youngest player goes first by taking the top word and reading it without showing the other players (unless they need help reading). The player must now act the word for the others, without saying anything. If the word is 'hop', then hop! If it's 'flip' then flip! Keep on acting until someone guesses what the word is. Whoever guessed correctly takes the next word from the pile and takes the next turn. Below are words you can use. They are all action words (verbs). You can also make up your own - just write them down and shuffle them into the pile. Keep them as action words to keep the game easier for little kids. Grownups: Don't be afraid to take a turn, too! bounce chew climb crawl dance draw flip float hop knock laugh leap open peek peel pop sing pull melt grow push rip shake shrink sip smile sniff spin step stretch swim tumble wriggle vanish squeeze cry You may also enjoy the computer-based version of this game!

64. Fiction Factor - "Play It Again, Sam" - Redundancy In Writing play It Again, Sam Redundancy in writing By Tina Morgan One of the mistakesI make most often with my writing is repeating words. http://www.fictionfactor.com/articles/redundancy.html

Subscribe to our Free Newsletter! Subscribe "Play It Again, Sam" - Redundancy in Writing By Tina Morgan On second thought, please don't! One of the biggest mistakes I see beginning writers make in their longer works is redundancy. Repeat words, phrases, ideas and character traits. The problem doesn't show up as much in shorter works, but it rears its ugly head quite often in novel and novella length works. Repeat Words: One of the mistakes I make most often with my writing is repeating words. I use the same adjective, adverb, verb or noun repeatedly in one paragraph. Before I know it, all of my characters are doing the same thing. Think that's not a problem? After all, all of the characters are supposed to be doing the same thing? Consider the following example. Aydan stood by the fire, his shoulders hunched as if to ward off a blow. Riona walked over to stand beside him. She placed a gentle hand on his arm. Her presence went unnoticed. Danaar glowered at them from where he stood by the door. Every sentence but one uses a variation of the word 'stand'. Makes for a very boring and terribly redundant description. But what if I did it this way?

65. YourDictionary.com • Word Fun & Word Games Write your name in wild, exotic alphabets, syllabaries, and ideographics. Jim Wegryn s website with every kind of word play in the book—with a couple of http://www.yourdictionary.com/fun.html

About Store Register Contact ... More Candid Reviews of Miami Hotels at TripAdvisor.com The Gameroom Language is the glue that holds our culture together: family, work, even thoughts and dreams are built on words, books, and conversations. It is strange, then, that we are not even conscious of using language and are often surprised by it. Now you can explore all the complexities and nuances of language in the yourDictionary libraries, such as the one below, or by playing games with words and phrases here in the gameroom. Nothing is more playfully human or humanly playful as language. So you like word games, do you? Well, you have come to the right place. We have the richest assortment of crossword puzzles on the planet: anagram puzzles, cryptic puzzles, Roman and Arabic numeral puzzles, study puzzles for geography, physics, astronomy, Spanish and the Bible, puzzles with holiday messages, with graphics and web links. Now we have crossword puzzles for kids. We also have encrypted word puzzles and a new invention: fill-in crossword puzzles! Choose your favorite now! 20 Different Kinds of Crosswords Word of the Day Crossword Puzzles Word of the Day Semantic Scramble Word Jungles ... Crossword Puzzles in Other Languages The YDC Non-Writing Center Everything You Need to Avoid Writing Anything Ever yourDictionary.com's Hot Mod Automatic Memo Generator

66. Richard Lederer's Books Challenging and entertaining word play for children 913 years of age. Write your name, address, titles, and quantity of each book you d like sent. http://www.verbivore.com/rlbooks.htm

Richard Lederer's Books and Tapes I am always delighted to provide signed copies of any of my books or audiotapes, inscribed according to your instructions, as gifts to family, friends, or yourself. In their reviews , such illuminati as Sidney Sheldon and Robert Fulghum have penned warm words about my words about words. Humor The Revenge of Anguished English How the innocent, the negligent, and the pompous mangle the English language. (Book of the Month Club, History Book Club, Quality Paperback Book Club). Hardcover @ $26.00. The Cunning Linguist (St. Martin's Press). New American Edition. 300 pages of good, clean, dirty word play for appreciative punographers. Trade paperback @ $14.00. Anguished English (Wyrick, Dell). The largest selling language bloopers book ever. Trade paperback @ $13.00/Mass paperback @ $7.50. More Anguished English (Dell). The sequel to Anguished English and almost twice as large. Mass paperback @ $7.50. Fractured English (Pocket Books). The newest in the series and jam packed with fluffs and flubs and goofs and gaffes. Trade paperback @ $14.00. The Bride of Anguished English (St. Martin's Press). A Bonanza of Bloopers, Blunders, Botches, and Boo-Boos. Book of the Month Club. Handsome hardcover at $25.00. Trade paperback at $14.00.

67. KPBS - A Way With Words A Way with words, airing on Saturdays at 4 pm and rebroadcasting Sundays at word play CROSSwordS, volumes 1 and 2 (100 original puzzles); THE WRITE WAY http://www.kpbs.org/Radio/DynPage.php?id=12

68. EServer.org Accessible Writing Drama, a collection of plays, modern works and classics Sparks, a publisherof fiction, poetry, music, art and spoken word http://eserver.org/

69. Instructional Materials In Writing Included in the article are links to web sources of screen plays. AnalyticWriting Model including ideas and content, organization, voice, word choice, http://www.cln.org/subjects/writing_inst.html

Instructional Materials in Writing Below are the CLN "Theme Pages" which support the study of Writing. CLN's theme pages are collections of useful Internet educational resources within a narrow curricular topic and contain links to two types of information. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme. English Grammar and Style Theme Page Journalism Theme Page Plagiarism Theme Page Spelling Theme Page Writing Resources Here are a number of links to other Internet resources which contain information and/or other links related to Writing. Please read our Academy Curricular Exchange: Language Arts Grades K-5 Grades 6-8 Grades 9-12 Language Arts mini lesson plans from Academy One/Columbia Education Center. Writing lessons are interspersed through all three grade sets. AskERIC Lesson Plans - Language Arts: Writing Composition Over 50 lesson plans in Writing Composition, organized alphabetically and covering various grade ranges in K-12. Communication through Writing These writing instructional units intended for middle school students may serve as inspiration for designing your own teaching units. Contents include: Newswriting, Non-Fiction Writing, Fiction Writing, and Poetry.

70. Write & Email Santa Claus A Christmas Letter play Christmas trivia word games. Also, holiday jokes, software, Visit EmailSanta.com write Santa Claus your Christmas letter for free! http://www.emailsanta.com/

~ Email Santa ~ Official Countdown To When Santa Claus Arrives At Your House! The elves reindeer have been busy making fun things ... to do ... just look to the right , there's something for you !! There's games and great letters and pet emails too! But shining through, Santa wishes your Christmas dreams come true Merry Christmas!! Dear Santa, my first name is... Ã n email to Santa Claus? Yes, kids its true! Jolly St. Nicholas wants to hear about You!! From the North Pole, Santa will write your reply, faster than red nose reindeer Rudolph can fly!! MERRY CHRISTMAS Your browser does not have scripting enabled. Please use the Site Map to visit other pages at EmailSanta.

71. Borlase Guides - Writing Letters To Editors Screenplay writing is utterly different than stage play writing, and the differenceand Now how you do it in 200250 words (letters to editors)? http://www.rodborlase.com/Guides/Letters.html

Writing Letters to Editors by Rod Borlase , JD, MLS ( RBC Homepage For permission to use This is a follow-up essay to another one among these Borlase Legal Research Guides , namely, " If You Learn Nothing New Law School but How to Write, You'll Be Ahead of Your Class! " There, I urge you to take up the hobby of writing letters to the editor and op-ed articles as a writing exercise. Here, I want to talk about writing Letters to the Editor Every art has its form and, by trying one's hand at different forms, each impresses one with subtleties. Screenplay writing is utterly different than stage play writing, and the difference and distance between young adult and children's stories is actually enormous. For instance, I write screenplays for fun, but still look upon stage play writing as some sort of " holy grail Letters to the editor are also quite different from other writing genres, and actually quite different even from op-ed writing. Different skills, features and trades attach to each, and each is an art in itself. Both put a premium on brevity, clarity, clean, pithy, interesting writing. 1) Basically, letters to editors must

72. Word Play This is a mustvisit site for comedians, speech writers, punsters, toastmasters, wordles Home of word Fun, word Games, word Puzzles and word play! http://www.wolinskyweb.net/word.htm

"Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank." Eddie Cantor Check out my other sites: Measure 4 Measure Serendipitous Sites Part of the Homewood Public Library Web Site Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government The name says it all. http://www.ulib.iupui.edu/subjectareas/gov/docs_abbrev.html Acronym Database A searchable database of acronyms and abbreviations and their expansions. http://www.ucc.ie/info/net/acronyms/index.html Acronym Finder A database of acronyms and their meanings. Contains acronyms about: general topics, computers, technology, government, telecommunications, and the military including Department of Defense, Air Force, Army, Navy, and Coast Guard acronyms. http://www.AcronymFinder.com/ Action Verbs A list of verbs to help you brag about your accomplishments on a resume.You can choose to view the list alphabetically or by skill categories. http://www.earlham.edu/~career/resume/verbs.html Alan Cooper's Homonym List Words, like "caret" and "carrot" that are pronounced the same, but are spelled differently, and that have different meanings. This list was compiled with a true appreciation for "the prime numbers of the English language."

73. Internet Resources For Use In English/Language Arts Classes In Elementary School Click on that character and just start writing your story! The Wacky Worldof Words If you love to play around with words you have come to the right http://www.internet4classrooms.com/lang_elem.htm

Daily Dose of the Web Links for K-12 Teachers On-Line Practice Modules Language Arts - Elementary Links verified 8/26/05 Muti-Links Teachers Professional Resources American English Pronunciation - (Fantastic site) Lessons are available on quite a few topics. Each lesson provides the pattern, gives examples, provided practice (a lot of practice), and ends with a quiz. Each word in the quiz can be pronounced for the student by clicking on the speaker icon. This site would be good for Language Arts or ESL classes. AOL@school presents language arts resources for Primary school. Topics included are; General Foreign Languages Reading Textbook Activities , and Teacher Resources Characters - Select a Character to write about, and then click on that character to start writing your story! You can print the story when you finish. (may be blocked by some state filters) CompassLearning Sample Activities - grades K-8 sample activities. Scroll to your grade level. Also has Math, Sci and SocSt games. Cursive: Lowercase - Alphabet Animation - To see the animation, move your mouse over a letter on this page. (from the site, Handwriting for Kids)

74. Playwriting 101 If you re writing a musical or a play with music, if words are to be sung, theyneed to be set apart from spoken dialogue. Lyrics are written in ALL CAPS, http://www.playwriting101.com/

Playwriting 101 What We're Reading Introduction to Playwriting by Jon Dorf Solving Your Script by Jeffrey Sweet The Dramatist's Toolkit by Jeffrey Sweet Introduction This playwriting tutorial was written by playwright and screenwriter Jon Dorf, whose plays have been produced in more than 25 states and on three continents. He received his B.A. Magna Cum Laude in dramatic writing and literature from Harvard College and his MFA in playwriting from UCLA, where he won the Hal Kanter Comedy Writing Award and the Marty Klein Comedy Writing Award. Jon Dorf is available as a script consultant. He is the creator and instructor of the course Introduction to Playwriting at Writers University. He can be contacted via jon@jondorf.com . His Web site is at jondorf.com Table of Contents The Play's the Thing Types of Plays Different Theater Spaces Story Structure ... Conclusion - The 15th Commandment The Play's the Thing The stage is a magical place. Live actors and a live audience make for an immediacy no other art of the written word can duplicate. The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that the dramatic "poet" (that's us) had the power and the duty to "teach and to please," and it's a tradition that lives on to this day. Sounds great. But how do you do it? Before your play can teach and please anyone, you have to write it, rewrite it (probably over and over again), submit it to theaters and hope that one of them will want to produce it. It can be a long road, particularly because now more than ever, plays tend to get plenty of development (i.e. readings and workshops) before getting fully produced. Good

75. June, 1991 This kind of word play is most likely to emerge when the writer or thinker works At the same time, once a writer learns word play with the computer, http://www.fno.org/fnojun91.html

From Now On The Educational Technology Journal Vol 1 . . . No 6 . . . June, 1991 Editor: Jamie McKenzie, Ed.D. Contents Measuring Results: What happens to student writing with the word processor?" District Technology Assessment Form Measuring Results: What happens to student writing with the word processor? by Jamie McKenzie A survey of research describing the impact of word processing on student writing often turns up confounding or disappointing results. One Canadian study (Owston, 1990) reported in this month's literature search concluded: (1) the computer-written work was significantly better in overall quality and better on the competency and mechanics subscales of the evaluation instrument; (2) students produced significantly longer pieces of writing on the computer than off; (3) students reported very positive attitudes toward computer-based editing and writing; (4) there were no macrostructural differences in writing across media; and (5) only one surface feature, spelling, was found to be significantly better in the computer-written work. In this particular study, the eighth grade students had already been using word processing for a year and a half. We learn that they prefer the computer and do somewhat better work when they use one, but we don't learn how their writing might have changed for the better because of their year and a half.

76. Writingclasses.com - Creative Writing Classes In NY And Online - Fiction, Screen Free Playwriting Workshop with Richard Caliban; Saturday, Aug 27 100wordwriting CONTEST Enter our 100-word writing contest for your chance to win a http://www.writingclasses.com/

What's New? Online Classes Home How Online Classes Work Sample Online Class ... Writer's Toolbox "The best teaching technique I have encountered since I came to America." - Ekaterina Svetova Graphic Designer More Student Quotes Here One-Day Workshops Sunday, Oct 16 Sunday, Nov 13 Free Events - All Events Wednesday, Sep 28 Free Fiction Writing Workshop Sunday, Oct 2 Bryant Park Great Read in the Park Wednesday, Oct 5 Coliseum Books Free Creative Writing 101 Workshop Win a Free Class Gotham Books Gotham Shop ... Gift Certificates Welcome to Gotham Writers' Workshop. Teaching more than 6,000 students a year, Gotham is the leading creative writing school in New York City and the United States. Featured classes starting soon Online and in New York City: 10-week Workshops beginning the week of Monday, Sep 19 include: Fiction Writing Nonfiction Writing Screenwriting 10-week Workshops beginning the week of Monday, Sep 26 include: Business Writing Fiction Writing Nonfiction Writing Screenwriting 10-week Workshops beginning the week of Monday, Oct 3 include:

77. Writing A Brain Teasers Quiz Quiz play this quiz and learn what you need to know to get your quiz approved! You are writing a Fractured Words quiz on soft drink brands. http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz103918be7c98.html

Writing a "Brain Teasers" Quiz Crafted by Trivia Architect crisw Category: Brain Teasers < Return to Homepage Introduction: "Want to get your Brain Teasers quiz online? Play this quiz and learn what you need to know to get your quiz approved!" Question 1: There are many kinds of quizzes that aren't accepted in Brain Teasers. Which of the following is a type of quiz that is accepted? Math problems Logic problems Vocabulary quizzes General trivia Question 2: A word puzzle quiz with a movie-related theme should be submitted to Brain Teasers. Yes No Question 3: The Brain Teasers category accepts scrambled word quizzes. Yes No Question 4: The Brain Teasers category allows quizzes where all the answers are fill-in-the-blank (FITB). Yes No Question 5: You write a cryptic quiz where all of the answers are football teams of Great Britain. Is this acceptable in Brain Teasers? Yes No Question 6: What is the primary problem that people have in writing a good riddle quiz? Riddles with FITB answers that have too many possible answers Riddles that are too easy to answer Riddles that are too difficult to answer Riddle quizzes aren't accepted in Brain Teasers Question 7: Which of the following would be an acceptable question and answer for an FITB riddle question?

78. PoeWar.com Writing News / Short Stuff » Blog Archive » Play With Words play with words, even in serious stories. Choose words the average writer avoidsbut the average reader understands. Too often, writers suppress their own http://www.poewar.com/news/archives/2005/03/01/play-with-words/

PoeWar.com Writing News / Short Stuff news and thoughts about writing, freelancing. publishing and the media Play with Words Posted by John Hewitt @ 11:42 am. Filed under Publishing Excerpt: Play with words, even in serious stories. Choose words the average writer avoids but the average reader understands. All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake, but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond. The good news is that the act of reporting always expands the number of useable words. The reporter sees and hears and records. The seeing leads to language. View Article at Poynter link Comments are closed. The building blocks of magazine publishing Magazine Publishing Portal Launching [powered by WordPress If you wish to contact John Hewitt regarding this site, write to poewar@gmail.com Please link to Poewar Poewar.com : A site about writing that features articles, freelance jobs, writing employment, news, fiction and poetry. Sponsors Other Sites Freelancing Other Jobs Fun Sponsor Tags Navigation About Writing Writing Employment Freelance Jobs Fast Fiction ... Writer's Guidelines Categories Writing News News Reviews / Profiles Publishing News ... Editing Search Blog Recent Posts Dude, You Got Dell'd

79. Writing Dialogue That Speaks Can a play exist without the accompanying words? Of course not. But just writinga bunch of words into sentences and paragraphs guarantees nothing. http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/playwriting/111896

Home 22 Communities What's New Free e-Courses Search Suite101.com Within: Playwriting Writing and Publishing New Topics Writing a Home Business Personal Essay Successfully Writing for Money Comedy Writing ... More... New Articles Manifesto Writing Markets Part 1 A Bun In the Oven A New Lease on Life ... More... New Discussions A Bun In the Oven money making Table of Contents Table of Contents ... More... My Recent Articles Original Casts Writing Query Letters Punch Up Your Play Script With Help From ... Advertising?! Related Online Courses Introduction to Creative Writing Introduction to Writing Software Documentation Becoming a Professional Writer Writing Dialogue That Speaks Home Literature and writing Writing (Rhetoric), collections and criticism of more than two literatures Writing (Rhetoric) and collections of literary texts from more than two literatures Author: Dave Brandl Published on: October 31, 2004 Welcome Page My Articles Discussions for You My Bookstore ... Community Bookstore Subscribe to My Topic What is theater without dialogue? Can a play exist without the accompanying words? Of course not. But just writing a bunch of words into sentences and paragraphs guarantees nothing. It is the crafting of the words that helps determine success or failure.

80. Playwriting-in-the-Round Each class will write three acts, each for a different play. When the originatingclass receives word processing Telecommunications Internet Relay Chat http://nschubert.home.mchsi.com/education/pir/indexmain.html

Project Coordinator: Jonathan Fairman Creative writing teacher Cleveland School of the Arts Project Design: Nancy Schubert Curriculum and Instruction B.A.S. Degree Program University of Minnesota Mary Todd Kaercher Drama and English teacher Grandview Middle School Project Summary Three age-grouped classes, teamed in a learning circle, collaborate to write the scripts of three different one-act mystery plays. Each play will consist of (3) scenes, with one scene written by each of the classes in the circle. At the conclusion of the project, each class will have three scripts that can be used for reader's theater and other dramatic activities. Details. Each class in the circle writes Scene I of a play during the first week. On Friday they email the script to the next group. During Weeks 2 and 3, each class writes Scene II of the play they receive. On Friday of the third week they email this script to the next class. During Weeks 4 and 5, each class writes Scene III of the play they receive. On Friday of the fifth week they email this script to the next class. Each class will write three acts, each for a different play. When the originating class receives their completed play, they may develop the technical lists. The completed plays are emailed to everyone in the circle. Process Emails.

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