Metalinguistic Awareness, Comprehension, and the Common Core State Standards
Coordinated by the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center), the Common Core State Standards have swept the nation, and nearly every state has sanctioned the call for...
View ArticlePolysemous Prefixes over- and under- (Survey Results)
Thanks for participating in the recent survey! The prefixes under- and over- are among the top 20 most commonly used prefixes, according to the The American Heritage Word Frequency Book (Carroll,...
View ArticleInvaders of the English Language
In this post, I provide a simplified account of the birth and evolution of the English language, suitable for grades 6-12, depending on the reader. This account might be explored in chunks, with a map...
View ArticleVocabulary Development for English Language Learners (Cárdenas-Hagan)
Dr. Elsa Cárdenas-Hagan is a Bilingual Speech Language Pathologist and a Certified Academic Language Therapist with a doctorate in Curriculum and Instruction. She is the Director of Valley Speech...
View ArticleWhat is Disciplinary Literacy and Why Aren’t We Talking More About it?...
In this post, Dr. Vicky Zygouris-Coe discusses theory and offers practical applications for helping older students develop disciplinary literacy. Vassiliki ("Vicky") Zygouris-Coe is an Associate...
View ArticleReading with Your Ears: Assistive Technology, 21st Century Skills, and...
Dr. Alexis Filippini is the executive director at Mission Learning Center and a literacy consultant (website). She is passionate about literacy, especially among students who do not fit the...
View ArticleNew Survey Question: Puzzling Plurals
(The public is invited to participate in the survey, located within this post.) Most English nouns are transformed from singular to plural by adding an -s or -es to the end, as with cat -- cats and...
View ArticlePuzzling Plurals and the *Potatoe Incident
Thanks for participating in the Puzzling Plurals survey. In this post, after focusing on potato and other singular nouns that end with the open /o/ sound, I discuss the survey questions. To finish, I...
View ArticleVideos of Structured Word Inquiry (Bowers)
Peter Bowers contributed the following post. Pete is a doctoral candidate at Queen's University, Canada, with expertise in orthography and morphology, as well as critical thinking. He has investigated...
View ArticleBe Not *Dismighted
A note from the publisher: I will no longer send out email notification for each new Vocabulogic post. If you wish to be notified when a new post is published, enter your email address into...
View ArticleThe Underestimated Verb and Morphological Reasoning
To be notified when a new post is published, enter your email address into Feedburner. When Feedburner sends you a verification email, confirm to activate your subscription. I discuss verbs, including...
View ArticleWhen the Word Does Not (Appear to) Add Up
One day, gas cans were "inflammable" and the next, "flammable" and "highly flammable." Or so it seemed. I was unaware of this change until it reached a critical mass. It may have seemed sudden, but...
View ArticleEtymology Fun and a Survey Question
Learning objectives that pertain to both etymological and morphological insight are integrated into the Common Core State Standards--learning standards adopted by 45 of 50 states. I will compare how...
View ArticleEtymology & Morphology Standards (survey results)
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) provide learning goals for grades K-12. These new objectives have been adopted by 45 states (see map). In this post, I discuss the CCSS that pertain to etymology...
View ArticleVideo: The Joy of Lexicography (Erin McKean)
In the most recent post, I discussed the minimal reference to studying etymology allocated by the Common Core State Standards, and I attempted to make a case for spending some time on little word...
View ArticleSummary: A Little Book of Language, by David Crystal
Crystal, D. (2010). A little book of language. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. I discuss A Little Book of Language, written by linguistics expert David Crystal, known for The Cambridge...
View ArticleOn Politics and Word Meaning (with video)
I begin with Mark Forsyth's entertaining video clip discussing the etymology of a few political terms and conclude with George Orwell's more serious essay on politics and communication. A number of...
View ArticleMCVIP – A Multi-Faceted, Comprehensive Vocabulary Instruction Program...
This post is courtesy of the MCVIP vocabulary research team, which includes primary investigators Jim Baumann (University of Missouri-Columbia), Patrick Manyak (University of Wyoming), and Camille...
View ArticleGetting "In" to Prefixes
Greetings! This month, I wrote a guest post titled Getting "in" to Prefixes for Visual Thesaurus/Vocabulary.com. If interested, see link below. But first, stay a while and browse. Scroll down for a...
View Article"Sequestration" and the Complexity of Word Knowledge
Sequestration is upon us. Specific budget cuts will be announced, and for each nonexempt federal program, this will be carried out by some kind of Edward Sequester Hands. The incisions will be felt...
View ArticleMindful Zen of Morphology, revisited
We strolled the San Francisco wharf, stopping at the National Historic Park Maritime Museum and checking out the ships on the Hyde Street Pier. En route to the Marina Green, at Fort Mason, we...
View ArticleElection Day 2016!
(Thank you for continuing to visit the site despite my absence. Note that I updated the archives link. The widget thingy had stopped working. For links to all posts, see "POSTS" under the picture of...
View ArticleMeta Meta Meta
Metacognitive, Metalinguistic, Metamorphological The purpose of Vocabulogic is to help educators "bridge the verbal divide" that exists between those students who freely use language as a precision...
View ArticleThe 90-Minute Challenge (Dare You!) by Carla Kessler
This post is provided by Carla Kessler, Director of Learning at LogixLab LLC, and creator of Word Lab Web. Formerly a Title I Coordinator and Learning Specialist, Carla has been recognized as an...
View ArticleLeading for Literacy: A Reading Apprenticeship Approach (Book Review)
Drawing from years of research applied to adolescent literacy, Ruth Schoenbach, Cynthia Greenleaf, and Lynn Murphy have recently distilled their experimental results and methodology into a practical...
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