Archive for April, 2004

04-04-28

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?pub=infobike://ira/rrq/2004/00000039/00000002/art00004
Original Title: Ingenta: article summary — Developmental-spelling research: A systematic imperative
 
Looks like an interesting ethonographic study of phonics, spellig, individualized instruction, and reading policies.

Developmental-spelling research: A systematic imperative  Reading Research Quarterly   1 April 2004, vol. 39, no. 2,   pp. 216-228(13)  Invernizzi M.; Hayes L. Abstract: A team of first-grade teachers began […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/
Original Title: ibiblio - Poetry and Prose!
 
I talked with Kevin a long time ago about free, open textbooks. I wasn´t thinking American, I was told, which I agree after seeing how powerful the textbook industry is. Is the Open Book a success? Judging from the 2 textbooks available, no.

The Open Book Project

The […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.internet-encyclopedia.org/wiki.php?
Original Title: Wikinfo | Main Page
 
“written from a sympathetic point of view?” I don´t think that´s a good idea.

Main Pagefrom Wikinfo, an internet encyclopedia

New River Gorge Bridge

Welcome to Wikinfo, or Internet-Encyclopedia, an international project to create a universal open content encyclopedia. The site was launched in July, 2003, and it is a […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.songsforteaching.com/Reading.html
Original Title: Using Music to Teach Reading Skills

Building Reading & Language Arts Skills

*Sound clips are available from these pages.

Sounds of Letters, Digraphs, and Blends  *
    Initial letter sounds from A to Z.  Long and Short Vowels.
     Consonants, Blends and Digraphs
   
Songs for Building Phonological Awareness *
     Concepts of […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.songsforteaching.com/LauraBrenda2~ns4.html
Original Title: Promoting Literacy Through Music: Songs for Teaching.

Promoting Literacy Through Music
Laura Woodall and Brenda Ziembroski

          
The successful acquisition of reading and writing in early childhood depends on a solid background in oral language skills. What better way to gain knowledge and confidence in oral language than through music? Oral language is an interactive […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.songsforteaching.com/KZSpelling.html
Original Title: Spelling Songs: Lyrics and Audio Clips

Spelling Songs Kit
from Kidzup´s “Learning Beat” Series
1.   Silent “e”
2.   t-i-o-n
3.   Change “y” to “i”
4.   I¡¯m i-n-g
5.   Contractions
6.   “y” sounds like “e” and “i”
7.   e-s-t¡¯s the best
8.   Three sounds of “e-d”
9.   i before e
10. Double Trouble Patrol

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04-04-27

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://songsforteaching.net/songstoteachletters.htm
Original Title: Using Alliterative Songs to Teach Letter Sounds
 
The SongsForTeaching.Net has some great teaching plans, such as this.

Using Alliterative Songs to Teach Letter Sounds
Nancy Schimmel and Fran Avni

or
Perfect Practice!
Classic Classroom Capers!
A Little Alliteration goes a Long Long Way! 
           
“A little alliteration is a lot of fabulous phonemic fun!!!  Tongue-twisters are […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.songsforteaching.com/NameGameAvni.html
Original Title: “NameGame”?– A song to help children recognize and recite rhymes.
 
I like the instruction for two reasons — (a) that it gives instructions (by example) of how to do a form of Pig Latin in this context, and (b) it encourages using of non-words. Lexical constraints — by which I mean that […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.songsforteaching.com/PA.html
Original Title: Phonemic Awareness Songs (Phonological Awareness Songs)
 
These are not only fun, but would be great examples for my OT-PA project.

Songs That Build Phonological Awareness
(Including Phonemic Awareness)

Phonemic awareness is not the same thing as phonics.  Phonemic awareness deals with sounds in spoken words, whereas phonics involves the relationship between sounds and written symbols.  […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://labs.google.com/sets
Original Title: Google Sets
 
This is an older toy, but still cool — given any set of object names, it will generate a list in the same category, although it never spell out the category name (maybe they don´t have a hierarchical structure). Should forward it to Greg Murphy.

Automatically create sets of items from […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.google.com/apis/reference.html#search_results_format
Original Title: Google Web APIs - Reference
 
Google API provides a date-restricted search — the corresponding feature in the Google Advanced Search does not seem to work — that may be used to track a person, a term, a paper, etc. The Search Result (XML) contains an estimated number of matches and whether the […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.changedetect.com/changedetect/reduce-bandwidth-website.asp#form
Original Title: reduce bandwidth websites webmasters changedetect
 
by way of Jared (http://www.garyfeng.com/blog/doc/002343.html).
 
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We are the providers of ChangeDetect.com, and the owners of the “ChangeDetect” […]

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04-04-27

Tags: Original URL: http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/Expand/ingenta?pub=infobike://bpsoc/bjep/2004/00000074/00000001/art00001
Original Title: Ingenta: article summary — Neuroscience and education
 
Here is an interesting study cited by Goswami:
 

Finally, PET studies have shown that the functional organization of the brain differs in literate and illiterate adults (Castro-Caldas et al., 1998). Portuguese women in their sixties who had never learned to read because of lack of access […]

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04-04-26

Tags: Original URL: http://roa.rutgers.edu/view.php3?id=158
Original Title: VIEW ROA 146
 
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Overall, the study demonstrates that the notion of “minimal distortion” operative in argot formation is none else but the principle of minimal violation of a set of ranked constraints, the fundamental tenet of Optimality Theory.
This is exactly what I would propose for PA tasks — that both […]

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04-04-26

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04-04-26

Tags: Original URL: http://www.unc.edu/~jlsmith/
Original Title: Jennifer L. Smith | Home

 

Jennifer L. Smith  Assistant Professor, Linguistics

How to contact me

Department of Linguistics 322 Dey Hall, CB #3155 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3155 USA
Office phone: (919) 962-1474 E-mail:

 

Research interests and selected publications Jennifer L. Smith

My main interest is theoretical phonology […]

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04-04-26

Tags: Original URL: http://linguistlist.org/issues/8/8-1079.html#1
Original Title: LINGUIST List 8.1079: Pig Latins

English: insert /ab/ between onset and rime of each syllable“Maby nabame abis Babill” for “My name is Bill”.(also with /^b/, called “ubby dubby”; sample at very end)gibberish: insert “itherg” after each consonant“Bithergy thitherga witherrgay” for “by the way”bicycle: insert @s (schwa s) after every consonant:“h@se t@sold m@sse” […]

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04-04-26

Tags: Original URL: http://linguistlist.org/cgi-bin/search.cgi
Original Title: Search Result

Search Result

2.405: CALL, Dictionary, Pig Latin, Anapolis contact

2.405.1 : Language Learning Programs
2.405.2 : Jones´ Dictionary
2.405.3 Peter Salus: igpay atinlay
2.405.4 “Robert N. Shull”: ANAPOLIS CONTACT
2.406: Pig Latin (language games)

2.406.1 Allan C. Wechsler: igpay atinlay
2.406.2 Vicki Fromkin: Re: Queries
2.412: Perfect, LDC, Pig Latin

2.412.1 “John Nerbonne”: Re: The Perfect Passive […]

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04-04-26

Tags: Original URL: http://linguistlist.org/issues/8/8-1570.html
Original Title: LINGUIST List 8.1570: Double-Dutch and Youthese / Pig Latin (2)

Ben Zimmer:Another good source is:     Sherzer, Joel (1982). Play Languages: With a Note on Ritual     Languages. In: _Exceptional Language and Linguistics_,     L.K. Obler and L. Menn, eds. New York: Academic Press.This cites a great deal of the literature on play languages, aswell […]

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