Mary Beth Steven

My second grade granddaughter is quite a reader. Thank goodness I have experience with Structured Word Inquiry and can teach her how we spell the words she can read (and why they are spelled that way)! Here's a link for the t-shirts! www.bonfire.com/store/bcg-la...

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First ornament on the tree because it's my current favorite. No, those aren't sparkly ears. They're wings. ❤️❤️❤️

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I like a bakery roll that I can pull into pieces and then spoon some chili on before I take a bite.

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Structured Word Inquiry - with Dr. Pete Bowers 192: Dr. Pete Bowers explains "structured word inquiry," an exciting type of instruction that engages learners of all ages in making sense of our (surprise!) logical spelling system. In this episode, ...

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Oneteen, twoteen? The origins of ‘eleven’ and ‘twelve’ Reading time: 5 minutes November, at time of writing, is ticking out its final few hours, and with them, the eleventh month of 2024 is giving way to the twelfth. Aside from the awkward mismatch in …

For the end of November, shortly before the eleventh month became the twelfth, I wrote a piece all about those two numbers.

Why does English have the words 'eleven' and 'twelve'? How do they relate to 'one' and 'two'?

And what does Lithuanian have to do with all this?
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A big fluffy turkey

A guinea fowl

Etymologically speaking, turkeys are geographically confused birds. 🦃 🌎 ❓

In English, “turkey” was originally a name for what is now known as the helmeted guinea fowl (right). They was so named because the birds were imported from Madagascar by way of Turkey.

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“But there is always a November space after the leaves have fallen when she felt it was almost indecent to intrude on the woods…for their glory terrestrial had departed and their glory celestial of spirit and purity and whiteness had not yet come upon them.” L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Windy Poplars

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a man in front of a green chalkboard with the word yes on it ALT: a man in front of a green chalkboard with the word yes on it

"Yes" is a compound word.

It is made up of the Old English ge or gea, meaning "so," and si, meaning "it is," which together combined to form gese or gise, meaning "So be it!"

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Several bases derive from a Latin verb, each carrying the denotation of that original Latin verb. I love to discover word families like this one!

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Trump’s incoming SECRETARY OF DEFENSE who doesn’t wash his hands and doesn’t believe in germs.

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An infographic of 20 candy bars with considerable additional text

I’m grumpy this morning so we’re going with the origins of the names of candy. Mmmm candy

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Tricky Words – Here We Go Again! | Mrs. Steven's Classroom Blog

Sometimes I see articles about "tricky words." Those are the words that usually have the most interesting story! Here's a blog post I wrote that investigates accommodate, kaleidoscope, ceiling, and patience. mbsteven.edublogs.org/2023/05/28/t...

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These are the people in your neighborhood ...

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Without saying a word, these three are begging me not to bag them up and take them to the garage!

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