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Extra Practice Sheets for Diagramming
By Mark Roth on July 5, 2010 at 2:25 pm
New!! As announced in the May-June 2010 newsletter from Christian Light Publications:
Extra Practice Sheets — Diagramming
Does your student struggle with sentence diagramming? This book of reproducible sheets can be used for…
- students unfamiliar with diagramming, or
- students needing extra practice, or
- teachers needing a refresher course.
More info here: Christian Light Education
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Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs
By Mark Roth on July 5, 2010 at 8:52 am
Do you have homonyms, homophones, and homographs figured out?
I didn’t…until I landed on this information: Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs. Below is my version of the info on that page.
Homonyms
This is the umbrella which shades homophones and homographs, the clown tottering around on the stilts called homophones and homographs, the…well, never mind.
Homophones
Homophones are words that sound alike, but have different meanings and spellings. Examples: do, due, dew, doo and I’ll, aisle, isle and read, reed
When I learned them (and taught them) we called ’em homonyms! Since those good ole days, apparently “they” have come up with another term….
Homographs
Homographs are words that are spelled the same, but have different meanings and may have different pronunciations. Examples: wind, wind and read, read and fix
Yeah, fix. I thought that one up all by myself. 😯
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Sound Literature
By Mark Roth on July 2, 2010 at 8:07 am
Dear Friends of Rod and Staff,
We at Rod and Staff have an ongoing desire to produce only literature that is safe and upbuilding to our homes and churches. This calls for earnest effort, due to our humanity and God’s standard of truth and holiness. We humbly seek His wisdom in the work.
Literature is defined as “all writings dealing with a particular subject; all writings of a particular time, country, etc.; all writings in prose or verse [printed matter of any kind].” The wise man observed that “of making many books there is no end” (Ecclesiastes 12:12).
But what is sound literature? We will try to understand this by first looking at what is not sound. Some years ago, there was an article in a popular news magazine entitled “Civil Religion.” Among other things, it stated that such things as going to church, honesty, and heaven are desirable, not because of what God says, but because they fit into the American way of life. If that were true, literature would be sound if it harmonized with historical facts or the ideas and ideals of the average American mind. But such thinking even throws away the vital principles upon which their culture is built. Truly we need a better guide than that.
What sound literature is and isn’t: read on!
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