Pupil's game helps with English grammar teaching
A pupil from Peterborough has created a game that is being used in English lessons at schools across the city.
Crawford Johnston initially designed the Creative Writing Magic Money Cards to help him understand English grammar.
The cards explain concepts such as the use of paragraphs and terms such as onomatopoeia.
"Money" points are allocated to each card and pupils are encouraged to use as many as possible to increase their winnings.
The onomatopoeia card explains it is related to "words that make the sound".
It cites examples including "the sausages sizzled "I thought it was an idea that was just going to work for me, to help me revise for exams," he explained. "I didn't want to make it boring because then people would switch off. "I wanted to make it fun - like a game - making it competitive so that children want to do it, rather than thinking that it's just another lesson." The cards are intended for pupils aged nine to 15 and are tailored to fit in with Key Stages two and three of the National Curriculum. Jonathan Lewis, assistant director of education and services at Peterborough City Council, confirmed that he had arranged for the cards to be distributed to all primary schools in the city. The Johnston family hopes the success of the game will lead to it being used in more schools around the country. Crawford, who is now 13, said he was excited by the prospect that his game might be used at other schools. "If it's going to be used around the UK, it's fascinating. It's really something," he said.
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Crawford Johnston initially designed the Creative Writing Magic Money Cards to help him understand English grammar. The cards explain concepts such as the use of paragraphs and terms such as onomatopoeia. "Money" points are allocated to each card and
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Among the ways college professors stay alive is by swimming in the current with their intellectual peers. Meaningful exchange with students and colleagues beyond one’s home institution strengthens one’s scholarship and teaching. And it contributes to a more productive institutional culture. In fact, a good deal of my scholarship and teaching has its origins in these intellectual streams of thought; and in this post I trace some of my intellectual activities beyond Keene State College during the 2010-11 academic year.
When we arrived in Bloomington I made may way to the ASLE Executive Council meeting. No longer a member of the Council, I do try to attend these meetings as a program coordinator. Sitting in reminded me of the ongoing collaborative efforts that have built and sustain this organization. Our organization has grown in size, to 1400 members, and in breadth, with members from 41 countries and with 24 affiliations with scholarly groups both in and outside of the United States. The close to 800 participants seemed a natural fit with the Brobdingnagian scale of the Bloomington campus. The buildings are enormous, and the campus spreads far and wide. The grey-white Indiana limestone buildings, some of which date back to the late nineteenth century, loom over the Dunn Woods, the Arboretum, and the rather Lilliputian Jordan River. The wooded areas on campus are littered with downed trunks and limbs from a storm on May 25th that took down over 300 trees across this nearly 2,000 acre campus.
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