teaching literacy.
Ask me anything   Submit   ever since i was a little girl, words have danced through my head and in my heart.

Make-or-Break Verbs - NYTimes.com →

A sentence can offer a moment of quiet, it can crackle with energy or it can just lie there, listless and uninteresting.

What makes the difference? The verb.

Verbs kick-start sentences: Without them, words would simply cluster together in suspended animation. We often call them action words, but verbs also can carry sentiments (love, fear, lust, disgust), hint at cognition (realize, know, recognize), bend ideas together (falsify, prove, hypothesize), assert possession (own, have) and conjure existence itself (is, are).

— 1 year ago with 74 notes
  1. readingwritingteaching reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  2. awildeeveeappeared reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  3. koenigj reblogged this from ljdigital
  4. unconsciousplots reblogged this from yahighway and added:
    Writing Prompt: Write a drabble (a story of precisely 100 words, no more no less) conscious of each verb. Scribbling on...
  5. -littlewolf reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  6. whisperingwordsofwisdom reblogged this from wakeupnietzsche
  7. ljdigital reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  8. matutyne reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  9. theultimateyareadinggroup reblogged this from yahighway
  10. fearlessjetset reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  11. shiverforme reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  12. yahighway reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  13. teencenterspl reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  14. alei1 reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  15. signetringsandpreppythings reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  16. captain-solo reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  17. lesbionictonic reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  18. rachelmennies reblogged this from teachingliteracy
  19. glassaquarium reblogged this from teachingliteracy
RSS     /      Archive     /      Random
Astronaut by Peter Vidani     /      Tumblr