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Previous Thread Next Thread Print Thread Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Re: lady elementary school teachers #111221 08/31/03 02:03 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 V vbq journeyman vbq journeyman V Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 I don't think "we" have any lady elementary school teachers on this board Have we no ladies who fit this definition? elementary school n. A school for the first four to eight years of a child's formal education, often including kindergarten. I had assumed Wordwind is a "lady elementary school teacher". She certainly is a "lady" and she just posted the "African elephant" thread to generate examples for her classroom. Doesn't sound to me like Wordwind is teaching the correct spelling of animal names to high school students. Anyway, I asked a Grade 5 teacher [who also happens to be a lady] yesterday if she is aware that boys have poorer literacy skills than girls. She said that is well known. I asked her "Why?". She responded immediately saying she thinks it's because boys aren't interested in the stories their female teachers choose for them. She said they are not interested in the typical fictional fare offered in classrooms. They like to read about real-life things like spiders and lions and skeletons and such. She has two boys herself and knows what they are really interested in at that age. I was surprised at her response because she was saying exactly what some of the 'experts' quoted in the Toronto Star article were saying, only she was saying it a lot more clearly. [And she hadn't read the Toronto Star article.] BTW the story appeared in yesterday's Toronto Star (Aug. 30th) at www.TorontoStar.com. Here is the url. Sorry, I've forgotten how to make it active. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1062195014474&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154 You can also find it by entering "Why boys avoid school reading" in Google. P.S. "We" was not intended as 'the royal we'. I was simply referring to visitors to this forum. I make no claim, nor do I harbor any aspiration, to that high station. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lady elementary school teachers #111222 08/31/03 02:09 PM Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Buffalo Shrdlu Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 7,210 Vermont WW was until recently an elementary music teacher. she's now teaching HS english. so I think she still qualifies! formerly known as etaoin... Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lady elementary school teachers #111223 08/31/03 03:07 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York Some of Wordwind's high school students are, em, challenged. She has to go with the basics. Hey, WW, your ears burning? Oh, and vbq, you make a link active by placing [ url] and [ /url] (omit space) at either end of the URL. Same as you do when you color posts blue. See FAQs for more info. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lady elementary school teachers #111224 08/31/03 07:39 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui Oh, and vbq, you make a link active by placing [ url] and [ /url] (omit space) at either end of the URL. Same as you do when you color posts blue. See FAQs for more info. Or go to http://maxqnz.com/Hints.html, maybe. noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: lady elementary school teachers #111225 08/31/03 09:14 PM Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 V vbq journeyman vbq journeyman V Joined: Aug 2003 Posts: 95 you make a link active by placing [ url] and [ /url] Thanks. I'll go back and activ-ate it now. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter old-timer refresher #111226 08/31/03 10:37 PM Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel AnnaStrophic Carpal Tunnel Joined: Mar 2000 Posts: 6,511 lower upstate New York vbq, your next lesson will be on how to use snurl or makeashorterlink to keep the page from going wide. Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re: old-timer refresher #111227 08/31/03 10:43 PM Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel sjmaxq Carpal Tunnel Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 3,230 Te Ika a Maui >vbq, your next lesson will be on how to use snurl or makeashorterlink to keep the page from going wide. Well, since my ego is now totally out of control, http://www.maxqnz.com/Hints.html mentions this too. noho ora mai http://maxqnzs.com/References.html Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Re-refresher-er #111228 09/02/03 02:36 PM Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago musick Carpal Tunnel musick Carpal Tunnel Joined: Dec 2000 Posts: 2,661 Chicago ...how to use snurl or makeashorterlink... Talk about 'technology for the sake of an advertising based economy'..! Copy Link to Clipboard Share Post on Facebook Share Post on Twitter Page 3 of 3 1 2 3 Moderated by  Jackie  Hop To General Topics ------  Information and announcements  Q&A about words  Wordplay and fun  Words and languages in schools  Miscellany  Weekly Themes  Looking for (writers, speakers,... (Old) Weekly themes. 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