[Ohiogift] Fwd: curriculum ideas for vocabulary development

[Margaret DeLacy]

>Subject: [Ohiogift] Curriculum ideas for vocabulary development
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> Holiday Greeting to Gifted Land! The lead administrator/school psychologist for a behavioral school has requested curriculum 
>ideas geared toward vocabulary development, word play, etc., especially for grades 6-12.
>Students publish a newspaper, and recently, one of the students submitted an article pieced together 
>using various Metallica lyrics. He said it was an awesome piece and wanted to be able to further 
>develop this type of student work.  I recommended materials by Michael Clay Thompson/Royal 
>Fireworks Press.  Does anyone have other suggestions?  Thanks for your help!LeAnn Moser
>LMoser at nwoesc.org


I'm not sure this is what you are looking for, but Corbett Harrison has posted several ideas on our Oregon list (I think he's from Nevada)

http://www.corbettharrison.com/

In particular see the pages here:

http://www.corbettharrison.com/free_lessons/Boy-Who-Loved-Words.htm

Margaret