Language Fun

As I was sifting through some language and literacy booklets last night that my practicum supervisor gave me, I came across these adorable poems

The Craziest Language

We'll begin with a box and the plural is boxes.

But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.

Then one fowl is a goose, but two are called geese

Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.

You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,

Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.

If the plural of man is always men,

Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?

If I spoke of my foot and show you my feet,

And if I give you a boot, would a pair be called beet?

If one is a tooth and a whole set are teeth,

Why shouldn't the plural of booth be called beeth?

Then one may be that, and three would be those,

Yet a hat in the plural would never be hose.
And the plural of cat is cats, not cose.

We speak of brother and also of brethren,

But though we say mother, we never say methren.

Then the masculine pronouns are he, his, and him,

But imagine the feminine, she, shis, and shim.

So English I fancy you will agree,

Is the craziest language you ever did see.

Author Unknown

Plane English

Eye halve a spelling chequer

It came with my pea sea

It plainly marques four my revue

Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word

And weight four it two say

Weather eye am wrong oar write

It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid

It nose bee fore two long

And eye can put the error rite

Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it

I am shore your pleased two no

Its letter perfect awl the weigh

My chequer tolled me sew.

Author Unknown



These should help you to ease into Monday. :)

Braidy

So my new favorite thing this week is a little wonder named Braidy. I found out about him when I started my new job (one down on the 2011 list) and his whole purpose in life is to help students improve their oral language abilities. Braidy is so great because he is a puppet for the little ones but the strategies that Braidy incorporates can be implemented with older kids. Here he is:

Essentially, Braidy is a type of Story Grammar Marker (Braidy look-alikes can be created very easily - just need to make a mad dash to Michaels...I am all about the knock-offs!) Braidy's head represents the Character. The star represents the Setting. The shoe was chosen to initiate the "kick-off" event. The heart is there to represent the internal response or how the character feels. The hand is the Plan of Action- what will the character do? The beads are Attempts or Actions which represent how the "plan" is to be carried out. The bow is the Direct Consequence of the action and the little heart at the end is the Resolution.

You can use Braidy's icons when asking older students to write their own stories. Here is the link if you want to take a look at him: http://buyersguide.asha.org/productshowcase.php?ps_id=1294

I just love this guy. I think he will come in handy this semester with the kiddos that I will have.... :) I will copy him and keep him in my folder of goodies as well for future endeavors.

That's all.

M