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Teachable Moments

One of my goals as a young adult novelist is to subtly educate my readers.  In Between Shadow’s Eyes, the protagonist, Sarah, is constantly remembering or using vocabulary words, sometimes grumbling about her teacher.  I, myself, had an English teacher in seventh grade that opened the dictionary on the first day of class, and starting with the letter “a,” proceeded to quiz us on the words in the order they appeared.  We had to learn both spelling and all the definitions in groups of twenty.  I complained a lot about those tests that year, but I will forever be grateful to Mrs. Krumenacher for the depth of my vocabulary.

Filed Under: Editing, Reading, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: teaching, vocabulary, words

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