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As Far As Words Go: Activities for Understanding Ambiguous Language and Humor, Revised Edition,Used
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Understanding ambiguous words, phrases, and sentences is an important part of reading well, communicating skillfully, and enjoying humor based on word play. With this sevenunit activity bookfilled with creative, readytouse activities based on jokes and punsstudents will learn how to decipher the language ambiguities they encounter inside and outside the classroom.Ideal for use with students in the upper elementary grades through high school and beyond, As Far As Words Go is what speechlanguage pathologists and education professionals need to improve students' literacy and communication skills, including semantic, metalinguistic, and pragmatic skills help students correctly interpret multiplemeaning words and phrases, such as homographs and homophones, idioms and proverbs, and metaphors and similes teach a wide range of students, especially those who have language or learning disability, or are learning English as a second language make learning fun with dozens of activities and a printable board game work with students in small group or onetoone settings promote development of the skills students need to decode language complexities and humor cues independently when they occur in everyday languageTo help professionals use the activities successfully, this book includes enlightening summaries of relevant research, background information on the language concepts, and specific techniques for presenting the activities and helping students generalize new skills in other settings. SLPs and educators will also get the practical content they need to implement the activities and assess student progress (see below).A natural followup to Cecile Cyrul Spector's Sounds Like Fun, these engaging, effective activities will help students grasp the subtleties and complexities of the English languageso they can become more skillful readers and communicators.With easytouse practical content: Photocopiable forms for assessing a student's understanding of ambiguous language and humor Fullcolor, easytoassemble game mat & both color and iconcoded game cardseasy to print or photocopy Printable template for creating additional game cards Guide to common idioms and proverbs, including the ones used in the activities
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