{"id":1087,"date":"2013-08-16T20:15:33","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T03:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/?page_id=1087"},"modified":"2013-10-13T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-13T22:34:00","slug":"language-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/links-for-students\/language-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/eng-lang-in-10.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1284\" alt=\"eng lang in 10\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/eng-lang-in-10-300x166.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/eng-lang-in-10-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/eng-lang-in-10.png 301w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.open.edu\/openlearn\/history-the-arts\/culture\/english-language\/the-history-english-ten-minutes\" target=\"_blank\">History of the English in 10 Minutes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Where did the phrase \u2018a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing\u2019 come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts?&#8230;. Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English grew from a small tongue into a major global language before reflecting on the future of English in the 21st century.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheppardsoftware.com\/grammar\/grammar_tutorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Language<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sheppardsoftware.com\/grammar\/grammar_tutorial.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Grammar Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/visual-thesaurus.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1342\" alt=\"visual thesaurus\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/files\/2013\/10\/visual-thesaurus.png\" width=\"202\" height=\"38\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.visualthesaurus.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Thesaurus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Visual Thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates<br \/>\nword maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kidzone.ws\/cursive\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cursive Practice<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can download the same cursive pages we have been using in the classroom. Pick the letter(s) that you need more practice with, print and you can happily practice at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of the English in 10 Minutes &#8220;Where did the phrase \u2018a wolf in sheep\u2019s clothing\u2019 come from? And when did scientists finally get round to naming sexual body parts?&#8230;. Bursting with fascinating facts, the series looks at how English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/links-for-students\/language-studies\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"parent":66,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1087","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1087"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1507,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1087\/revisions\/1507"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.vsb.bc.ca\/mggriffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}