Well, maybe I shouldn't admit this, but until I looked up onomatopeia
(just a moment ago), I didn't know what the darn word meant and I'm
42 and graduated high school and always scored very high on
intelligence tests. I guess its one of those words that you don't use in
the "real" word unless you are on Jeopardy or Millionaire.
Debbie Brown
On 9 Feb 2001, at 9:58, Liz Kirby wrote:
> > 'It uses very hard words and is what I would call noisy writing'
> What mark did you give that pupil? He or she deserves a fewbonus
> points for that.
>
> Kari
>
> a question that has been worrying me - she got a D - 20/35 (this is
> external exam board marking, and I cant be as whimsical as I can with
> my own students - the fact is that a student who doesn't know words
> like 'onomatopoeia' and is afraid of long words, doesn't score very
> high in the academic system. I gave her all the credit I could for
> response to the poem)
>
> I only wish there was some way to feed back to her the appreciation
> from this list, and to let her know she is a real reader!
>
> Liz
> >
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