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Levi’s Book of Barnyard Animals / Arabic

Levi’s Book of Barnyard Animals

Levi’s Book of Barnyard Animals presents 21 different animals of the barnyard — bull, cat, chicken, cow, dog, donkey, duck, fox, goat, goose, horse, mouse, owl, pig, rabbit, rat, rooster, sheep, skunk, squirrel, and turkey.

The following list of words are Arabic (A’rabi), in page order with the book.

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Battah

Dajaajah

Deek

Habasha

Ouwazza

Kalb

Cat

Jadee

Kharoof

Tor

Baqarah

Hesan

Hemar

Khanzeer

Sinjeb

Jardon

Taa’lab

A-dhirban al amrekki

Boomé

Arnab

Fa’r

Arizona Adds Educational Options for Students on Tribal Lands

governordougducey_0On April 7th Governor Doug Ducey signed a bill to officially expand Arizona’s innovate Empowerment Scholarship Account (ESA) program, offering unprecedented educational options to all students living on tribal lands. Arizona has a total of 22 reservations and is home to the second largest Native American student population in the United States. According to the Arizona Department of Education, Native American students have the state’s lowest graduation rate, at just 61%, making Native American children less likely to graduate than any other ethnicity or group including students with special needs. Most of the 55,000 Native American students attend school on or near their reservation.

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Less Testing May Help Every Child Achieve

After weeks of negotiations, U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Patty Murray (D-WA) have released draft legislation designed to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), better known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).

The bipartisan agreement, known as the “Every Child Achieves Act of 2015,” promises to fix problems with the NCLB Act while keeping intact the parts of the law that are working, and provides the basis for lawmakers to move forward on ESEA revision as early as next week.

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Harnessing the Power of a Teacher’s Pen

Kelly Boswell argues that teachers should share their creative writing processes to benefit their students

I recently asked a group of teachers to reflect on their own experiences as student writers. I asked them to cast their minds back to the time when they were students and recall the kinds of feedback they received about their writing.

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Emojis and the Language of the Internet

ThinkstockPhotos-523396587People have been complaining about language being ruined by younger generations for thousands of years. Linguist John McWhorter noted that a Roman scholar in 63 AD complained about Latin students writing in an “artificial language” when they were writing in a language that would later become French. While teen text language, fraught with acronyms and emoticons, may be frowned upon by some members of an older generation, a 2010 study at Coventry University in the U.K. showed a positive association between heavy use of internet acronyms and school literacy. The growing and changing language of the internet has introduced phrases like “LOL” to the Oxford English Dictionary and a “lexicon” of over 700 image-based emoji characters.

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French to Stop Fight Against Foreign Words

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Swedish Dictionary Officially Includes Gender-Neutral Pronoun

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April 2015

April 2015 Cover

Cutting to the Common Core
Constructive Conversations
Constance Dziombak finds that quality academic conversations help ELLs to clarify and express their arguments

Audio Dissection
Seventeen-year-old Akshay Swaminathan shares his technique to improve world-language comprehension

Harnessing the Power of a Teacher’s Pen
Kelly Boswell argues that teachers should share their creative writing processes to benefit their students

Using Hands-On Manipulatives
Jennifer Nash recommends the tactile approach to motivating students to read and write

Closing English Language Learner Gaps Early
Benjamin Heuston and Haya Shamir of the Waterford Institute examine how adaptive learning software makes the curriculum effective for English language learners worldwide

‘The Single Greatest Educational Effort in Human History’
Judy Heflin charts the success of Mao’s Chinese literacy program

Mandarin More Than Ever
There’s never been a better time to study in China

Last Writes Richard Lederer celebrates Dr. Johnson’s path-breaking dictionary

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Lee Kuan Yew’s Language Legacy

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