Jasmine Shannon
@JasmineFS208
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Evidence informed reading instruction for every student in the Northern Territory.
Northern Territory, Australia
Joined March 2020
What a brilliant episode! Morphology totally rocks!!! Sue Hegland and Liisa explain the English orthography brilliantly here. Listen today. https://t.co/EcLdBqwm0O
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Podcast Episode · For The Love Of Literacy · 18/10/2025 · 1h 9m
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The online & fully flexible @latrobe #SOLARLab Secondary Teachers' language and literacy short course starts in Nov and registration is still possible: https://t.co/IcZIs6Km1z Delivered by @tserry2504 and yours truly 📚✍️📈
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Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.
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The final @latrobe #SOLARLab short course for 2025 will run in November and it's for secondary teachers. Presented by yours truly and @tserry2504. Registration details below, and topics covered: https://t.co/IcZIs6Km1z
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Even though English is a Germanic language, it has borrowed so many words that now only 26% of its vocabulary is actually Germanic. However, if you look at just the top 100 most frequently used words of English, nearly every one of them is of Germanic origin. The core of English
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Australian teachers- which handwriting font are you using?
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What is the best behaviour management book you’ve ever read? Looking to do book studies with staff. Thank you 🙏🏽
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For the umpteenth time and for the umpteenth reason, handwriting is better than typing. https://t.co/L7HXTmYUIM
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🆓 GIVE AWAY! 🆓 To be in with a chance of receiving a FREE copy of Codified Leadership, just like and retweet this post. Perhaps you’re attending @Headteacherchat FREE Ready to Lead online event…or perhaps you’re heading to @researchED1 National in London in September? Grab
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We’re getting excited for next month! 🧠📚 🗓️Mark your calendars and join us. 🔗 https://t.co/YWwyZRLwXC
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Engagement norms for vocabulary instruction are key! They cover all aspects of written and oral language, boosting formative assessment, attention, and engagement. Learn more with Explicit Direct Instruction by John Hollingsworth and Silvia Ybarra.
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English borrowed almost 150 words from Old Norse, the language of the Vikings—including the pronoun “they”! https://t.co/dDt00MoCNB
#linguistics #language #history #etymology
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Without the Vikings, English would be missing some awesome words like berserk, muck, skull, knife, and cake! Here's our list of Old Norse words in English.
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Are you team Kiki or Team Buba? Isn’t language awesome! 🙌🏽 https://t.co/vB2YIxeooP
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23.6K likes, 274 comments. “Replying to @dante.marometa it makes you wonder just how many words may be secretly sound-symbolic…”
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What is YOUR favorite word fact or etymology? For example, we think it's kind of cute that 'porcupine' literally means "spiny pig."
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Highly recommend! 🙌🏽🙌🏽
If you want more of the latest news and research in language and linguistics, sign up for my free weekly digest: https://t.co/xbPdDOrg4R
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Awwww my daughter’s name is Primrose!
The name PRIMROSE comes from the Latin ‘prima rosa’, literally meaning ‘first rose’—a reference to the fact that the flower is among the first to bloom in spring.
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👩🍼Why do so many words for mother begin with M? 🍌Why do kids call bananas "nanas" and computers "puters?" The fascinating answers to both these questions are in my NEW VIDEO: https://t.co/OMydENvmPR Please share with anyone you know who has/was a baby.
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Etymological Fun fact: Until the late 16th century, giraffes were known as "camelopards" (literally "camel leopards"). "Giraffe" was an evolution of the Arabic zarafa, which itself was from an unknown African language.
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Wow! Wow! Wow! What a great day at the inaugural the inaugural Sharing Best Practice event, Thank you @PamelaSnow2 @lifelonglit @jettybe3 @DrLSHammond Stephen Dinham & Kerry Williams for coming! Thanks to @JasmineFS208 and the @SharingBestPrac team for making it happen 😍
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