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Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program

“Double Double Speak Speak”

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Bilateral suborbital hematoma? Call an audible? 404? Have fun with “the twittering or warbling of birds,” or as 14th century French speakers would say, have fun with “jargon.” Groups match specialized jargon with plain speech, decode...
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Newspaper in Education

Lesson 10: Studying Content-Specific Language

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Stanchion, spar, spinnaker. Right wing, sweeper, hip check. Every subject has specialized vocabulary. Here’s a fun way to introduce your learners to this jargon. Provide class groups with newspapers and have them search pre-selected...
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Curated OER

Using Words: Verbal Communication

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
Written and verbal communication is the topic for today. The class goes over various facets of verbal communication, such as plain English, active voice, passive voice, cliché, and jargon. They then use those devices as they discuss...
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Curated OER

Jargon and Development Speak

For Teachers Higher Ed
Jargon is usually composed of long, area-specific vocabulary that is not necessarily easy to understand. A category known as "DevelopmentSpeak" is used in development organizations and is often quite verbose. Help your learners avoid...
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Curated OER

Epic Poetry: Literary Terms for Story Analysis

For Teachers 11th - Higher Ed
What do Star Wars, Indiana Jones, and The Odyssey have in common? Why, they are all epics, of course, and are presented here as examples of the literary term. If you are beginning a study of epics, consider previewing the terms included...
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Curated OER

Language and Social Culture

For Teachers Higher Ed
"Language and culture are so related that you cannot understand one without a knowledge of the other." The 37 slides in this presentation are meant to reinforce the points made in a lecture about language, language vareities, language...
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Curated OER

Pragmatics

For Teachers Higher Ed
Discover the differences in dialect when teaching linguistics. Many examples from Creole, Pidgin, slang, and the UK are used. The slides are black and white and mostly consist of various examples.
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Curated OER

What's the Scoop on Slang?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students examine examples of sports jargon by reading sports articles from a newspaper. They write a news article about a fictional sports event using examples of sports jargon.
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Curated OER

Rollin’ on the River: Identifying Jargon

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Pupils identify jargon in poetry, prose and fiction. For this literature lesson, students will read selections from Mark Twain and identify figurative langauge, focusing on jargon.
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Curated OER

Old English: Pirate Slang

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Pupils review a list of slang used by pirates and then compile a list of slang that they use in their everyday language. They discuss which examples of slang should be included in the dictionary and in which contexts slang is appropriate.
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Curated OER

Juggling the Jargon (An Idiomatic Lesson)

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders examine a list of idioms and pick one to focus on for this instructional activity. They use an illustration program to illustrate their idiom. They guess what other students idioms were based on their drawings.
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Handout
SUNY Empire State College

Empire State College: Writing Style Seminar

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This detailed resource provides a good tutorial on writing style, whether informal or formal. It explains how to get style through word and sentence choice and includes lots of examples. W.9-10.1d & W.9-10.2e Style/tone/conv,...
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Other

Foldoc Computing Dictionary

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents a searchable dictionary of computer terminology that includes pronunciations. Links within the definitions allow you to gain a thorough understanding of the term.
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Other

A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email: Acronyms & Jargon

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
An interesting and fairly detailed list of many of the acronyms that are used in email. Also discusses some unique internet/email "jargon," such as "spam."
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Handout
Grammarly

Grammarly Handbook: Text Level Measurements of Adequate Writing

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This Grammarly Handbook resource provides information about how to check for text-level measurements of adequate writing grammar rules in an essay. This resource will explain the importance of the following: readability, lexical density,...
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Appropriate Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on using appropriate language in formal writing; it discusses pretentious language, jargon, and cliches. It defines each, provides examples, and explains why and how to avoid each. SL.9-10.6 Adapt to task/formal
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Appropriate Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students can learn how to use language appropriately through these notes on pretentious language, nine presentation slides on using jargon, eleven presentation slides on cliches in writing, and a video also about cliches. [2:00]
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Appropriate Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of three PowerPoints and two videos defining pretentious language, jargon, and cliche and explaining how writers can avoid using them. W.11-12.2d Lang/Fig/Voc
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Handout
Online Writing Lab at Purdue University

Purdue University Owl: Using Appropriate Language

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Knowing the right language for your particular audience is a necessary skill for all writers. No one wants to offend their audience or appear as though they don't know their content. Learn these rules of thumb to become more familiar...
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Clarity: Avoiding Assumptions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses avoiding assumptions about the reader. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.4
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Jargon

For Students 9th - 10th
This lessons introduces jargon and discusses its use.