Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Commonly confused words and mnemonic devices

Hi Folks,

Today we went over the some of the online flashcards for the commonly confused words.  See below for the links!  Don't forget that I'll be checking your flashcards and you will have a quiz on Monday.  For some of the harder words, we might need to come up with mnemonic devices. We have a couple awesome ones:  RAVEN, and CHILE, and ARID, but we could use some more!

Can you think of mnemonic devices for the following groups of words?

council, counsel, consul
allusion, illusion
emigrate, immigrate
all right, alright
all ready, already
further, farther
complement, compliment
accede, exceed

If you come up with a brilliant one, email me at cmsteacherstowell@gmail.com with it by Monday, and if it is awesome, I'll break you off some bonus points.  Remember, a good mnemonic device is short, meaningful, and above all, is memorable.  The point for these devices is that they show the difference in meaning and spelling of these homonyms, so folks will know when to use them properly.

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