Sign up for the daily CJR newsletter. When we talked about “bizarro” words last week, we promised to talk this week about the difference between “colloquial ...

Far too many students find schoolwork to be boring. There are multiple reasons, but a main one is that academic instruction is typically framed in "plain-vanilla," academic language and style. In the ...

Internet English reflects the way language is evolving with changing patterns of communication. Acronyms such as ...

This 23-page packet contains everything you need to teach the differences between formal academic language and informal language to your elementary students. The first thing students need to be able ...

I've always had a lot of difficulty with my students using slang and text or informal language in their ELA work. I devised this handy worksheet to help students understand the difference and when it ...