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How to Write a Character Sketch (For Beginners)

By: Untangling Life's Web March 23, 2020March 24, 2020

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A character sketch is description of a person’s qualities or traits. It tells you what makes a person who he/she/it is. Here’s a video describing how to find character traits. It will also talk about character development. The image below sums up what the video is trying to tell you about character traits. Here’s an…

Heidi- Story of the Week

By: Untangling Life's Web February 23, 2020February 23, 2020

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Snippet of Wisdom #5

By: Untangling Life's Web October 10, 2019

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Society has told us a series of mistruths… That pleasure is preferable to the terrifying yet majestic fact that all possibility requires hard work, regular reinvention and a dedication as deep as the sea to leaving our harbours of safety, daily. From “The 5 AM Club” by Robin Sharma. Good day to you!

Snippet of Wisdom #4

By: Untangling Life's Web October 8, 2019October 5, 2019

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The smallest of implementations is always worth more than the grandest of intentions. From “The 5 AM Club” by Robin Sharma. I guess we are back to the basics with this one. “Actions do speak louder than words” and even intentions. Have a great day!

Snippet of Wisdom #3

By: Untangling Life's Web October 7, 2019October 5, 2019

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The truth is that every challenging event you’ve experienced, each toxic person that you’ve encountered and all the trials you’ve endured have been perfect preparation to make you into the person that you now are. You needed these lessons to activate the treasures, talents and powers that are now awakening within you. Nothing was an…

The North Wind and the Sun

By: Untangling Life's Web October 6, 2019October 6, 2019

Books, Mentor Texts, Reading Workshop# Chooseing the just-right book, # Education, # Short Stories, # Teachers, #English as Second Language, #ESL, #fable, #moral, #reading, Books10 Comments

A fable is a short story that teaches a lesson or has a moral. The main characters in fables may be animals, legendary creatures and people. Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller who wrote many fables. His fables are collectively known as “Aesop’s Fables”. Here is one of his fables for you. It’s called…

Snippet of Wisdom #1

By: Untangling Life's Web October 5, 2019October 5, 2019

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Hi everyone! I wanted to share something amazing I have started to read. I haven’t even finished the second chapter and I am already blown away by the reservoir of wisdom this book contains. In case you’re wondering, I am talking about “The 5 AM Club” by Robin Sharma. I thought since it’s so useful…

A Book Review By a 5th Grader!

By: Untangling Life's Web September 27, 2019September 27, 2019

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I cannot begin to tell you how excited I am feeling to be sharing this- to see my students following in my footsteps and taking forward what was started many months back. A couple of weeks ago, as India was celebrating its Independence Day, I had urged some of my students to free themselves of…

20 Children’s Book That Redefine Gender Roles

Children are exposed to gender roles sometimes in very obvious ways, but sometimes very subtly. One of the subtle ways was the fairytales and story books we read while growing up where the girl was always the damsel in distress in need of being saved by a handsome and strong boy. Ugh! There were many…

How to Choose the Just- Right Book

By: Untangling Life's Web November 20, 2018July 4, 2019

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To enjoy reading, we must learn how to choose the right book.

Word of the Day- November 20, 2018

By: Untangling Life's Web November 20, 2018November 24, 2018

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excerpt (noun) short part taken from a book, movie, speech etc. Sentence– The excerpt from the book “Robinson Crusoe” which is given in our textbook Marigold, does not clarify who the mysterious footprint belonged to, so I ended up reading the whole book. Questions: Have you found out any such excerpts in your books? What…

Some Food for Thought

By: Untangling Life's Web November 19, 2018July 4, 2019

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I was reminded of a quote from the movie “Rough book”- “Padhaane se sabse zyada fayda padhaane wale ko hota hai.” So which level are you on? Think of some ways you can teach others what you have learnt yourself. Can simply teach everything to ourselves again or our parents? Group studies can also help…