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Nine Everyday Sayings That Are a Total Home Run (Thanks to Baseball)

Baseball isn’t just America’s pastime — it’s also a linguistic MVP. Over the past 150 years, the sport has enriched our everyday conversations with phrases that most people use without…
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Prison Reading

So the latest financial outlaw and crypto-currency-exchange fraudster, Sam Bankman-Fried, was quoted in an interview prior to his downfall and arrest as proclaiming “I would never read a book.” Who…

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Words and Actions

Planet Word was intended to be place where people would have fun with language, a joyful place where people would come together to use their words, that shined a spotlight…

Children reading books on the Story Table in Planet Word's magic Library
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What Is Reading For?

Recently the New York Times devoted an entire Sunday Opinion section to the question “What Is School For?” What a crazy question, I thought! Being a former teacher, the mother…