Email your shout-outs to live.lessons@bbc.co.uk, external with 500 Words as the subject to let us know your class is watching You can prepare for this lesson by ...

There’s got to be something in the air. In recent weeks, I’ve gotten not one but two e-mails from readers about the word “got” and its cousin “gotten.” “I will never forget several teachers telling me ...

In this lesson, students will explore how Abraham Lincoln used the power of words in speeches, letters and other documents. In the Introductory Activity, students will watch a segment from the PBS ...

The Thousand Words Project was an exciting lesson in my classroom; students were engaged and were able to see a new way of approaching writing. Students who are visual learners got a chance to ...

Subscribe to the Facts & Arguments podcast on iTunes. Click here to download and listen to the podcast later (right-click and choose "save target as"). On paper, it was a complete mismatch: the young, ...

On paper, it was a complete mismatch: the young, competitive university graduate with a journalism career in the big city against the retired nurse who spent her days puttering around her country ...