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The Great Thinking Machine Show.
New Jersey educators create a hot new language skills game that has 95 percent of their students scoring in the 93rd percentile for reading,
Exoskeleton. Metalinguistic. Photosynthesis. These are million-dollar words that would make Regis Philbin's TV show contestants balk. But to students at Lucy N. Holman Elementary in Jackson, New Jersey, these difficult words are like money in the bank.
These students owe their verbal virtuosity to "The Great Thinking Machine Show," an innovative approach to language arts learning invented by NEA member Judi McLoughlin, a speech pathologist at Holman Elementary.
The game requires students to use skills ranging…
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