6 Vocabulary Building Writing Activities with Mrs. Wordsmith’s Storyteller’s Illustrated Dictionary

Disclosure: I partnered with Mrs. Wordsmith to bring you this information.   Grow a child’s vocabulary and writing skills with Mrs. Wordsmith’s Storyteller’s Illustrated Dictionary. This deluxe, illustrated storytelling dictionary gets kids jazzed about words with over 1,000 words illustrated in entertaining cartoons. And those illustrations? They are from Craig Kellman, the Hollywood artist behind […]

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  • May 21, 2019

Want to Write for Nomadic Matt? Here’s How!

Updated: 04/22/19 | April 22, 2019 Earlier this year, I announced I was opening this website up to guest posters. For years, I turned away unsolicited guest posts, but, this year, I decided it was time to change that policy as I want to add more voices, opinions, stories, and tips to this site. I […]

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  • May 19, 2019

3 Types of Taglines & How to Write Them

Recently, an art-collecting friend told me of a purchase she made on vacation. She was having an unforgettable visit to Amsterdam, filled with luscious ethnic foods, eye-popping architecture, hours meandering around the best art museums… you get the idea! On her second-to-last day, she realized she hadn’t found that perfect piece to remember the trip […]

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  • May 17, 2019

Types of Rhymes in Poetry

Types of rhymes in poetry. We’re all familiar with rhyming poems. After all, these are the first poems most of us encounter as children, from the delightful stories of Dr. Seuss to the hilarious poetry of Shel Silverstein. People often think rhyming poems are rigid, conforming to strict meter and perfect rhymes at the end […]

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  • May 16, 2019

Top 10 end-of-the-world novels

Fresh from writing his own first sci-fi thriller, physicist and broadcaster Jim Al-Khalili chooses favourite books that tackle the Earth in peril Having written a number of popular science books, I decided three years ago to try my hand at fiction. How hard could it be, I reasoned arrogantly. Well, harder than I thought. But […]

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  • May 14, 2019
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