Many of these tools help students read fluidly and fearlessly, taking on the challenge of unfamiliar words as hurdles to jump or work around, not roadblocks that stop them.
"I love the landscape of language -- its murky depths, its silences and sounds and noises -- spoken language is so different from written language -- the challenge of using words on the page to prompt real language on stage is a difficult and fascinating challenge.
I immediately stopped doing the Sunday New York Times crossword puzzle (in ink) and took up the challenge of the Word Search.
Mrs. Merkel mixed her appraisal of the challenges with words of encouragement, sounding like the European stateswoman her position as the leader of the largest economy in the bloc makes her, and not just the German chancellor.
As a Pulitzer prize winning poet, former Oxford professor of poetry and current New Yorker poetry editor, Muldoon is no stranger to the challenges of making words stand alone on the page.
Rhyme is a principle of change, challenging the autonomy of words and their stability in contexts high or low.
In the light of Pope Francis's encyclical, the challenge of turning his words into transformative action is apparent.
In consideration of the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival's current staging of "Antony and Cleopatra" here, it is useful to mull the comment by Adrian Noble about "the challenge of bringing his words to life".
The incoming president now faces the much tougher challenge of turning damning words into useful actions.
But this approach, as valuable as it is, misses the revolutionary challenge of Jeremiah's words.
