Keep Your Word

<p>To get the complete <b>Idioms for Inclusivity</b> experience this book can be purchased alongside four others as a set <b><i>Idioms for Inclusivity: Fostering Belonging with Language</i> 978-1-032-28635-8</b>.</p><p>Informed by sociolinguistic research yet written accessibly <i> Keep Your Word</i> challenges readers to investigate the act of promising as it relates to both language-use and inclusivity.</p><p>This engaging and delightfully illustrated book invites students to engage with concepts such as: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>the cultural meaning of the idiom keep your word</li> <p> </p> <li>Speech Acts and Felicity Conditions two frameworks that linguists use to research and understand promises</li> <p> </p> <li>why the expectation to keep your word can make someone feel excluded</li> <p> </p> <li>and how understanding the way language works can help learn to be more inclusive</li> </ul><p>Featuring practical inclusivity tips related to promises this enriching curriculum supplement can be used in a Language Arts setting to learn about figurative language; in a Social Studies setting to discuss diversity equity inclusion and belonging; or as an introduction to linguistics for students ages 7-14.</p>