And, yes, I adore dictation.

Why? Mainly because dictations are old-fashioned, boring, teacher-centered, and generally disliked.

Well, that’s the reputation of traditional dictation, which makes them the perfect forum for showing teachers HOW we can shake things up and apply teaching tricks to make an activity more interesting and more effective.

For the second half of the alphabet, I’ve given some more fascinating words, AND I’ve added runners-up. But, for the most part, what I’ve done with runners-up is NOT given you their meanings. No, instead I’ve tried to supply a TANTALIZING HINT. The TH (Tantalizing Hint) is meant to make people want to know what the word means, and to make the effort to learn it. Most of these words will be unfamiliar to teachers and students alike. Tantalizing, huh?