Linguistic Intelligence

Howard Gardner’s

Multiple Intelligences

Definition:Linguistic Intelligence (Word Smart) is the capacity to use language, your native language, and perhaps other languages, to express what's on your mind and to understand other people. Poets really specialize in linguistic intelligence, but any kind of writer, orator, speaker, lawyer, or a person for whom language is an important stock in trade, highlights linguistic intelligence.

CAREERS!!!!ArchivistAttorneyAuthorCall center operatorComedianCopywriterCuratorEditorEnglish teacherHistorianInterpreterJournalist

More CAREERS!!!Legal assistantLibrarianManagerNovelistOn-line copy editorOratorPhilosopherPlaywrightPoetPoliticianProofreaderPsychotherapistPublic SpeakerPublic Relations Person

Even more !?!!Radio/TV announcerReporterSales PersonSecretarySocial ScientistSpeech PathologistStorytellerSupervisorTalk-show hostTeacherTechnical writerTour Guide/TravelTranslatorTypistWriter

Classroom activities for linguisticites

ReadingWritingTalkingStorytellingKeeping a journalWord gamesJumblesPlayPretend Play

Mailboxes between classroomsPuzzlesPhonetic sounds writingStories with props or puppetsSign languageFairy talesAlphabet boardsListening centers

Agatha Christie, 1891--1976

Judy Blume, 1938--

Demosthenes, 384—322 BC,

the Alchemist God

Dr. Seuss (Theodore Geisel),1904--1991

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809--1849

Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 1835--1910

Shel Silverstein, 1930--1999

Melinda MaeShel Silverstein

Have you heard of tiny Melinda Mae,Who ate a monstrous whale?She thought she could,She said she would,So she started in right at the tail.

And everyone said,"You're much too small,"But that didn't bother Melinda at all,She took little bites and she chewed very slow,Just like a little girl should...

...and eighty-nine years later she ate that whaleBecause she said she would!!!

Rudyard Kipling, 1865--1936

Roald Dahl, 1916-1990

Alexander Pope, 1688—1744

J.K. Rowling, 1965-

John Irving, 1942--

William Shakespeare, 1564--1616

John Steinbeck, 1902—1968

Robert Frost, 1874—1963

Eric Carle, 1929--

Maurice Sendak, 1928--

The End (of Linguistics)