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Teaching Perfect Verb Tenses
The perfect verb tenses are used to express completed actions that occurred before another point in time or event. Teaching perfect verb tenses can be a little tricky, so it's…
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Progressive verb tenses express a continuous or ongoing action. Essentially, the progressive aspect expresses incomplete or ongoing actions at a specific time (past, present, or future). Just as with all…
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Progressive verb tenses express a continuous or ongoing action. Essentially, the progressive aspect expresses incomplete or ongoing actions at a specific time (past, present, or future). Just as with all…
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Teaching Simple Verb Tenses
Native English speakers typically master the correct use of simple verb tenses at an early age. However, some students, especially English language learners, will still need direct instruction and support…
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While idioms, adages, and proverbs are all non-literal figures of speech and people often use the terms interchangeably. However, there are distinctions between the three that your students should know.…
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While idioms, adages, and proverbs are all non-literal figures of speech and people often use the terms interchangeably. However, there are distinctions between the three that your students should know.…
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Teaching Surface Area with 3D Nets
Teaching students how to find the surface area of 3D shapes can be tricky, especially when they are looking at a 2D diagram. Students are much better at visualizing 3D…
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Beginning in the second grade, most content standards require that students be able to utilize context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases. These skills is also…
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Beginning in the second grade, most content standards require that students be able to utilize context clues to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and phrases. These skills is also…
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