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To Delve into Things, Discern, Distinguish, & Demonstrate Dexterity with All Kinds of Vowel Sounds

Competency Puzzle “Listen & Speak with Understanding” Pieces E-01.01 to E-01.09: Simple, Complex, & All Vowel Sounds & Spellings in Nam...

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S-s-s-t-ar-r-r-t Instruction in Oral Language Skills (Listening & Speaking) with Phonemically Sound Awareness & Articulation

Competency Puzzle “Listen & Speak with Understanding” Pieces E-00.02 to E-00.03: Cultivate Sound Awareness with the Alphabet, Greetings, Names,...

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Make Pauses for Clauses

Competency Puzzle “Apply Grammar” Pieces D-15.01 to 15.05: Join Co-ordinate & Subordinate (Independent & Dependent) Clauses in Compound ...

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Keep a Masked Distance But Don’t Stop Laughing, Listening, Learning, & Linking

Competency Puzzle “Listen & Speak with Understanding” E-00.01a & b: Get & Assert Meaning with Body Language Remember when we used to tr...

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Active or Passive, Perfect Usage of Verb Tenses, Aspects, Voices, & Moods

Competency Puzzle “Apply Grammar” Pieces D-13.01 to D-14.04: (Present, Past, Future, & Modal) Perfect Verb Tenses & Aspects + the Passive V...

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Part with Verbal Tension by Handling Other Parts of Speech: Possessives, Pronouns, Adjectives & Adverbs, & “Extra Ones”

Competency Puzzle “Apply Grammar” Pieces D-12.01 to D-12.14: Adverbs & Prepositional Phrases; (Adjective & Pronoun) Possessives; Kinds of P...

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Verb Tenses Making You Tense? How to ReVerberate with Verbiage on Other Aspects of Verbs & Verbals

[CLICK ON ANY BLUE UNDERLINED link to see all the grammar tools. Just scroll down to what you want.] So far, Verb Tenses (Past, Present, Future) &...

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How to Put Together the Parts & Pieces That Make Language Work: Covering Content in Context (Holiday Edition)

Remember when we used to celebrate annual occasions in traditional ways—notably by getting together (physically) to commemorate, honor, relax, un...

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How to Put Together the Parts & Pieces That Make Language Work: Grammar Competencies Part 4

Competency Puzzle “Apply Grammar” Pieces D-08 through D-09: Use the Simple Past; Relate to the Past Time Frame At the Present time, it still feels...

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How to Put Together the Parts & Pieces That Make Language Work: Grammar Competencies Part 3

Why and how we can/could, will/would, may/might/must, should/shall go out to teaching/learning grammar in an unprecedented, weird new world... Comp...

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7 Tips for ESL Classroom Management in a COVID World

Guest Blog As COVID-19 continues to threaten communities across the country, many English language educators have been forced to transition to virt...

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Coping in Complex and Uncertain Times

With the breadth and severity of issues impacting this country, other nations, and our planet today, it’s easy to get overwhelmed. From global pand...

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