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Why Grammar Instruction Does Not Improve Student Writing July 26, 2011

What Does the Research on Teaching Writing Show? Do you want to improve your students’ writing? Well, don’t teach grammar! I’m serious. Teaching grammar doesn’t improve student writing. I will never forget the year when I devoted an unreasonable amount of time to teaching grammar in the hopes that students would stop making all those [...]

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Ultimate Daily Oral Language Guide: Tips, Trick, Pros & Cons (D.O.L & D.L.R) January 6, 2010

I’m going to give a rundown of pros and cons as well as a list of ideas of how to get the most out of your Daily Oral Language. (It’s also referred to as DOL, D.O.L., Daily Language Review, DLR, and D.L.R.) Daily Oral Language was so hot for so long… but it has fallen [...]

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