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 [...]
Teaching Sentences as Grammar VS. Teaching Sentences as Writing Do you teach “grammar” when you teach children about sentences… or do you teach “writing” when you teach children about sentences? Let’s take a quiz. Read this sentence: Do you still eat pizza every day? Which of these four kinds of sentences is this? • Declarative Sentence – [...]
Grammar, Vocabulary, Worksheets… NOT! Grammar, phonics… whatever my students need is what I want to teach. I can get as excited about the sound of a single letter as I can about an entire essay. Discovering the full beauty and interconnectedness of a particular subject is always fascinating to me. This beauty exists in even [...]