Many long-vowel, one-syllable words ending in a “K” sound end in two vowels before the K, such as beak and soak.In order not to confuse the child, I would skip over teaching these kinds of words until the previous kinds of “K” words are learned. The exception I would make is ...
隅is a corner. Confucius said, “If I show the student one corner of a rectangular room, and he is unable to figure out that the other three corners are similar to it, then he is not worth teaching.” In classical Chinese, this is worded as follows: 举一隅不以三隅反, 则不复也. ...
Regardless of social class, race, or income, roughly a third of all kindergartners require this explicit, systematic approach to learn how to read.Yet the resistance from many educators to change has been palpable.So the National Council on Teacher Quality decided to examine what aspiring ...
Cursive –“School cursive, called in my day Palmer penmanship, had evolved from an elaborate decorative script invented for engraving in copper, a very slow and painstaking form of writing that had nothing to do with speed. Someone, somewhere, decided that it would be nice if children learned...
If you do homeschool for the whole week, you don’t have to work for hours on end. Remember that a public school needs 8 hours a day because they have breaks, lunch, and recess while teaching 20 kids! Sometimes homeschooling may seem like you takes all day, andsomedays homeschooling ...
There are a number of textbooks for teaching the Arabic of different countries, eg Lebanese Arabic, Moroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, etc. I think many if not most of them are published by Georgetown U Press. marie-luciesays May 3, 2012 at 12:09 pm ...
The theme of Asian religions features three intertwined epistemological, historical, and socio-cultural challenges that may hinder an objective and nuanced teaching and learning in the classroom situation (and beyond). The first concerns the resistance of many Asian religious phenomena to a Protestant-...