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Continue reading →: How To Teach Kids Sentence StructureHere’s the exercise I use to teach my students about sentences. When I teach my students about sentence structure, I like to write down three different sentences to test their understanding. I write one that’s complete, one that’s missing a subject and one that’s missing a predicate. For example: After…
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Continue reading →: How To Teach Kids The Right Way To Use CommasMany young students were taught the wrong way. I remember in elementary school, one of my language arts’ teachers told me to put commas in my paragraph when I needed to take a breath. I thought this was the correct way to use commas for years. It wasn’t until high…
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Continue reading →: Simple Way To Explain Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives To KidsHere’s an easy exercise to teach grammar. You hand your child a worksheet and ask her if she recognizes any words from the title. She shakes her head. Now, you proceed to explain what nouns, verbs, and adjectives are to her. The only problem is that you’re not sure how.…
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Continue reading →: Teaching Kids About Subjects and PredicatesI taught subjects, predicates and the different types of sentences. I own a tutoring centre and today I taught a grade 4 student about subjects, predicates and the different types of sentences. Subjects and Predicates I handed her a subjects and predicates worksheet and asked her to read the quick…
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Continue reading →: How to Help Your Child Write Their First ParagraphTeach your child how to connect sentences on the same topic. You’ve taught your child how to write a sentence. You’ve even taught them how to make their sentences longer. Now, you want to teach them how to write their first paragraph. How to Write a Paragraph Paragraphs are a…
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Continue reading →: Daily 10-Minute Grammar Routine For Busy ParentsHere’s a daily grammar routine you can do even if you’re short on time. Look, I get it, you’re strapped for time. It’s difficult to help your kid practice grammar when you barely have time to make dinner. But what if I told you there was a quick, easy grammar…
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Continue reading →: 3 Ways To Get Kids Off Devices To Learn GrammarFun ways to get your kids off their screens to learn grammar and spelling. You’ve probably been noticing that kids are glued to their screens. You want them to do something productive, such as learn how to spell better or practice grammar rules, but they refuse. You don’t know what…
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Continue reading →: 3 Common Writing Mistakes Kids Make And How To Correct ThemHere’s how to teach your kids correct writing. Many kids learn speech by hearing their peers and by consuming media. This isn’t a bad thing, but sometimes what they adopt as normal speech is incorrect. For example, I had a student who was constantly on social media and talked like…
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Continue reading →: How to Teach Kids How to Write SentencesTry these formulas. Many young students have trouble remembering or understanding sentence structure. I had a student I was tutoring who kept writing sentence fragments because he kept forgetting that sentences needed a subject and a predicate; he was constantly writing sentences without subjects. Every writing worksheet I gave him,…
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Continue reading →: How to Teach Kids Capitalization and End PunctuationsHere are some tips for teaching these rules. I’ve tutored many grade 3s and 4s in English writing and there are two things many of them frequently forget to do. And they are to capitalize certain words and to add end punctuation. Some students forget to do it and some…
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