Verb

___________________________________________________________________ Game! Charades (imagen de alumnos jugando charadas) Divide the class into two teams. The teacher will call one student from one team to the front of the class, and show him one verb and one adverb (for example: run angrily). The student must act these words out. If his/her team can guess the two words, the team gets one point.…

Each person is often identify with different factors that allow us to be unique such as culture and language. Culture is usually defined depending the person’s belief, styles of life depending the place they live in and customs. This definition leads to the believe that culture is fixed factor that only defines the person’s past. In a similar way, language is also viewed a fixed factor that allows us to communicate with each other. We ignore the impact that culture and language has in our…

story. 12b) Since grotesque is defined by terms such as malformed or distorted, three details to suggest this include: the great warped chest of the hunchback, his hump on his shoulders, and the hunchback's thin and crooked legs. 12c) The change in verb tenses throughout the excerpt holds a very deep meaning because it marks a very important change. This is the establishment of the café. The start of the excerpt first begins with the use of past tense or the…

There are many difficulties and struggles that a First Generation American student like myself experience on the daily. My main struggle is the language barrier with English reading and writing. Growing up with foreign parents was not the easiest thing, but ended up being worthwhile at the end. My first and native language is Polish. I had not learned the English language till I started preschool and that is where I learned it from. Due to not knowing English well enough, I had to go to…

Another example in avoiding excessive use of verb forms in a sentence “There are a number of factors that are believed to be significant in adopting school uniforms in public schools.” This sentence should be written as: “Number of factors believed to be significant in adopting school uniforms…

‘Burger’ is a word used by Americans to describe a beef or chicken patty stuffed between two buns and cheese. However, in Pakistan it is used to describe someone who wants to be, or is, ‘westernized.’ Westernized here refers to someone who can fluently speak English, goes to a private school, is ‘modern’ and wears jeans. On the other hand is the ‘Bun Kebab’(local food) who can be defined as someone who attends a local school or university with other Bun Kebabs, knows more Urdu than English, may…

A scarf activity is a great activity for a story time class. It acts as an extension of the story and can really help with inciting some movement as well. Our students always react with such excitement at the sight of the scarves. We're sure it's the same with yours. Given the fact that we are still working through our "Ocean" themed ideas, we created this fun and simple song\rhyme, with jellyfish in mind, which works really well with scarves. It illustrates the movement of the jellyfish using…

Participant and Setting The participant was a six-year-old, first grade female named Mary. Mary did not have any diagnosed disabilities. She attended a private school Monday thru Friday for an average of 35 hours per week. While at school, Mary participated in an in-school tutoring program for students identified by their teacher as struggling readers. The in-school tutoring occurred twice a week for one hour each day. In addition, Mary’s parents paid for her to go to private tutoring for…

J is for the jitters. We’re all nervous about making a difference as we go out into the world and being something bigger than ourselves. For that though, I think Jim Carrey said it best when he said “like many of you, I was concerned with going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself, until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitless of my…

The purpose of running records is for teachers to assess their students and observe reading behaviors. Running records determine whether or not a student is ready to move up a level or stay at the same level. It’s an opportunity for teachers to be able to differentiate instruction for students based on their academic needs. It entails the teacher taking notes when the student is orally reading a leveled text. Part one of the reading record is the teacher assessing the student as he or she reads.…