If you teach English as a langauge, you’ve probably seen this pattern with the simple past & present perfect: I
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If you teach English as a langauge, you’ve probably seen this pattern with the simple past & present perfect: I
I’ve taught STAAR English I and English II for the past 12 years, and every single year I dissect the
If you use YouTube videos in your classroom, you’re probably aware of how powerful visuals can be for language learners.
When I first started teaching English as a language, I came across an intermediate lesson that left me a bit
The most common mistake I see with the simple present tense, even among my more advanced students, is dropping the
Every year, the STAAR English 1 and English 2 exam is released and teachers face the same question:Where should we
You know when you tell students, “You have five minutes left,” and ten minutes later, they’re still talking? We’ve all
As students begin to build strength with subject pronouns, they naturally expand into possessive adjectives. However, they often use them
When my good friend Diana, who teaches 9th-grade AP Human Geography, lamented about she had a student line a mile
If you teach beginner ESL, chances are the verb to be is one of the first grammar points you introduce.
How many times have you asked a student a question, and they look at you, shrug, and say… “I don’t
Picture this: You’re introducing classroom objects to your new ESL students. You hold up a flash card, but instead of
