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Gesturing To Have and To Be

Not just the most common verbs, these two may be the hardest ones of all to gesture. I have never had success with them and am going to try this next year: For “to have”

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I Just Need More Reps

In a press conference last month at the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, GA, Tiger Woods made a very simple response to a reporter’s question about why he wasn’t playing well: Q: I know you

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Reading Detail

This link is pretty interesting. It supports what we do when we use questioning. It can help us when we do Kindergarten Day. The key part of the article is the middle section. Small Change

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Mes Salutations Distinguées

This is from a student with two years of CI, whom I no longer teach, now taking an AP class in her third year: Dear Mr. Slavic, First off I wanted to thank you for being

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That’s Just Stupid

I don’t know the science, but I feel intuitively that there is a correlation between kids who are forced to speak too early and stuttering. Maybe messing with the neurology that produces speech too early is not

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