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Ramble

A reprint from 2013: Why would anyone anywhere anytime, let alone we who are innocently trying in the midst of an almost impossible situation (education in our schools at this time), doubt or find fault with anyone else? There is no room for that. We must have one goal and that is to be in […]

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vPQA Question

I got this great question on vPQA from Keri Colwell, whose name is now Biron as Colwell was her maiden name. This question needed to be asked: ….the vPQA seems wonderful. However, does it take away from the spontaneity of it all? I tried it once and it seemed to be a bit restricted since

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Curriculum Needed

This is from Robert Allen in Hong Kong. Can anyone in the group help? Hi Ben, Do you know if any large schools using TPRS would be willing to share a curriculum document or scheme of work detailing what is taught in what class in what year? It’s for trying to convince a head of

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Faux Personalization

We talk about personalization, but do we really know what it is? In spite of knowing how important it is to our overall success with TPRS, do we consciously make efforts to convey our feelings of joy that we are with those certain kids that day in that moment? We must absolutely choose discussion materials,

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Tigers

This is a post from 2009, from Carla. It is a great reminder for all of us about what is at the heart of PQA, as many of us are doing nothing but talking to the kids right now, getting them ready to read and write with confidence as soon as we can get that great auditory foundation

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TPR – 2

Here are some ideas on TPR for our Eric, who shows us how to take our TPR game up a level. This article also appeared on the moretprs list recently: https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/moretprs/conversations/messages/145543 Eric shares: Hi Ben – Noting the recent interest in TPR, I will share with you what I wrote about TPR in a personal

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