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Dealing With a Language Barrier

This year, one of my students speaks very little English. I have had students in my classes before who learned English as a second language. For those students, vocabulary proved to be an issue, particularly at the high school level. In addition, when they wrote, sometimes their sentences would end up being structured more as […]

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Summer Reading . . . er . . . Listening . . .

Summer is a great time to read books! Summer is also a great time to listen to audiobooks! This summer, so far, I have finished Reading Lolita in Tehran, The Ugly Stepsister, The Cry of the Halidon, Lady of Devices, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Shackled (short one by Michael Wisehart which I got […]

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