One of the pivotal moments in my career as an educator came during an email exchange with Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach, a long-time Teacher Leaders Network colleague and friend. We were wrestling with the ...

A handy list of links to resources for teaching verbs Stage 2: Saying what you do. Grammar Tip: 1st and 2nd person endings of regular verbs. Common irregular verbs: être, aller, faire, avoir. Stage 3: ...

Modal verbs are words that change the meaning of other verbs. We use them to express if something is certain, likely, possible or impossible. Words like ‘could’, ‘would’, ‘may’, ‘can’, ‘must’, and ...

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"Go" and "want" might actually be more useful than "dog." What were your first words? Odds are, if you grew up in the United States speaking English, these words were nouns. Nouns like mama, dada, a ...

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A verb describes an action, state or occurrence. This is Ahmed. Ahmed isn’t doing anything. Ahmed is not a verb. Ahmed is a noun. In fact, Ahmed is a proper noun. But if Ahmed does something then we ...