Even though you are a good student, have you had the chance to be riding home on a school bus and dreading the moment when you’d have to hand your report card over to your mom and dad? What may have made it worse was that you saw it coming. After several low test scores [...]
Many students feel that listening is merely hearing. But as many of us know, merely letting words pour into our ears is not listening. Yet, listening is the most used technique of learning.To assist you in becoming a better listener, you should consider a set of rules called LISAN. The letters of this mnemonic device [...]
Q: I read an editorial in The Orange County Register last Sunday about how local students are not learning even the basics about our culture. I thought the article was an exaggeration until I asked my daughter some of the questions in the article. She didn’t have a clue what many of the answers were! [...]
According to Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff and Sandee E. Hathaway, B.S.N., the authors of What to Expect the Toddler Years, the rate of language development can vary greatly from toddler to toddler. Some speak as early as eight months, some as late as two years. Studies have shown that earlier speech is not an [...]
The study of grammar has suffered an unfortunate decline in recent years. As schools become more focused on preparing students for standardized tests, traditional grammar studies have taken a back seat to other subjects such as mathematics, vocabulary, problem solving and reasoning skills, etc. While these are all very valuable things to know, there is [...]