Quick Reference Cards

After the first Quick Reference Card was finished, I got excited and kept going. Now there are five available for download so that teachers can have quick and easy access to the key points of a Shoebox sentence, the various word types, and other information.

I also got tremendously excited by a comment made by a Year One teacher recently when she said that her students did not know what nouns and verbs were, so instead of them having to unlearn their previous (false or incomplete) definitions, they could simply start with the correct ones.

I chatted with my wife (a Junior Primary teacher) and we devised a little game and activity to help junior primary students understand and internalise the principles of sentence construction. If you are interested in a demonstration of how this works, let me know and I'll visit your class.