Let us understand the basics on how to improve the language skills and why many of us show lack of understanding and interests. One major reason for lack of understanding or confusion is a textbook. Most content textbooks in middle and high schools are designed to fill as much information as possible in the textbook […]

Independent reading is a children’s reading of the text – such as books, magazines and newspapers – on their own, with no help from adults. There may be reading on or off school, including volunteer reading just for fun or for homework. Independent reading programs have been used in many classrooms to help encouraging the

Critical reading means that the reader uses specific processes, models, questions and theories that lead to improved clarity and comprehension. Reading critically does not, necessarily mean being critical of what you read. Both reading and critical thinking does not mean “criticizing” a particular idea, argument, or piece of writing – saying it is wrong or

Grammar and writing activities are so much fun. Especially the ‘fill in the blanks’ one is kids’ favourite. It is one of the most liked and enjoyable activities.  This activity is a part of Cloze Reading Strategies for Kids. The term might sound a bit odd, but it is just like a puzzle with some

You must have realized that human skills are always improved from when we were children to our age or maybe, or even the adults, right?  The same goes for our linguistic skills, which also improved from time to time. One of them is our ability to read. So, the progress of our ability to read

Hello there! Today, we are going to dive in and talk about the basics of teaching with an interactive read-aloud strategy. As a teacher, we need some strategies in order to make our lesson or learning activities more efficient, also to make it easy for both, the teacher and for the students. And the interactive

Before going into the types of clauses i.e. finite and non-finite, let us define the clause. In general, anything that contains a verb is a clause. It may be a dependent one or an independent one. A complete sentence is an independent clause that stands by its own and makes proper sense. It has a

Before babies could spell and utter their first word, they usually talk in the special way that babies do, which is babbling. With babbling, the babies are actually beginning to practice their voice box, mouth, breathing, and tongue to produce sounds.  This initial exercise certainly helps babies to be able to speak then because speaking

As the name itself suggests, a noun that possesses or owns something is called a possessive noun. Possessive nouns indicate the ownership by adding an apostrophe (’) or ‘s’ or both at the end of a noun. Most of you must know about apostrophes. An apostrophe is a comma that comes in between or after

In English, we have described the weather is a lot of different ways. Sometimes the weather is hot sometimes is it pinning cold. Similar different languages have different methods of describing the weather. This time we would be learning to describe weather in Spanish. Weather Expressions in English and Spanish In the first case, we