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Help your child improve in Spanish

Hola Reader,
Continuing on the theme we touched on last time, organization rules.
As a teacher, I see the bookbags filled with papers, I see notebooks filled with worksheets, and I see confused looks on faces when I ask for last nights homework.
I’m sure you know already but it doesn’t hurt to mention it one more [...]

Help your child improve in Spanish

Hola Reader,
Your child needs to be organized. Especially at study time. They need to have certain things each time they sit down to study in any subject.
In math it’s a calculator, in English it’s a dictionary, and in Spanish it is one resource for any questions concerning verbs and their [...]

Help your child improve in Spanish

Hola Reader,
Here’s another way to utilize the power of mnemonics with your child to see better results quickly.
It’s the second sub-category of mnemonics: acrostics. This happens to be my favorite.
For this group, you take the first letter of a series of items you need to memorize and create a sentence with the [...]

Help your child improve in Spanish

Hola Reader,
First I’d like to introduce you to the most powerful way to memorize available to your child today…in any subject.
It’s called mnemonics.
Did you know that mnemonics is a general term that applies to many types of learning strategies that simplify memorization for students?
Much like the term Math, which has [...]

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