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Kids rarely pick a personality and stick with it from the moment they are born until adulthood. Most children will have times of silence and times of wild, ceaseless chatter. Children will fall silent for a while in the company of particular family or non-family members, then go back to including them in their conversations. […]

Common Core State Standards were adopted by 41 of the states by 2014. Since then, numerous studies, feedback, and blowback has been received about the standard initiative. It’s simple to say: The nation is divided. And, at the beginning of every year, more and more adults are choosing a side. Unfortunately, in the middle of […]

The pandemic has brought a lot of challenges to education. One big concern is that children and older students may find themselves with some significant learning gaps due to unexpected pauses in learning.To really understand the danger learning gaps present academically, one first has to understand what learning looks like without gaps.  What Is a […]

It may be time to start introducing words that start with H if you think your child has mastered their ABCs and words starting with letters A to G. Of course, you must not forget that jumping from one letter to another can be quite stressful for your child. As an adult, you may not […]

Simple future is a tense that talks about the future. It is how we speak about things that have not yet happened. Simple future contains the word “will” to refer to something that has not yet taken place, and that is expected to happen. Next year, Sarah will go to college. You use the simple […]

Also Known As: Past Perfect Progressive The “perfect” tenses are so fun! However, in this context, “perfect” probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. In tense-sense, it means “complete” or “finished”. Past perfect means “completed in the past”. So, does the term “past perfect continuous” (or “progressive”) make sense? Progressive and continuous mean the […]

As the names suggest, this verb tense is what we use when talking about something that happened “before now”, or in the past, and either “progressed” or “continued” for a set amount of time, or until another event occurred. Past continuous happens until something else interrupts it or at the same time another event is […]

Also Known As: Present Perfect Progressive Verb Tense Present perfect continuous is like a mashup of present perfect and present continuous. Remember, in speaking of verb tenses, “perfect” means “complete”. However, here’s the mind boggling part: “continuous” means “progressive”, or making progress. Those ideas seem to be direct opposites, don’t they? Oh, English. You are […]