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Month: October 2017

THE POWER OF HOWEVER: Strategies for strengthening transactional writing

October 24, 2017 paulgmoss

If you want your students to succeed in their transactional writing (a scheme is available here), one of the most powerful techniques you can teach

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HOMEWORK is a new strategy

October 22, 2017 paulgmoss

Forget about all the negative past conceptions of homework. When set properly, HOMEWORK is a new strategy to improve learning. With the changes in curricula

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