Once a student learns to count to ten, they can easily learn to count to one hundred. A quick way to teach students to count and write to 100, once they’ve learned to count/write from 1 to 10, is to have them to vertically write the numbers 1 through 10 on a sheet of paper and add zeros to each number, or better put to instantly learn to count by 10’s to 100. Emphasize that counting by 10’s is similar to counting from 1 to 10, i.e., one (1) becomes ten (10), two (2) becomes two-enty or twenty (20), three (3) becomes thirty (30), four (4) becomes fourty, five (5) becomes fifty, six (6) becomes sixty (60), seven (7) becomes seventy (70), eight (8) becomes eighty (80), nine (9) becomes ninety (90), and ten (10) becomes one hundred (100). Once the student has mastered this concept, have them to successively write the numbers one through nine (1-9) after each ten. And there it is…

This is a reference for students that I created reciting and discussing the parts of speech and the parts of a sentence. Click here to view, download, and print. Parts of Speech-Parts of a Sentence

One of my favorite motivational songs/videos. Nas “I Know I Can”

This is a regrouping conversion chart that I created for student distribution and memorization to facilitate multiple-digit addition and subtraction. Click here to view/download. Regrouping Conversion Chart

I intervened a while back during a lecture in which an instructor I was working with was teaching about complete and fragmented sentences. She’d written a list of sentences and fragmented sentences on the board that the students were to properly classify. The first sentence she listed was “She is.” As the instructor explained to the students that this was a “fragmented sentence,” I interjected that it was actually a complete sentence, “She” the (simple) subject and “is” the (simple) predicate or third person singular present tense of the verb “to be”… Although the term “is” is frequently used as a copula or linking verb, since it is a verb, its exclusive use with a subject forms a complete sentence. I decided that I’d run this by an English expert/instructor at another school where I’d accepted an assignment, and she agreed with me.  Kissing my brain.

This is one of my very favorite poems. I first heard it during an assembly at Humes Middle School in Memphis, one of my alma maters. Click here to download/print a copy: I’m Determined to Be Somebody Someday by Herbert W. Brewster