Activity
Pronouns
Expert (for Writers)
comportment
quixotic
aberrant
vouchsafe
accretion
extraneous
polemically
amorphous
inimical
pusillanimity
contravene
ostensibly
pedantic
vainglorious
truculent
schmaltzy
malfeasance (law)
maleficent (magic)
amelioration
consonant
permutation
carom
tranche
dirigiste
indolence
consummate
obduracy
foible
exigent
acumen
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Days, Months, Numbers, Shapes, Measures
Days
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Months
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
Numbers
zero
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
fourteen
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Read with Dot – About
Introduction
This began as a project in Taiwan. I had so many people asking for English lessons that I wouldn’t have had time for anything else. So, I started this, using Taiwan as my laboratory, with the hope that I could create a concise teaching tool that would empower anyone to learn, with the help of any eleven year old native English speak…
Study Dot – 9.
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Purple does not only highlight vocabulary, but also important patterns. Sometimes, purple draws attention by what it does not highlight as much as by what it does.
Dot by Dot – 8.
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Blue shows patterns before those patterns show up later when those patterns are no longer blue.
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Dotly Dot – 7.
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Turquoise shows adjectives and adverbs with the verbs they modify. It also draws attention to other patterns that work together with adjectives.
Why Dot – 6.
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Green highlights words and phrases when they first appear.
Dot and Una – 5.
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Yellow is more difficult to see, so yellow words are de-emphasized so as to emphasize verb patterns and yellow names may also be replaced with other names as an exercise. Yellow could be anything or anyone!
See Dots – 4.
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Orange highlights new words and terms the first time they appear.
See Dot – 3.
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Red highlights new words the first time they appear.
Dot Dot – 2.
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Writer’s fuchsia highlights vowel sounds.
Starting Phonics – 1.
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Phonic Sense
Vowels
Short & Long Vowel Words
Word Groups
Consonants
Combining Sounds: g, h, w, y, r, l, s, t, qu-, -ng, -nk
Other Rules
th – th
Odd Spellings
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
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To Be or Not to Be
Friends Romans Countrymen
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
The Declaration of Independence
IN CONGRESS, JULY 4, 1776
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America
The Little Red Hen
Quotes
If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter.
― John Locke?
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.
— "Serenity Prayer", Reinhold Niebuhr
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
― Henry Ford
Negative pe…
The Road Not Taken
Color
Gettysburg Address
Peter Rabbit
Punctuation
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The purpose for style standards is to keep the same things the same so that uniquenesses will stand out in celebration.
Abbreviations
Commas
Double Quotes
Single Quotes
Apostrophes’ Possessive
Dashes
Colon
Credit in Titles
Semicolon
Parentheses
Full Stop
Pound and Asterisk