Category: English
Part of an English language learning curriculum, different from “Reading”
K Academic Terms
Tests (SAT & TOEFL)
K-12 Words
111 Casual Sentences
Literacy Zones
Adjective Spellings
Verb Spellings
Countries, Mountains, Waters & Islands
Pronouns
Expert (for Writers)
Days, Months, Numbers, Shapes, Measures
Starting Phonics – 1.
From the Read with Dot series
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YouTube Playlist (for all videos on this page)
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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Color
Punctuation
Doc on Google Drive | Simple HTML | The Punctuation Guide
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
Capitalization
202 Adjectives
303 Verbs
Doc on Google Drive | Simple HTML | 303 Verbs Scroll App
*Practice Person and Voice. (For Passive Voice, use Perfect sentences and verbs with ‘been’ or Gerund sentences with Perfect verbs.)
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181 Sight Words
131 Sound Words
88 Typing Words
Doc on Google Drive | Simple HTML | 88-Word Hanon App | GitHub
Keyboard vectors on Google Drive: PDF | SVG | SVG-TEXT
The Word Hanon 88 typing method is a perfect place to begin! This app’s typing area disables drag-and-drop, cut, paste, and auto-word-completion so that students can’t cheat! Copy is still enabled so students can keep a record of their progress.
(After learning to type with proper fingers, the PinkWrite 99 typing box is an excellent tool for basic typing composition!)
Keyboard is a technique, whether typing or playing piano.
Firstly, practice these using correct fingers:
- asdfjkl;
- qweruiop
- zxcvm,./
- asdfghjkl;’
- qwertyuiop[]\
- zxcvbnm,./
- `1234567890-=
Then, practice these 88 words, in order, about 50 times each…
To keep improving typing, do numbers zero through twenty, then colors, then other basic vocabulary, then short sentences. After all that, you can be very good at “sight typing”.
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WH – Relative and Interrogative Clauses
14 Pronouns
Verb Tense & Mood
Noun Case
12 Rules of English
Confusing Words
Confusing Words
Handwriting
Handwriting curriculum with reference and practice sheets, print through cursive
(downloads available as PDFs on Google Drive)
Writing 101
Basic Print
Transition
Phonics Writing
Practice Sheets
Cursive
Numbers
Notes