I once heard two people discussing how to eat a mango. One person was revealing with some enthusiasm to the other that they had just figured it out. “Just cut the cheeks off,” they exclaimed, “and then cut into them horizontally and vertically, Then pop the squares out!” I could tell by the way thatContinue reading “But seriously, what is Happening?”
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Where to now? Functional grammar in the classroom.
I struggled at writing “correctly” in school. I loved writing, but I struggled with the editorial skills of punctuation, paragraphing and spelling. I remember writing a speech one day (Yep, you better believe it, I was in the debating team! First speaker rocks!), and I recall the freedom that came from writing a text thatContinue reading “Where to now? Functional grammar in the classroom.”