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Present in Style - Beginning English Powerpoint
I love making powerpoints. They lend themselves to visuals. It's easy to add music and video to them. Plus - you can project them onto...

Serena Gammon
Feb 17, 20211 min read


Imagine UP #2 - Graphics for a Lesson Plan
You've already seen a lesson on "UP is higher on a vertical axis." But what if that axis becomes a path? We now access the metaphor: ...

Serena Gammon
Nov 17, 20203 min read


Imagine UP #1 - Graphics for a Lesson Plan
If you want to create a graphic for the classroom you have two choices: abstract image, or descriptive image. The abstract image is an...

Serena Gammon
Nov 17, 20203 min read


Core Meaning and Clay Modeling: A Lesson Plan
I think clay modeling is an excellent way to really visualize the core meaning of a particle/adverb/preposition, and then creatively...

Serena Gammon
Nov 10, 20202 min read


Clay Modeling - Serrano-Lopez, 2003
If you have children in kindergarten or first grade, you might have already seen this technique used. Instead of reading words or saying...

Serena Gammon
Nov 10, 20203 min read


Illustrating Polysemy: Go on Butterfly! (Lesson Plan)
Most phrasal verbs are polysemous, meaning that they have more than one meaning. Let's explore this starting with the very first verb...

Serena Gammon
Nov 9, 20202 min read


Benjamin White's Teaching Model
Benjamin White (2012) proposed a new cognitive approach for teaching phrasal verbs. His lesson plan looks something like this: Reorient...

Serena Gammon
Nov 9, 20202 min read
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