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“She will have gone to the store by the time we get home.” The future perfect is a verb construction that tells about something that will take place in the future that is related to another event of some sort that will also take place in the future. These events are not dependent on each […]

Also Known As:Past Perfect Progressive The past perfect continuous (also called past perfect progressive) is used to show that there was an action that started at a point in the past which continued in the past, then stopped at another point in the past. It has a definitive starting point and a stopping point. The […]

Kids rarely pick a personality and stick with it from the moment they are born until adulthood. Most children will have times of silence and times of wild, ceaseless chatter. Children will fall silent for a while in the company of particular family or non-family members, then go back to including them in their conversations. […]

Common Core State Standards were adopted by 41 of the states by 2014. Since then, numerous studies, feedback, and blowback has been received about the standard initiative. It’s simple to say: The nation is divided. And, at the beginning of every year, more and more adults are choosing a side. Unfortunately, in the middle of […]

The pandemic has brought a lot of challenges to education. One big concern is that children and older students may find themselves with some significant learning gaps due to unexpected pauses in learning.To really understand the danger learning gaps present academically, one first has to understand what learning looks like without gaps.  What Is a […]

It may be time to start introducing words that start with H if you think your child has mastered their ABCs and words starting with letters A to G. Of course, you must not forget that jumping from one letter to another can be quite stressful for your child. As an adult, you may not […]

Teaching the parts of speech is an important undertaking. Unfortunately, it’s often also a dreadfully boring one as well. Whether you are a homeschooling parent, a tutor, a teacher, or you are a student trying to prepare for exams, it’s important to find a way to make learning about the parts of speech more interesting […]

An Introduction When parents are asked what they are most uncomfortable helping their children with academically, two things come up most often: math beyond middle school and teaching a child to read. Reading is confounding to most adults. They may have been too young to really remember a time before they were able to read, […]

Simple future is a tense that talks about the future. It is how we speak about things that have not yet happened. Simple future contains the word “will” to refer to something that has not yet taken place, and that is expected to happen. Next year, Sarah will go to college. You use the simple […]

Also Known As: Past Perfect Progressive The “perfect” tenses are so fun! However, in this context, “perfect” probably doesn’t mean what you think it does. In tense-sense, it means “complete” or “finished”. Past perfect means “completed in the past”. So, does the term “past perfect continuous” (or “progressive”) make sense? Progressive and continuous mean the […]