Class went well yesterday, as it usually does, but we were exceptionally productive and engaged during the lesson.
After, reviewing the students’ homework, which I do every day, I identified the grammar structures that were most evident in their papers. Consistently, they were incorrectly using the verb "have," for example “He have a book.” They were also leaving off “s” at the end of present tense verbs or plural nouns, for example, “She love chocolate,” or “I see three cat.” These mistakes are actually very common among American deaf children. I then revisited these syntactic rules, and we went over some examples.
Next, I showed them various pictures of my pets, and we used these pictures to construct sentences using the rules we have been stuyding. I also introduced some new vocabulary. They need to keep expanding their vocabulary, so they will be able to write meaningful sentences. I continued focusing on simple present tense sentences but added possessive pronouns, something we had not discussed, yet. Their homework is to construct present tense sentences using possessive pronouns.
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