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Teaching punctuation

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I just checked out some books from the local library to teach Ramam punctuation. Here are the titles. Punctuation takes a vacation Punctuation station Alfie the apostrophe Yo! yes The girl's like spaghetti, why, you cant imagine without apostrophes! Greedy Apostrophe: a cautionary tale. Twenty-odd ducks: why , every punctuation mark counts!                                The illustrations are a delight in themselves in all the books.  This one is form the book, twenty- odd ducks.                                              The punctuation station book also has some beautiful illustrations with a ticket window for the tall animals and an another one for the shorter ones, My 6 th grader daughter also enjoyed these books.               ...
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Ramam being in ESE high school, my priorities as to what I should teach him in functional academics seems to be getting clearer. This would be a long term project with the beginning, interim and advanced stages. a) One being to execute a simple transaction, which would be to do with word problems and actual handling of money. b)To know where to look for the items in the correct aisles c)To know after a purchase where would the things go in , do they belong to the pantry, to the fridge, basically categorization d) Making a grocery list e) Buy items needed selectively for a recipe. f) Compare the prices of generic and branded products g) Understand the savings when buying things on a discount. h) comparing the prices online, with brick and mortar stores. i) Making a budget to go shopping Now to begin the process I the process. Eventually a used the online shopping app of Publix and their fliers.I found the app Proloquo2 go very handy to help me put the categorization in place. ...