Reading Approach
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Repetition with Modification
When practicing new grammar, it is best to work with sentences that isolate that grammar with minimal distraction from, e.g., new vocabulary or other complicated grammar. Textbooks often do not adequately isolate the new grammar in their practice sentences, thus dividing the student’s attention. When our students complete a lesson, we want them to incorporate…
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Reading Approach
Reading approaches took off in the 1970s and 80s with the publication of a variety of different textbooks that undertook to teach Latin and Greek by introducing stories and short passages from the start. The basic idea underpinning this method is to get students reading accessible stories from the start and have them learn grammatical…