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The Shurley Method English Made Easy Level 2
The Shurley Method English Made Easy Level 2 Author:Brenda Shurley and Ruth Kemp Wetsell After teaching eighth grade English for one year, I felt frustration that my students did not retain and understand the material as well as they should have after a whole year's work. I could see that they could not remember and apply concepts that had been introduced and drilled on sporadically throughout the year. What had happened? I had w... more »orked hard and so had my students. Why had we failed? With further teaching experience I began to realize that a student cannot be expected to maintain a skill unless there are daily opportunities to call upon and apply it. As students are introduced to new materials in English, they tend to forget what they have studied previously. On the other hand, daily practice reinforces and promotes permanent retention of previously developed skills and prepares students to handle new material more successfully. What was needed was a method of teaching grammar that provided the needed daily practice of old skills while new skills were being added. I began to dvise such a method. Thus the Shurley Method was born.« less