{"id":5641,"date":"2018-05-09T06:30:07","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T10:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/?p=5641"},"modified":"2018-05-31T17:43:24","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T21:43:24","slug":"beauty-and-beast-preposition-practice-new-digital-product","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/characterinkblog.com\/beauty-and-beast-preposition-practice-new-digital-product\/","title":{"rendered":"Beauty and the Beast Preposition Practice (FREE book download til June 15!)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I am so excited about my preposition book! (Yes, I get super excited about grammar!)<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m doubly excited that you (our subscribers!) get to see it and use it\u2014for FREE!<\/strong> (Scroll down below to subscribe and get it free until June 15th!)<\/p>\n

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Aboard, about, above. along, among, around\u2026.<\/h3>\n

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Whether your kids sing them, recite them, chant them, rap them, or write them\u2026prepositions are important.<\/p>\n

I learned them in chant-like form when I was in school. However, I never knew WHY I needed to learn them.<\/p>\n

My downloadable product will teach kids prepositions\u2014in a way that focuses on the WHY, that is, what prepositions really do!<\/p>\n

AND with the fun story line of the beloved Beauty and the Beast characters.<\/p>\n

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Our kids (and we!) need to learn prepositions for a few important reasons:<\/h3>\n

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(1) They are the beginning of prepositional phrases<\/p>\n

(2) Prepositional phrases can be mentally eliminated from a sentence in order to get to the bare bones of the sentence\u2026since the sentence\u2019s main subject and main verb are not usually found in prepositional phrases, This concept is imperative for subject-verb agreement solutions.<\/p>\n

(3) Prepositional phrases are good to use as openers\u2014especially lengthy ones\u2014as they vary sentence structure and rhythm.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m all about songs, jingles, rhymes, recitation, and mnemonics for learning parts of speech (and really anything). (My books are full of them—FANBOYS for coordinating conjunctions; Be, a Helper, Link Verbs song; Preposition Check Sentences; Subordinate Clause Opener rhyme; and much more!)<\/p>\n

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However, when prepositions are learned in songs or recitations, the real reasons for prepositions are overlooked. (Not to mention that they learn about thirty of the over two hundred prepositions\u2026.not enough memorized preps to adequately recognize them in sentences and use them for sentence openers!)<\/p>\n

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That is, students can chant a long list of words, but they do not know how to use them.<\/p>\n

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(In addition to this book, you can learn more about teaching prepositions in these blog posts, \u201cWhy Learn (or Teach!) Prepositions\u201d <\/a>and \u201cTeaching Prepositions.\u201d<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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Enter my Beauty and the Beast Preposition Practice! I use tricks. I use check sentences. I even use toys\u2014a character from the book\/movie AND a large castle—to teach prepositions (and practice them).<\/p>\n

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If you are not subscribed and would like this FREE book download, subscribe here!<\/h3>\n