...For Phonics and Reading, I focused on vowel and consonant recognition and sounds, blends, rhyming words, decoding (syllables), phonetic games, pronunciation, expression. For Reading Comprehension, I focused on comprehension, main ideas and Supporting details, cause and effect, expression and Drawing conclusions. I taught Phonics for two years. (read more)
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...Trignometry involves the relations of the sides and angles of triangles; it is to find a missing side or angle in a triangle. For example, given one side of a triangle and two angles in the triangle, then the other two sides and the remaining angle are determined. It also deals with the special function, sin, cos and tan and the inverse of these functions, cot, sec, and csc. (read more)
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