ABSTRACT
Accelerated Auditory Patterning (AAP) can be played to teach any patterned concept in grammar. This chapter explains about the first graders who are having trouble in switching between past and present verb tenses for both regular and irregular verbs in their writing. The first graders that Barb refers to are English language learners, but the intervention that author suggests will help native speakers also because: it includes a vocabulary component, and it can be adapted to other grammatical problems. We all know that chains of words that convey a message are easily and automatically learned through rhythm and repetition. Repetition is a strong tool of learning, but repetition 'just to memorize something' is boring, and boredom undercuts learning. The chapter looks at how Barb went about using AAP along with explicit teaching about verbs: how to identify action verbs in a sentence, what it means to conjugate a verb, and how to learn the quirky ways of irregular verbs.
