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The Reservoir:

The reservoir grows by adding these till it overflows into a waterfall of words in writing and speaking. Hard work and patience will produce the right reservoir.

1) Punctuation ( Even a dot counts in English, you should learn all, it decides the fall and rising of voice too.)

2)Letters (Every letter of the Alphabet of 26 letters counts, including the articles, they too decide the accurate pronunciation of words, never underestimate any of them)

3)Words (Letters form meaningful words, like nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, vocabulary etc. )

4)Phrases( Longer than a word, two or more words that form the same meaning.)

5)Clauses( Gets longer than a phrase before and after a comma, forming a complete sentence.)

6)Sentences( Gets longer than a clause, two or more clauses with a capital letter and full stop with proper sentence structures used in different styles and form. Each sentence has at least 10 words)

7)Paragraphs( Gets longer than a sentence, preferably five sentences making a paragraph for practice. Each paragraph carries one theme only and elaborated with clarity.)

8)Essays(Gets longer than a paragraph, preferably with five paragraphs in one essay, separated by one introduction paragraph, three body paragraphs and a conclusion paragraph for the many styles of writing as in narrative,descriptive, argumentative, factual, expository,letter-writing, speech-writings and open essays)

Note: When you have a complete reservoir  of 1) to 8) in your students, teaching them progressively into it, you can expect waterfalls of words overflowing through their writing and speaking at the end.

You have to stress the importance of these systematic learning in your students for them to perform. Even learning English Literature, comprehension will be made easy with this reservoir in them. Do not expect your students to perform well without this reservoir of knowledge invested in them.