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I’ve taught middle school grammar before. Here are a few tricks I developed to make lessons meaningful. I taught middle school… six years ago? My administration provided a straightforward directive:…

Recently, I’ve seen a weird and unfortunate joke popping up online. There are posters, mugs, t-shirts and memes: I’m Silently Correcting Your Grammar. As an English teacher, I’m always interested…

The English Grammar Workbook for Grades 6, 7, and 8 is now available for preorder on Amazon. In The English Grammar Workbook for Grades 6, 7, and 8 I offer…

Grammar matters: a grammar pep talk.  Many teachers today never experienced grammar lessons as students. Some teachers never took a language class in college. Then, these students became teachers and…

Teaching grammar for the first time? Don’t give up too early! Welcome to ELA Today, a monthly chat where the authors of Reading and Writing Haven and Language Arts Classroom…

I advocate teaching grammar, clearly. I read grammar books and studies because I am passionate about grammar. I write about methods for teaching grammar because I’ve seen students soar in ELA…

Looking for alternatives to pronoun worksheets – a non- pronoun worksheet? I am too. Pronouns are important in English. Students need to recognize them as subjects, they have to identify…

Grammar lessons: weeks 1 – 9. Grammar lessons for those first weeks of school. Hmmmmmm. I have a method, a method that I created after years of experience. I’ve detailed…

Grammar manipulations – language students can hold. The goal of this is differentiated and scaffolded grammar activity is to allow students to manipulate their language. These grammar activities are not…

Looking for a grammar trick? This one is simple, and it will provide students with a new way of looking at grammar. When I create my grammar lesson plans, I…