Adjective lesson plans are here! If you’re writing adjective lesson plans for older students, you’ll want age-appropriate activities. These grammar activities are easy to personalize and will support your grammar…
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Teaching Active and Passive Voice
Teaching active and passive voice with older students? Here are some lesson plans and conversation starters. Understanding active and passive voice is a tool for reading, writing, and listening. Consider…
Conjunctions Lesson Plans: Teaching Conjunctions
Conjunctions lesson plans? I have an overview for you! I picture conjunctions as puzzle pieces, as glue. Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses. The biggest decision in conjunctions lesson plans…
Teaching Nouns: Noun Lessons
Teaching nouns? Here are noun lessons you can personalize. Why are we learning nouns? Dependent upon the age you teach, students need to be aware of nouns so that: They…
Grammar Activities: Grammar Hunts
Looking for grammar activities that won’t cost you any money? Seriously. You can create these activities with your trash. A grammar hunt is simply when you search for a grammar…
Writing Complete Sentences: Helping Students with Incomplete Sentence Structure
Are your students struggling with writing completing sentences? In this post, I share ideas for supporting young writers. I truly believe that students possess good ideas. They might not know…
Grammar Lessons: Weeks 10-18
Grammar lessons for the second quarter are here! Weeks 10-18 are below. I’ve taught at numerous schools, and most freshmen need a review of basic grammar concepts. In a previous post,…
Teaching Verbs with Older Students
Teaching verbs with older students? Verbs are powerful tools in student writing and in their literature! Verbs: the backbone of sentences, the fun part of sentences, the words connected to…
What kind of grammar lesson will you write?
What grammar lesson do you want your students to see? The approach we take with each grammar lesson will influence how our students interact with future discussions concerning language. (I…
Engaging Grammar Activities for Review
Engaging grammar activities for review. Reflecting on my teaching experiences, I review grammar with students to clarify rules for college entrance exams. We review grammar before final exams. We review…