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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…

Hands-on grammar: students holding and engaging with their language? Yes, please. Students LOVE manipulating, playing, and holding their language with grammar manipulatives. If you don’t know what grammar manipulatives are,…

Types of sentences worksheets, activities, lessons, tricks, and more! Simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences: these sentences are tough to recognize. You might be intimidated to teach them. This post…

Grammar must be taught. How we teachers cover grammar, that is the difference. If you are an ELA teacher on social media, you’ve likely seen the meme that quotes this…

How to Build a Grammar Lesson: This post aims to help you from start to finish. My first book, The English Grammar Workbook, was published in 2018. While writing it, I figured…

“Grammar” is more than a key to better writing. So often, teachers will tell me that grammar does not help student writing. I think in a certain way, that yes,…

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…