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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…

Looking to benefit from mentor sentences and interactive notebook activities, perhaps together? My students and I discuss grammar as a natural extension with literature and nonfiction – normally by pulling sentences…

Scaffold grammar lessons and provide students with meaningful instruction. Jumping into a grammar lesson with little framework for students will create problems. Grammar belongs in discussions about literature, writing, and…

Parts of a sentence: a grammar lesson plan.  Everyone labels “parts of a sentence” differently. My older students recognize subject and predicate (they can draw a line to separate the…

Verbals: a grammar lesson plan. Verbals, those tricky little words that look like verbs but aren’t verbs. Yes, the participle, gerund, and infinitive must be taught so that students can…

Types of sentences: a grammar lesson plan. In a perfect ELA world, students arrive remembering all previous grammatical elements. (I know the previous year’s teacher taught grammar, just saying.) So.…