Teaching nouns? Here are noun lessons you can personalize. A noun lesson is typically the first grammar assignment of the school year. Establishing a foundation with grammar is great! With…
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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,…
Verb Activities for High School Students
Verb activities for high school students are important. Verbs are powerful tools in student writing and in their literature! Verbs: the backbone of sentences, the fun part of sentences, the…
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…
Hands-On Grammar Lessons
Hands-on grammar lessons: students holding and engaging with their language? Yes, please. Students LOVE manipulating, playing, and holding their language with grammar manipulatives. When I talk about hands-on grammar lessons,…
Grammar Must Be Taught, Differently
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: An Author Shares Her Secrets
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…