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Teaching grammar for the first time? Don’t give up too early! You’re teaching grammar – more than as a bandage to writing, more than circling nouns on a worksheet. You…

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…