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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…

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 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…