Looking for grammar activities that won’t cost you any money? Seriously. You can create these grammar hunts with your trash or extra activities. A grammar hunt is simply when you…
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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 and my ideas for teaching them how to write a complete sentence. I…
Verb Activities That Don’t Bore Students
Verb activities are important because so many future grammar lessons build off verbs. Verbs are powerful tools in student writing and in their literature! Below, I’ve outlined vivid verb activities.…
Engaging Grammar Activities for Review
Engaging grammar activities for review. . . these fun grammar activities will cement your grammar lessons. Reflecting on my teaching experiences, I complete grammar review with classes for dozens of…
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 with sequencing grammar. My first book, The English Grammar Workbook, was published in 2018.…
Middle School Grammar
I’ve taught middle school grammar before. Here are a few tricks I developed to make grammar for middle school meaningful, for making grammar exercises for middle school count. I taught…
The English Grammar Workbook for Grades 6, 7, and 8
The English Grammar Workbook for Grades 6, 7, and 8 is now available for preorder live on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Target,. . . Well: English grammar workbooks for middle…
Grammar Matters—It Matters How We Teach It
Grammar matters: a grammar pep talk. Many teachers today never experienced grammar lessons as students. Some teachers never took a language class in college. Some English teachers tell me that…