Teaching grammar in context? Teaching grammar in context activities? ELA teachers can accomplish this task. You’re teaching grammar as more than as a bandage to writing, more than circling nouns…
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Grammar Errors in Student Essays
Grammar errors in student essays can frustrate students and teachers. I advocate teaching grammar, clearly. I read grammar books and studies because I am passionate about grammar. I write about…
Pronoun Worksheets and Alternatives for Teaching Pronouns
Looking for alternatives to pronoun worksheets, a non- pronoun worksheet, fun pronoun activities? I am too. Teaching pronouns is an important foundational part of language lessons. Pronouns are important in…
Grammar Lessons for High School
What are the most important grammar rules to teach in high school? The most important grammar rules to teach in high school include subject-verb agreement, proper use of punctuation, sentence…
Grammar Manipulatives
Grammar manipulatives: language students can hold. Language arts manipulatives are easy to add to your classroom. The goal of this is differentiated and scaffolded grammar activity is to allow students…
Mentor Sentences and Interactive Notebook Ideas
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 from…
Ways to Scaffold Grammar
Scaffold grammar lessons and provide students with meaningful instruction. Grammar and usage in the classroom can be taught successfully with purposeful scaffolding. Make ELA scaffolding a part of purposeful strategies…
Parts of a Sentence Activities
Parts of a sentence activities: more than parts of sentence worksheets. Identify parts of a sentence with students! You can (and will) identify parts of a sentence with your students…
Verbals Lessons: Grammar Sorts, Task Cards, Mentor Sentences
Verbals lessons: more than verbal worksheets, actual engaging verbals practice. Teaching verbals can be a fun part of meeting language standards. Verbals, those tricky little words that look like verbs…
Learn How to Teach Sentence Structure Effectively
Looking for helpful grammar lesson plans on how to teach sentence structure? In this post, I’ll share ideas for teaching sentence structure with simple, compound, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Since…