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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Verb Activities for High School Students That Aren’t Too Young
Verb activities for high school students are important. Verbs are powerful tools in student writing and in their literature! Below, I’ve outlined vivid verb activities. Verbs: the backbone of sentences,…
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 students to clarify rules…
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,…
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 planning a grammar lesson. My first book, The English Grammar Workbook, was published…
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…
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. Then, these students became teachers and…
Teaching Grammar in Context
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…
Pronoun Worksheets and Alternatives for Teaching Pronouns
Looking for alternatives to pronoun worksheets, a non- pronoun worksheet? I am too. Teaching pronouns is an important foundational part of language lessons. Pronouns are important in English. Students need…
Grammar Lessons for High School: Weeks 1 – 9
Grammar lessons for high school: weeks 1 – 9. Below, I’ve outlined my parts of speech lessons for older students. . . often my first set of grammar activities for…