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.…
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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. Some English teachers tell me that…
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, engaging activities, and fun activities? I am too. Teaching pronouns is an important foundational part of language lessons. Pronouns are important in English. Students…
Grammar Lessons for High School
Grammar lessons for high school must be applicable to content as well as mindful for older students’ unique needs. What are the most important grammar rules to teach in high…
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 classes…