Teaching punctuation rules? I have a punctuation guide for teachers and students! Teaching punctuation cannot happen in a “unit.” When we present punctuation resources and never tie those ideas to…
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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…
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…
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…
Discover the Best Middle School Grammar Curriculum
“Discover the Best Middle School Grammar Curriculum” is part ten of a part-ten series about a practical approach to teaching grammar. You may want to begin with part one. In…
Connecting Grammar and Writing
‘Connecting Grammar and Writing’ is part five of a ten-part series covering grammar in middle school and high school English classes. Start with part one and follow the links to the…