What is an appositive phrase? Use this concept as a tool for students, not as a problem or as an error. The best part about teaching appositive phrases is that…
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Mastering Grammar Spiral Review: Practical Tips
Language and grammar spiral review provides consistent and effective lessons for language arts students to meet language standards. As a language arts teacher, I am fairly new to the attention…
Grammar Should Be “Understanding Language”
Understanding language and moving past grammar lessons: can we make the switch? Teaching language standards provides a new frame for discussing grammar. The more I write about grammar and read…
Digital Grammar Activities: Adding Meaning to Online Grammar
Digital grammar activities: we teachers can add meaning to our practice exercises. In the spring of 2020, I was thrown into online teaching like teachers across the world. The entire…
Master Teaching Clauses: Quick Tips for Success
Teaching clauses: independent and dependent clauses are an important part of sentence structure lessons. With these lessons, you’ll also be teaching important punctuation and parallelism rules in addition to teaching…
Master Teaching Commas: Effective Grammar Lesson Plan
Teaching commas can be overwhelming if you have no where to start. Today, I’m sharing my grammar lesson plan for commas with you, including how to teach comma usage in…
Mentor Sentences from Classic Literature
You will be able to pull mentor sentences from classic literature once you start looking at literature with language standards in mind. You will own powerful tools for adding deeper…
Preposition Lesson Plans That Don’t Bore Students
Preposition lesson plans can be engaging and meaningful to students, and they can include engaging preposition activities—more than preposition worksheets. I enjoy teaching prepositions. When I cover prepositions, I provide…
Mastering Adverb Lesson Plans: Your Essential Resource
hen Adverb lesson plans can move beyond adverb worksheets with a few well-placed activities. Adverbs can be tricky to identify, and they can be tricky in writing. Older learners are…
Unlocking Adjective Lesson Plans: Expert Insights
Adjective lesson plans are here! If you are looking for alternatives to adjective worksheets, I have ideas. My goal with any grammar instruction is to carry the ideas to other…