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…
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Digital Grammar Activities: Adding Meaning to Online Grammar
Digital grammar activities: we teachers can add meaning to our lessons. I know many of us are teaching grammar virtually, and many more of us want fun ways to teach…
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…
Teaching Commas to Students: 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…
Your Ultimate Guide to Adjective Lesson Plans
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…
Teaching Active and Passive Voice with Older Students
Teaching active and passive voice with older students? An active and passive voice lesson plan? Active passive voice activities? Conversation starters? So! You would like a lesson plan for active and passive…
Conjunctions Lesson Plans: Teaching Conjunctions in Diverse Ways
Conjunctions lesson plans? Conjunctions activities? Here is an overview of teaching conjunctions for you! Conjunctions: puzzle pieces, glue. Conjunctions join words, phrases, and clauses. You are probably looking for activities…