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…
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Teaching Nouns: Noun Lessons To Get Students Moving
Teaching nouns? Here are noun lessons you can personalize. I’ve even included how to teach nouns online! A noun lesson is typically the first grammar assignment of the school year.…
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…
Verb Activities That Don’t Bore Students
Verb activities are important because so many future grammar lessons build off verbs. Verbs are powerful tools in student writing and in their literature! Below, I’ve outlined vivid verb activities.…
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 classes for dozens of…
Grammar Must Be Taught, Differently
Grammar must be taught. How we teachers cover grammar, that is the difference. If you are an ELA teacher on social media, you’ve likely seen the meme that quotes this…
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 sequencing grammar. My first book, The English Grammar Workbook, was published in 2018.…
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…