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Grammar Curriculum
“What Should A Grammar Curriculum Look Like?” is part ten of a part-ten series about a practical approach to teaching grammar. You may want to begin with part one. What could a grammar curriculum mean...
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Grammar Lesson Plans: Types of Sentences
Types of sentences: a grammar lesson plan. In a perfect ELA world, students arrive remembering all previous grammatical elements. (I know the previous year’s teacher taught grammar, just saying). So....
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Grammar Lesson Plans: Verbals
Verbals: a grammar lesson plan. Verbals, those tricky little words that look like verbs but aren’t verbs. Yes, the participle, gerund, and infinitive must be taught so that students can use them in...
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Grammar Lesson Plans: Parts of a Sentence
Parts of a sentence: a grammar lesson plan. Everyone labels “parts of a sentence” differently. My older students recognize subject and predicate (they can draw a line to separate the two), so I don’t...
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Ways to Scaffold Grammar
Scaffold grammar lessons and provide students with meaningful instruction. Jumping into a grammar lesson with little framework for students will create problems. Grammar belongs in discussions about...
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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...
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Use This Grammar Trick
Looking for a grammar trick? This one is simple, and it will provide students with a new way of looking at grammar. When I create my grammar lesson plans, I factor in starts and stops. Most lesson...
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Grammar Manipulations
Grammar manipulations – language students can hold. The goal of this is differentiated and scaffolded grammar activity is to allow students to manipulate their language. These grammar activities are...
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Grammar Lessons: Weeks 1 – 9
Grammar lessons: weeks 1 – 9. Grammar lessons for those first weeks of school. Hmmmmmm. I have a method, a method that I created after years of experience. I’ve detailed it below. First! I don’t...
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Non- Pronoun Worksheets: Alternatives for Teaching Pronouns
Looking for alternatives to pronoun worksheets – a non- pronoun worksheet? I am too. Pronouns are important in English. Students need to recognize them as subjects, they have to identify...
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Misconceptions about Teaching Grammar
I advocate teaching grammar, clearly. I read grammar books and studies because I am passionate about grammar. I write about methods for teaching grammar because I’ve seen students soar in ELA classes...
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Teaching Grammar for the First Time
Teaching grammar for the first time? Don’t give up too early! Welcome to ELA Today, a monthly chat where the authors of Reading and Writing Haven and Language Arts Classroom cover different ways of...
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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. Then, these students became teachers and...
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