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How to Teach Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 1 How to Teach Nonrestrictive Relative Clauses: Grammar and Usage Lesson 30 How to Teach Nonrestrictive Relative...

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How to Teach Punctuation of Restrictive Clauses

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 2 How to Teach Punctuation of Restrictive Clauses: Mechanics Lesson 31 How to Teach Punctuation of Restrictive...

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How to Teach Restrictive Clauses

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 1 How to Teach Restrictive Clauses: Grammar and Usage Lesson 31 How to Teach Restrictive Clauses...

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How to Teach Punctuation of Direct Quotations

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 2 Latin Abbreviations for Time: Mechanics Lesson 32 How to Teach Punctuation of Direct Quotations...

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How to Teach Reciprocal Pronouns

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 1 Latin Abbreviations for Time: Grammar and Usage Lesson 32 How to Teach Reciprocal Pronouns...

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How to Teach Punctuation of Indirect Quotations

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 2 How to Teach Punctuation of Indirect Quotations: Mechanics Lesson 33 How to Teach Punctuation of Indirect...

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How to Teach Pronoun Antecedents

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 1 How to Teach Pronoun Antecedents: Grammar and Usage Lesson 33 How to Teach Pronoun Antecedents...

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How to Teach Punctuation of Direct Quotations

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 2 How to Teach Punctuation of Direct Quotations: Mechanics Lesson 34 How to Teach Punctuation of Direct Quotations...

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How to Teach Pronoun Number and Person Shifts

Teaching the Language Strand ©2014 Pennington Publishing Common Core Language Standard 1 How to Teach Pronoun Number and Person Shifts: Grammar and Usage Lesson 34 How to Teach Pronoun Number and...

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112 Writing Openers

These 112 Writing Openers are from the Teaching the Language Strand (of the Common Core State Standards) Grades 4−8 Language Convention lessons. Completely aligned to the Common Core State Standards,...

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How to Teach Writing Mechanics

How to Teach Writing Mechanics asks and provides possible answers to the What is (and isn’t) Writing Mechanics, Why Teach Writing Mechanics? When Should We Teach Writing Mechanics? What Writing...

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Grammar Scope and Sequence

Although the grammar debate* continues between 1.Those who favor part to whole (indirect, implicit, inductive) instruction and 2. Those who prefer whole to part (direct, explicit, deductive)...

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Mechanics Scope and Sequence

We may not all agree on using the Oxford (serial) comma. Some favor oranges, apples, and peaches. Others favor oranges, apples and peaches. English teachers tend to prefer the former, but journalists...

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Spelling Scope and Sequence

For many teachers, spelling instruction has taken a back seat to other instruction, especially in the ELA middle and high school classrooms. Perhaps this has been the case because of so many years in...

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Vocabulary Scope and Sequence

According the the authors of the Common Core State Standards… “The importance of students acquiring a rich and varied vocabulary cannot be overstated. Vocabulary has been empirically connected to...

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Grammar Program Choices

When it comes to grammar, teachers have a wide variety of instructional preferences. Broadly speaking, teachers agree that standard English grammar and usage needs to be learned, but they disagree on...

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The Serial (Oxford) Comma | For the Want of a Nail

“For the want of a nail the shoe was lost, For the want of a shoe the horse was lost, For the want of a horse the rider was lost, For the want of a rider the battle was lost, For the want of a battle...

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How to Teach Interactive Grammar

If I’m going to entice you to read this article by offering some how-to’s and free resources to teach grammar interactively, we had best get on the same page about what we both mean by grammar. I like...

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Grammar | Teaching in the Social Context

Language Conventions Academic Literacy Centers If we consider the traditional four communicative contexts of English-language arts (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and add on a fifth, the...

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Grammar Quiz for Teachers

Grammar Quiz for Teachers See how much you know about grammar by taking the 10 Question Grammar Quiz for Teachers. Don’t worry; I’ll dispense with the usual “If you score 9 or 10 out of 10, you are…”...

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