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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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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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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View Article112 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,...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleGrammar 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)...
View ArticleMechanics 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...
View ArticleSpelling 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...
View ArticleVocabulary 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...
View ArticleGrammar 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleGrammar | 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...
View ArticleGrammar 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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