It's always tough to know how to start the year with a new group of writers...and this year brings more challenges than most. I...

    The teaching of grammar has always been fraught with peril. Since I started teaching in 1997, the general consensus seems to have be...

In 20 years of teaching, I've learned a thing or two about teaching grammar. Specifically, I've noticed: Worksheets don't wor...

This year, I've been working on daily sentence composing with my students. Each week, students have been unscrambling, imitating, or com...

I really love using sentence composition activities as teaching tools for writing and grammar. This year, most of my grammar instruction has...

We had a great morning talking about grammar and the Common Core! Looking for the language standards by strand and then lining them up in gr...

I'm working on a new teacher workshop for next week--Grammar and the Common Core. Hooray! Sitting and sifting through research articles ...

During state testing, I decided to teach some quick and easy grammar. I wanted to design a few fun lessons that would be engaging for kids a...

I love the book Greedy Apostrophe by Jan Carr. In this book, the punctuation marks all take jobs from the Director. But Greedy Apostrophe w...

I've always had a love/hate relationship with grammar lessons. In my own life, I really love grammar. I love the way that one word can c...

Fun with nouns! Well--maybe. I guess it depends on your definition of fun. While students were sharing their journal entries, I played a l...