Category · 413 articles
Grammar & Mechanics

22 Comma Rules
22 Comma Rules provide concise rules and clear examples to improve your mastery of mechanics.

How to Teach the Common Core Spelling Standards
In How to Teach the Common Core Spelling Standards, author Mark Pennington details what the authors of the Common Core have to say about spelling instruction.

How to Teach the Common Core Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Standards
Read the research and organizational design of the Common Core Language Strand and learn How to Teach the Common Core Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics Standards with…

Selective Implementation of the Common Core
Many district curriculum specialists are simply not providing training and budget allocations for the other Language Strand and Speaking and Listening Strand precisely because they don’t…

Cherry Picking the Common Core
Teachers can implement the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts & Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects as they are designed--each part…

Progressive Skills Review
The Progressive Skills Review is the addendum to the Common Core Language Strand.

Latin Abbreviations for Time
Today we are studying Latin Abbreviations for Time.

Proper Nouns
Today we are studying Proper Nouns.