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Tag: daily oral language
How and When to Teach Pronouns
Why can’t students retain what they have learned about pronouns? Is it bad teaching? Is it the nature of grammatical instruction? How can we change the…
How and When to Teach Nouns
But why do teachers have to re-teach nouns every year? Is it the previous teacher’s fault? Is it the cyclical nature of instruction? Is it something…
How to Teach Essay Strategies
Coaching writing, especially essay strategies, is a lot like coaching football. We are all product-centered. We need to have the culminating event in mind, be it…
Grammar Instruction: Establishing Common Ground
Perhaps no instructional issue in English-language arts produces more contentious debate than the issue of how best to teach grammar. All too often we bog down…
How to Teach a Science of Writing Program
Teachers interested in writing research want to teach according to the Science of Writing. No one wants to throw away explicit grammar, spelling, and writing strategies…
How to Teach Grammar
Within the field of English-language arts, there is probably no more contentious curricular issue than that of how to teach grammar. The “Reading Wars” and “Writing…
Why We Don’t Teach Grammar
Teachers deemphasize grammar instruction for six key reasons. Learn these reasons and re-prioritize your instruction to include teaching grammar in the context of meaningful writing.
The Great Grammar Debate
The Great Grammar Debate between those favoring part to whole and those favoring whole to part grammar instruction is still relevant.