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Grammar Interactive Notebook Checklist
Teacher-authors have made significant revisions to the interactive notebook style of instruction for grammar. Here’s a checklist of what to look for in your first grammar…
Teaching Grammar and Mechanics Interactive Notebook
The Teaching Grammar and Mechanics Interactive Notebook Grades 4−8 programs will help your students master each of the Common Core grade-level grammar and mechanics Standards. This…
10 Reasons to Use Interactive Notebooks
Interactive notebooks (INBs) are increasingly popular in all subject areas: math, science, reading, language arts, social studies/history, foreign language study, and art. Before jumping on the…
How to Teach Complex Sentences
The complex sentence is aptly named. Understanding, recognizing, and producing complex sentences require a substantial amount of prior knowledge and experience in reading, writing, listening, and…
Verbing: Making Nouns into Verbs
Donald Trump does it all the time. Twitter has taught the more verbose of us how to keep it short. In fact, all social media has…
Verbals
No wonder grammar and usage befuddles both teachers and students. Just when students think they finally have mastered the definitions and identifications of the basic parts…
Mechanics Scope and Sequence
Defining a specific year-to-year instructional scope and sequence (the Common Core Standards are far too generic) with colleagues provides a game plan and also defines the…
Grammar Scope and Sequence
Defining a specific year-to-year instructional scope and sequence (the Common Core Standards are far too generic) with colleagues provides a game plan and also defines the…