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Tag: Language Conventions
Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 Vocabulary Programs
Check out the Common Core Vocabulary Toolkits for grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8. These full-year vocabulary programs have been designed for in-class and distance…
Three Types of Conjunctions
“Conjunction junction, what’s your function?” A clever rhyme, but the rest of the lyric provides little help to answer the question. Here’s the answer with some memory…
Prescriptivism and Descriptivism
Prescriptivism and descriptivism are contrasting approaches to grammar and usage, particularly to how they are taught. Both are concerned with the state of a language — descriptivism with how…
Academic Word List
Wouldn't it be great if we had an instructional scope and sequence of the Academic Word List by grade level? Get the Academic Word List, divided…
Don’t Teach Grammar Mini-Lessons
Don't teach grammar mini-lessons for two reasons: this instructional methodology is implicit and ineffective.
Mechanics Quiz for Teachers
See how much you know about mechanics (punctuation, capitalization, spelling, etc.) by taking the 10 Question Mechanics Quiz for Teachers. Don't worry; I’ll dispense with the…
Grammar Quiz for Teachers
Find out what you know and don't know about grammar. Take the Grammar Quiz for Teachers. Each grammatical term is used in the Common Core Anchor…
Grammar | Teaching in the Social Context
Literacy centers provide an ideal social context for cooperative learning about grammar: parts of speech, syntax and sentence structure, standard and non-standard usage, word choice, dialect,…