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Tag: Teaching Grammar and Mechanics
ELA Language Anchor Standards | Curriculum Maps
Download these FREE full-year ELA Language Anchor Standards | Curriculum Maps for 4th grade, 5th grade, 6th grade, 7th grade, and 8th grade.
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…
Simple Sentence Diagramming
Simple sentence diagrams help students focus on one grammatical element without all the time-consuming drawing.
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…
Squinting Modifiers
Many ELA teachers have never heard of squinting modifiers. Teaching your students to identify the differences among modifiers will equip your students with specific revision strategies…
Dangling Modifiers
Dangling modifiers are provide challenges for developing writers. Following is a great lesson on how to identify and fix dangling modifiers.
Misplaced Modifiers
Misplaced modifiers are frequent challenges for developing writers. Following is a great lesson on how to identify and fix misplaced modifiers.
When to Use Well and Good
All well and good? Well, perhaps not all of President Trump’s tweets include good grammar, mechanics, spelling, and proper word choice. Let’s take a look at…