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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…
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…
Interactive Notebooks Assessment-based Individualized Instruction
A number of years ago I decided to experiment with teaching interactive grammar notebooks to my seventh grade ELA students. Like many secondary ELA teachers, I,…
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…