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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.
Don’t Teach Grammar Mini-Lessons
Don't teach grammar mini-lessons for two reasons: this instructional methodology is implicit and ineffective.
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…
Knowledge of Language | Anchor Standards for Language
The key word in the Knowledge of Language Standard is apply. The somewhat ambiguous term, language, refers to the other five Standards in the Language Strand which encompass…
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,…
How to Teach Writing Skills
Two time-proven solutions to these problems take little time, but do necessitate some instruction and practice: sentence revisions and literary response.
Grammar Programs
Teachers frequently ask which grammar program will best meet the needs of their students. Check out these assessment-based, Common Core-aligned programs in these instructional formats: traditional,…
Latin Abbreviations for Time
Today we are studying Latin Abbreviations for Time.