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Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
by Brock Haussamen, Amy Benjamin, Martha Kolln and Rebecca S. Wheeler
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| Grades | K – 12 |
| Type | Book |
| Pages | 121 |
| Published | October 2003 |
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Description |
NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar provides this much-needed resource for K-college teachers who wonder what to do about grammar-how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught.
Haussamen, Brock, et al. 2003. Grammar Alive! A Guide for Teachers. Urbana, IL: NCTE.
Grades 3 – 5 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Playing with Prepositions through Poetry
Students play with and explore prepositions during a whole group reading of Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask, and then by composing and publishing prepositional poems based on the book's style.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Unit
Using published writers' texts and students' own writing, this unit explores emotions that are associated with the artful and deliberate use of commas, semicolons, colons, and exclamation points (end-stop marks of punctuation).
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Minilesson
Students explore how active and passive voices are appropriate to different audiences. They examine online resources, and then draw conclusions about verb use, which they apply to their own writing.
Grades 9 – 12 | Lesson Plan | Minilesson
What's My Subject? A Subject-Verb Agreement Minilesson
Students explore subject–verb agreement using real-life examples and then talk about the difference between formal and informal language and how to use this important grammatical rule.
Grades 6 – 8 | Lesson Plan | Standard Lesson
Polishing Preposition Skills through Poetry and Publication
Students deepen and refine their understanding of prepositions by reading Ruth Heller's Behind the Mask. They write preposition poetry and create a study guide using an online tool.
