The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...
A teacher in California who identifies as “cringey” is going viral after claiming she does not teach grammar usage and writing skills in an attempt to defeat white supremacy. Marta Shaffer teaches ...
Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.
In May, I asked how teachers can address frequent student grammatical mistakes. The response to that post generated a number of great suggestions. But no response went so far as musician-comedian ...
Teaching grammar was always a challenge for me. The holy grail of instruction models for many fellow ELA teachers in the TFA DC Region cohort was "multisensory grammar," a creative approach to ...
ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE is not, as the saying goes, the same thing as evidence of absence. But if you continue looking for something intently, and keep failing to find it, you can be forgiven for starting ...
Children write more these days than ever before, thanks to texting, Facebook, Tumblr, and whatever else they’re using that we haven’t even heard of yet. iCorrect is an add-on for Apple’s iMessage app ...