Do you know what a suffix is, or how to distinguish adjectives from adverbs? If you have a six or seven-year-old, the chances are they do. Or at least, the UK government now says they should – by the ...
The course – Advanced Grammar for English Teachers, is divided into four modules. Each lesson is subdivided into bite size learning blocks which include reflective tasks, podcasts and an end of lesson ...
In this resource, we explore how grammar can be taught rhetorically where the focus is on the learner understanding the writing situation, making effective choices while constructing sentences, ...
Donna Fisher, resource teacher for English language arts for the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area, has been creating rap songs — about 200 — for the past 20 years as a tool to teach middle schoolers.
In 1985, the National Council of Teachers of English, an organization that certainly did not foresee a future of blogs, social media, hot takes and hastily dashed-off tweets, emails and texts, issued ...
Erica Bexley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...
A little over a year ago, Jeni Peake noticed her students at The Cambridge School in Lisbon, Portugal, seemed tired of the standard grammar exercises. And it didn't seem to be a consequence of ...
These days, the first lesson of high school Latin is often to answer the question: why Latin? The language peaked in the era of Roman gladiators and slowly faded throughout the Middle Ages. Today, 800 ...
Grammar experts say English teachers will struggle to teach the subject when a new curriculum is rolled out in schools next year unless they are given refresher training, as most were never taught it ...
The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.