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Wednesday, December 10

Can I get your opinion on something? I have a new grammar-teaching book coming up and I want to know if you like this title: Please Don't Teach Grammar with Worksheets!

Other possibility under consideration:
Teaching Grammar with Visuals and Manipulatives

Take another look at sentence diagramming! (For some, this may be your first look!). Some people love it--they say it clarifies the elements of grammar. Others hate it-- they say it is confusing and a waste of time. What do you think? Have you ever tried diagramming sentences with your students? Do you think you might venture there?
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Monday

I think the easiest way to post is click on the comments, where it states the number of comments for a given post, and then fill in the dialog box that comes up alongside the comments.

Karalee, tell us more about your lesson and how you used grammatical terminology in it to get the students to use the sentence template.

Sunday:
As you think about the upcoming week, I hope you will try out at least one little grammar idea.
Let us know your plans and questions. I'm hoping that we can establish some interactions on this blog that will take advantage of our collective experience.

Welcome Message

Hello and welcome to our grammar class blog! I really enjoyed working with you today, and I hope you came away with useful ideas for teaching grammar in the context of the other language arts.

Have you had a chance to glance at the book yet?

Please use our new blogosphere to ask questions, make observations, request information about teaching grammar using linguistic principles.

Let's start by just chatting a bit about what we learned today and how we think we might use it.