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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About three months ago, a colleague told me that she just spent two hours teaching students the different usages of the English word "as." I then asked her if she thought, after her dedicated efforts, ...

A how-to-teach grammar manual has been written ­because many of the state’s 63,000 primary teachers struggle to teach key literacy. The manual winds back the clock on teacher training to the most ...

When it comes to sentence structure, Rocky, a sea lion, was a stickler. "It really mattered to her, what's going to be the direct and indirect object," says Kathy Streeter, an animal trainer. For ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) First, a grammar quiz. Which of these sentences do you think begins the Eric Carle classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar? a) A little egg lay on a leaf in the light of the ...

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.

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