Wondering how to sequence grammar instruction? You'll want this list that scaffolds grammar lessons so that one skill builds upon the next.

Help your middle school students succeed on standardized tests by using a different approach to teaching grammar. By teaching the Five Levels of Grammar simultaneously, your students' grammar and proofreading skills will improve! Their confidence and writing will improve, too!

Middle school students never seem to remember the basic parts of speech: nouns, verbs, adjectives, prepositions! Here is why it's worth your time as an English teacher to reteach those grammar concepts AND what you can do to make sure they learn them for real this year. #teaching #middleschool

Teaching grammar can be a little monotonous and it can be a tedious concept to teach in middle school, but engaging lessons for grammar exist!

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Middle school language arts grammar lessons often include a review of the eight parts of speech. Study the parts of speech with hands-on grammar coloring activities, grammar task cards, grammar post it notes, and other alternatives to the grammar worksheet. Make parts of speech grammar lessons memorable for middle school English classes.

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Using mentor sentences for grammar instruction is one way to help your middle school learners understand the correct way to speak and write. Mentor sentences or properly written, model sentences are the best tools for teaching parts of speech. Here are some ways to teach parts of speech with mentor sentences. Label the parts of ... Read more

Are you looking for engaging grammar ideas and activities and practice for your middle school English Language Arts students? Check out this blog post.

Alright, teacher friends. I'm showing my cards with my most recent blog post and spilling the beans about why I strongly believe our middle school ELA students still need grammar instruction. Click on the link to read my story about my journey from teaching first to third to sixth grade, and what I learned through completely ignoring grammar and also explicitly teaching grammar.