Teaching Grammar What Really Works 1st Edition by Amy Benjamin, Joan Berger ISBN 1596671386 9781596671386

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ISBN 10: 1596671386 
ISBN 13: 9781596671386
Author: Amy Benjamin, Joan Berger

Instill grammar fundamentals using lessons that stick! In this book, authors Amy Benjamin and Joan Berger share procedures for teaching grammar effectively and dynamically, in ways that appeal to students and teachers alike. Ideal for teachers just beginning their work in grammar instruction, this book includes day-by-day units and reproducibles to help them embed grammar lessons into writing instruction. Using visuals, wordplay, problem solving, and pattern-finding activities, teachers can forgo methods that fail to engage students in grammar. Through a series of activities designed to delve deeper into grammar learning, the authors share strategies that have proven successful during their extensive years of teaching and literacy consulting. Topics include: Using time wisely: Assess for cumulative understanding and development of writing style The “Verb Map”: A visual metaphor of the verb system Teaching parts of speech for effective expression, not just memorization And more!

Teaching Grammar What Really Works 1st Table of contents:

Part I The Fundamental Things Apply
1 Teaching Recognition of Complete Sentences
Addressing the Problem of Fragments
Teaching Procedure
Addressing the Problem of Run-ons
Conclusion
2 Sentence Slots
Pattern 1: Subject + (action) Verb
Teaching Procedure: Observe and Report
Teaching Procedure: Feel the Patterns
Pattern 2: Subject + (action) Verb + Direct Object
Teaching Procedure: Understand Direct Objects
Teaching Procedure: Feel the Pattern
Pattern 3: Subject + (linking) Verb + Subject Complement
Take Your Time: Assess for Understanding, Not Memorization
Conclusion
3 Teaching about Verbs and Adverbs
Dude, Where’s My Verb?
Teaching Procedure: Find the Verb
The “Verb Map”: A Visual Metaphor to Accompany a Detailed Explanation of the English Verb System
Teaching Procedure: Explore the Map
Verb Map: Day One—We Get an Overview of the Two Sides of Town, Action Town and Linking Town
Verb Map: Day Two—We Venture into Action Town
Verb Map: Days Three and Four—We Tour the Two Main Helping Verbs (have and be)
Verb Map: Day Five—We Tour the Other Helping Verbs
Drilling the Irregular Verbs
Verb Map: Day Six — We Tour Transitive and Intransitive Verbs
Teaching About Adverbs
Adverbials as Sentence Commentary
Conclusion
4 Teaching about Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives
Noun Recognition and the Properties of Nouns
Plurals
Teaching Procedure
Possessives
Teaching Procedures
Using a Noun as an Adjective: Understanding Functional Shifting
Teaching Procedure
The Morphology of Nouns
Teaching Procedures
Noun Expansion
Nouns and the Writing Process
Teaching Procedures
Introduction to the Functions of Nominal Groups
Teaching Procedure: Understand Nominal Functions
Teaching about Pronouns
I or Me?
Teaching Procedure: Clarify Your Pronouns
Teaching Procedure: Understand Pronoun Case
Additional Pronoun Problems
Pronouns and Reading Comprehension
Adjective Recognition and the Properties of Adjectives
Teaching Procedure: Understanding Basic Information about Adjectives Using the Owner’s Manual
The Morphology of Adjectives
Adjectives and Usage
Adjectives and the Writing Process
Conclusion
5 Links: Conjunctions and Prepositions
Teaching about Conjunctions: Common Hitching Devices
Columns One and Two: Coordinating and Subordinating Conjunctions
Teaching Procedure: Distinguishing between Phrases and Clauses
Subordinating Conjunctions
Column Three: Conjunctive Adverbs
Column Four: Relative Pronouns
Teaching about Prepositions
Using Patterns to Teach Students to Recognize Prepositions
Teaching Procedure: Using Visuals to Have Students Tell You the Prepositional Phrases
Teaching Procedure: Using Auditory-Rhythmic Patterns to Teach Prepositional Phrases
Teaching Procedure: Classifying Prepositions
They Can Identify Prepositional Phrases: Now What? So What?
Conclusion
Part II Embedding Grammar in Writing Instruction
6 Your Guidebook for Embedding Grammar in Writing Instruction
What’s the Role of the Grammar Calendar?
Which Techniques Support the Grammar Calendar?
What Visuals and Manipulatives Make a Difference?
7 Writing with Compound Sentences That Link Ideas A Five-Day Lesson Series Embedded in the Writing Process
Teaching Procedure
Day One: Introducing Compound Sentences
Day Two: Punctuating Compound Sentences
Day Three: Distinguishing the Roles of and
Day Four: Learning to Use Semicolons
Here Come the Visuals
Day Five: Learning More Coordinating Conjunctions
8 Writing with Adverb Clauses That Show Relationship A Six-Day Lesson Series Embedded in the Writing Process
Teaching Procedure
Day One: Introducing Adverb Clauses
Here Come the Visuals
Let’s Move Them Around
Day Two: Writing with Adverb Clauses
Day Three: Punctuating Adverb Clauses
Day Four: Learning Subordinate Conjunctions
Let’s Move Them Around
Day Five: Sharing Student Writing
Day Six: Increasing Writers’ Terminology and Using Recursive Strategies
9 Writing with Appositives That Enrich Detail A Three-Day Lesson Series Embedded in the Writing Process
Teaching Procedure
Day One: Introducing Appositives
Day Two: Writing and Punctuating Appositives
Day Three: Making Connections to Literature and Moving Appositives
10 Writing with Adjective Clauses That Enrich Detail A Seven-Day Lesson Series Embedded in the Writing Process
Teaching Procedures
Day One: Introducing Adjective Clauses
Day Two: Writing with Adjective Clauses
Day Three: Deconstructing Adjective-Clause Sentences
Day Four: Using Adjective Clauses in a Detective Report
Day Five: Punctuating Adjective Clauses
Day Six: Practicing Multiple Sentence Variations
Day Seven: Using Sentence Variation in the Editing Process
11 Writing with Participial Phrases for Improved Elaboration A Six-Day Lesson Series Embedded in the Writing Process
Teaching Procedure
Day One: Acting Out Participial Phrases
Day Two: Moving Participial Phrases
Day Three: Writing with Participial Phrases
Day Four: Sharing Student Writing
Day Five: Holding Personal Conferences with Students
Day Six: Simplifying Punctuation with Basic Rules
12 Writing with Absolute Phrases That Tighten Description A Four-Day Lesson Series Embedded in the Writing Process
Teaching Procedure
Day One: Learning to Notice Details
Day Two: Introduction of Absolute Phrases
Day Three: A Second Experience Writing Absolut

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