Little Bit of Grammar Help Here, Please?
My wife is moving into a new position next year at a new school. Since it is a private school, they have no "adopted" grammar curriculum, although they expect the teacher to have it. She has been using Atwell's material this year with her middle school students, but she will be adding freshmen and sophomore classes next year.
Can you give me your suggestions for resources for her to teach grammar to the high school students? While she has every intention of teaching grammar in context, she still needs a guide to go by for this new level for her. It is going to be an uphilll battle for her with this new position. We kind of figured that out when she both the teacher she is replacing and the upper level English teacher gave her a "Huh?" look and a shrug when she mentioned that she uses writer's workshop and Nancie Atwell to guide her writing curriculum. Oy. Can anyone say, "We found the five paragraph essay motherload?"
So please, give me some input to help her out. She needs the material to work on over the summer to get ready.
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Can you give me your suggestions for resources for her to teach grammar to the high school students? While she has every intention of teaching grammar in context, she still needs a guide to go by for this new level for her. It is going to be an uphilll battle for her with this new position. We kind of figured that out when she both the teacher she is replacing and the upper level English teacher gave her a "Huh?" look and a shrug when she mentioned that she uses writer's workshop and Nancie Atwell to guide her writing curriculum. Oy. Can anyone say, "We found the five paragraph essay motherload?"
So please, give me some input to help her out. She needs the material to work on over the summer to get ready.
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posted by Scott S. Floyd @ 5/15/2007 07:21:00 PM
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At 5/16/2007 10:10 AM,
Jeannine Hirtle said…
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Getting Grammar: 150 New Ways to Teach an Old Subject
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Mary Ehrenworth, Vicki Vinton
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With Teaching Grammar in Context, thousands of teachers discovered why students achieve better results when they learn grammar during the process of writing. In Lessons to Share, Connie Weaver's promised sequel, she focuses on the practical, offering valuable "lessons" from educators at all levels. The first section of the book addresses the learning and teaching of grammar, setting the stage for subsequent sections. The purpose behind the article on how language is...
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Ray Wallace, Susan M. Hunter
Pub Date: 1/9/1995
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Grammar for Middle School: A Sentence-Composing Approach--A Student Worktext
Don Killgallon, Jenny Killgallon
Pub Date: 9/5/2006
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Constance Weaver
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At 5/17/2007 5:51 PM,
Scott S. Floyd said…
Thank you. I was all over the Heinemann site looking through the Atwell stuff and others. I have no idea how I missed it. Thanks. I will check it out. I think the biggest opportunity here is to show them a better way to teach writing. The down side is that they had 20% of their seniors get accepted as National Merit Scholars. So they see no need to fix what isn't broken.
At 5/18/2007 2:20 PM,
Jeannine Hirtle said…
That is a phenomenal number of national merit finalists. Goodness!
If they are that good without writing as a process, what would they be like with it????
Hey I posted some new grammar texts from NCTE on our site.
At 5/18/2007 3:40 PM,
Scott S. Floyd said…
That is why we put our son there. They have a great program lined up for the kids K-12. They still have some areas to work on, but they are headed in the right direction.
Thanks again.
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