Daily Grammar

Strategies

for Effective Teaching of

Grammar

8 Do's and Don'ts for Effective Grammar Instruction

●Use authentic writing situations every day.

●Make learning visible with anchor charts and student work around grammar concepts.

●Provide students with multiple exposures to a variety of grammatical situations.

●Have students create nonlinguistic representations of grammatical situations (for
example, images, gestures, picture stories).

●Use engaging and relevant writing situations to engage students in grammatical
exercises.

●Encourage students to read a variety of nonfiction, informational, and fiction texts to
expose them to multiple texts and a variety of writing situations.

●Harness the power of digital tools for practice and review.

●Directly teach and model each grammar concept; use your writing and think-aloud to
model grammar instruction.

8 things to avoid

●Let time constraints be a reason to avoid grammar instruction;
instead, find short periods during the day to ask grammar questions or

oral “grammar quizzes” while waiting in line.

●Assess every single grammatical choice a student makes;

instead, use a variety of assessment measures to support student

learning.

●Have students complete only grammar worksheets without purpose
for practice.

●Teach too many skills at one time;

instead, go deep with a few skills and concepts.

8 things to avoid

●Learn skills and abandon them;

instead, continue to reinforce skills and concepts throughout the year.

●Arbitrarily assign sets of grammatical skills to learn;

instead, attach each concept to a purpose for writing.

●Forget the power of a print-rich environment.

Instead, remember that classroom libraries, books, read-aloud, and
discussion allow students a variety of contexts in which to hear different
sentence constructions.

●Become overwhelmed by the number of grammar skills students need to
know;

instead, use the Common Core State Standards to guide what students
need to know at each grade level.

Approaches to grammar teaching

Explanations

Examples

Exercises

Supplementing the coursebook

Carry-over

GRAMMAR

review

motivating

forgive

accommodate
makegrammar fun

assessment

relevant

Different Methods of Teaching Grammar

Diagramming Sentences
Learning Through Writing

Inductive Teaching
Deductive Teaching
Interactive Teaching

Effective (Yet Easy) Ways to Teach Grammar in Your Classroom

1–Part of Speech

Detectives: A Fun Grammar

Activity

2–Daily Grammar Strips: An

Idea for Consistent

Grammar Practice

3–Task Cards (With a Twist):

More Fun Grammar Practice

4–Find the Teacher’s

Mistake: Grammar

Collaboration Activity
5–Using Technology for

Grammar Engagement: An

Easy Way to Teach

Grammar

6–Pause for Mini Grammar

Lessons During

Read-Alouds

The English Verb

Oxana Golubovschi,

PhD, Associate Professor

DAY III

Master ALL TENSES in 30 Minutes: Verb

Tenses Chart with Useful Rules & Examples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQG_gYFePD4&feature=youtu.be

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EUq
VFchvrc1iaH51HAl-fXH_3KC5PwaItNoh
-pfz8lY/edit?usp=sharing

TEAM I

https://docs.google.com/document/d/
1Ne6YqhMyr7e3WO6XjYcCv7fUebEHi4
XUjMoxGmUdSXQ/edit?usp=sharing

TEAM II

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pw
uSs2mvAoVxxM3NNuDO2fDv-ymQymRUlV
e3gMVB30o/edit?usp=sharing

TEAM III.

THE PASSIVE

VOICE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6pHfjH0Efg&feature=youtu.be

https://simplifyconcept.com/active-pa
ssive-voice-examples-complete-guide/

theory

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5a
f909fe4cf83d001acd5233/passive
-voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB
kVp8-CDeo

HOW TO USE KAHOOT

5.The Modal
Verbs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v
=Nk9nQwoCFig&feature=youtu.be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skqj4jOSQ
U4&feature=youtu.be

https://quizizz.com/admin/quiz/5c576ee71
d8cd5001b8af60a/modal-verbs

TEST 1.

https://forms.gle/WR1HmKAyJrQ2VXR7A