All About Grammar

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"Grammar instruction should be tailor-made to meet the needs of students, and should weave both prescriptive and descriptive practices into relevant, meaningful instruction. Standards and Pre-Assessment Sound instructional practice begins with assessment and planning. Begin building your grammar instruction plan by comparing what students must know with what they already know. "

tips for parents; devlarative vs procedural knowledge

"In determining how much grammar to teach explicitly, how much accuracy to demand, and at what stages and in what contexts, we should take our inspiration from the decisions we make in our private lives: one size does not fit all. Teachers must juggle three important elements: (1) the goal of instruction / time for instruction, (2) the structure of the target language, and (3) the style of the learner. These factors rarely line up neatly, which is why after hundreds of studies and dozens of hypotheses, we're still debating. "

self-correcting

"Having established what students need to know and when, and having developed diagnostic assessments to determine what students do and do not know, the real fun begins. At this point, we are beginning the process of sharing the instructional strategies that seem to best meet the needs of our students. Explicit or implicit instructional strategies? How can we establish benchmarks to formatively assess skill acquisition? How can we differentiate instruction, according to the results of our assessments?"

"Englishpage.com is constructing a grammar book of high-quality English lessons and exercises to help English learners learn English grammar online. Help us by recommending your favorite English grammar sites and resources."

"These OWL resources will help you use correct grammar in your writing. This area includes resources on grammar topics, such as count and noncount nouns, articles (a versus an), subject-verb agreement, and prepositions."

"the Grammar Handbook at the Writers' Workshop, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. This Handbook explains and illustrates the basic grammatical rules concerning parts of speech, phrases, clauses, sentences and sentence elements, and common problems of usage."