In this resource, we explore how grammar can be taught rhetorically where the focus is on the learner understanding the writing situation, making effective choices while constructing sentences, ...

Grammar instruction may have waned in some classrooms starting in the early 2000s, largely because the high-stakes tests required by the No Child Left Behind law didn’t assess grammar specifically.

ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE is not, as the saying goes, the same thing as evidence of absence. But if you continue looking for something intently, and keep failing to find it, you can be forgiven for starting ...

First, a grammar quiz. Which of these sentences do you think begins the Eric Carle classic, The Very Hungry Caterpillar? a) A little egg lay on a leaf in the light of the moon. b) On a leaf, in the ...

Donna Fisher, resource teacher for English language arts for the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area, has been creating rap songs — about 200 — for the past 20 years as a tool to teach middle schoolers.

PARKLAND, Wash. — A first-grade teacher in Pierce County has been called the "GOAT" by students and parents. Now, whether she's the Greatest of all Time is yet to be determined, but she is teaching ...

When it comes to sentence structure, Rocky, a sea lion, was a stickler. "It really mattered to her, what's going to be the direct and indirect object," says Kathy Streeter, an animal trainer. For ...