Essential Grammar For Today S Writers Students And Teachers

Author : Nancy M. Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781317513643

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Essential Grammar for Today's Writers, Students, and Teachers by Nancy M. Sullivan Pdf

This innovative grammar text is an ideal resource for writers, language students, and current and future classroom teachers who need an accessible "refresher" in a step-by-step guide to essential grammar. Rather than becoming mired in overly detailed linguistic definitions, Nancy Sullivan helps writers and students understand and apply grammatical concepts and develop the skills they need to enhance their own writing. Along with engaging discussions of both contemporary and traditional terminology, Sullivan's text provides clear explanations of the basics of English grammar and a highly practical, hands-on approach to mastering the use of language. Complementing the focus on constructing excellent sentences, every example and exercise set is contextually grounded in language themes. Teachers, students, and writers will appreciate the streamlined, easy-to-understand coverage of essential grammar, as well as the affordable price. This is an ideal textbook for future teachers enrolled in an upper-level grammar course yet is also suitable for any writing course across disciplines where grammatical precision is important. Instructor materials accompanying the text provide teachers with activities designed for face-to-face, hybrid, and online instruction to enliven these basic grammar lessons as well as writing activities to integrate these concepts into students' own writing.

Author : Nancy M. Sullivan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : English language
ISBN : 0367148668

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Essential Grammar for Today's Writers, Students, and Teachers by Nancy M. Sullivan Pdf

"This innovative grammar text is an ideal resource for writers, language students, and current and future classroom teachers who need an accessible "refresher" in a step-by-step guide to essential grammar. Rather than becoming mired in overly detailed linguistic definitions, Nancy Sullivan helps writers and students understand and apply grammatical concepts and develop the skills they need to enhance their own writing. Along with engaging discussions of both contemporary and traditional terminology, Sullivan's text provides clear explanations of the basics of English grammar and a highly practical, hands-on approach to mastering the use of language. Complementing the focus on constructing excellent sentences, every example and exercise set is contextually grounded in language themes. This updated edition features two new sections as well as a Companion Website with additional exercises, relevant links, and answer key. Teachers, students, and writers will appreciate the streamlined, easy-to-understand coverage of essential grammar, as well as the affordable price. This is an ideal textbook for future teachers enrolled in an upper-level grammar course yet is also suitable for any writing course across disciplines where grammatical precision is important. Instructor materials accompanying the text provide teachers with activities designed for face-to-face, hybrid, and online instruction to enliven these basic grammar lessons as well as writing activities to integrate these concepts into students' own writing"--

Author : Jennifer Webb,Marcello Giovanelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000888423

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Essential Grammar by Jennifer Webb,Marcello Giovanelli Pdf

What is grammar? Why is it so central to the teaching of English? How can we teach it with confidence in secondary schools? Essential Grammar will provide clarity, meaning and teacher expertise to this much debated area of the English curriculum. By exploring grammar as applied to literary analysis and using a range of examples from commonly-taught and popular texts, this highly accessible book provides an extensive overview of how to use grammar to enhance the teaching of academic and creative writing. Drawing on a range of resources, best-selling authors Webb and Giovanelli: discuss the context of grammar teaching in schools provide a clear overview of concepts and terminology for the teacher offer a wide range of examples of how grammar can be applied to the analysis of texts and the development of students’ writing debunk the unhelpful view of grammar as a list of prescriptive rules and limits outline grammatical concepts in a way which is clear and simple to understand provide a huge range of practical ways to ensure that teaching of grammatical concepts can be rigorous and successful for all. This resource, with its grounded and straightforward approach to grammar, will be immediately useable in the classroom with strategies that be used by teachers in their classroom today. For any training and practicing secondary English teachers, Essential Grammar will be a compulsory classroom companion.

Author : Amy Benjamin,Barbara Golub
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317566274

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Infusing Grammar Into the Writer's Workshop by Amy Benjamin,Barbara Golub Pdf

Help your students improve their language skills and become stronger readers and writers. In this timely book, literacy experts Amy Benjamin and Barbara Golub offer best practices for fortifying the writer’s workshop model with meaningful, relevant instruction in grammar. The book answers questions such as... What does a writer’s workshop look like and how does it fit into balanced literacy models? How does grammar fit into a writer’s workshop? How can you use natural language acquisition to transition children from non-Standard to Standard English patterns? How can you teach students to identify a complete sentence? What are effective ways to teach parts of speech? How can you build on nouns and verbs to teach adjectives, adverbs, prepositional phrases, and dependent clauses? In each chapter, you’ll find out exactly what teaching the targeted concept looks like in a workshop classroom. Examples are provided for different grade levels and can be adapted as necessary to meet your needs. This book is a No-Worksheet Zone. You’ll learnhow to present grammar using authentic text and talk, leading to more durable learning.

Author : Tommy Thomason,Geoff Ward
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781609110956

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Tools, Not Rules by Tommy Thomason,Geoff Ward Pdf

If you want to start an argument in a teachers' lounge, bring up the topic of how best to teach grammar. There is a wide spectrum of opinion. Traditionalists claim that we must explicitly teach grammar. Students drill the basics and diagram sentences. Sometimes their study and drills take the place of writing, but these teachers claim that good writing demands good grammar. At the opposite end of the spectrum are teachers who claim that the best way to learn grammar is to write, thereby being forced to use grammar in writing and editing. They reason that students will learn grammar in the context of actually using it, without all the drills and worksheets. They trust the writing process to instill an appreciation for grammar, instead of actually teaching it. Teachers on the write-to-learn-grammar side claim that students who are only taught grammar rules might pass tests, but since they didn't learn in the context of writing, they typically don't apply the rules when they write. Grammar traditionalists say students in writing classes never learn grammar at all, because it is not explicitly taught. In Tools, Not Rules, authors Tommy Thomason and Geoff Ward take the middle-ground position that grammar should be taught as part of the writing process. Tommy Thomason is a veteran journalist and university journalism professor at TCU. Geoff Ward is a well-known Australian professor and associate dean from James Cook University in Townsville. Both have written several books and work extensively with American teachers. Publisher's website: http: //www.eloquentbooks.com/ ToolsNotRules-TeachingGrammarInTheWritingClassroom.html

Author : Eli Hinkel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-20
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136820335

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Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing by Eli Hinkel Pdf

Effective Curriculum for Teaching L2 Writing sets out a clear big picture for curricular thinking about L2 writing pedagogy and offers a step-by-step guide to curriculum design with practical examples and illustrations. Its main purpose is to help pre-service and practicing teachers design courses for teaching academic writing and to do this as efficiently and effectively as possible. Bringing together the what and the how-to with research-based principles, what sets this book apart is its overarching focus on language pedagogy and language building. Part 1 examines curricular foundations in general and focuses on what is socially valued in L2 writing and pedagogy at school and at the college and university level. Part 2 is concerned with the nitty-gritty̶—the daily realities of curricular design and classroom instruction. Part 3 takes a close look at the key pedagogical ingredients of teaching academic L2 writing: vocabulary and collocations, grammar for academic writing, and down-to-earth techniques for helping L2 writers to organize discourse and ideas. The Appendix provides an extensive checklist for developing curricula for a course or several courses in language teaching.

Author : Raymond Murphy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3125346525

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Basic Grammar in Use by Raymond Murphy Pdf

Author : Nancy Atlee
Publisher : PRUFROCK PRESS INC.
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : English language
ISBN : 9781593630416

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The Absolutely Essential Grammar Guide by Nancy Atlee Pdf

"A reference manual for: capitalization, parts of speech, punctuation, sentences"--Cover.

Author : Carolyn Carter, Ed. D.
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-10
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780595260775

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The Absolute Minimum Any Educator Should Know & Teach Students About the Sentence by Carolyn Carter, Ed. D. Pdf

Teachers need an approach to teaching the sentence that provides students with proficiency in sentence elements and clear understanding of how these work together to create types, purposes, and functions of sentences. They, likewise, need an approach that is effective, that results in students mastering the elements essential to their understanding of English language. More than this, though, they need an instructional approach that will build students' background in text features and increase their conscious awareness of text at its most elemental level, the sentence. Following their understanding of the sentence, students can be branched easily to the paragraph and from there to understanding the whole to part nature of text better. Needed: A Whole School Focus On Sentence Basics Why not a whole school focus on sentence basics? Why not get all the teachers on the same page with respect to the sentence and in so doing, get everyone focused on ONE standard for writing sentences? This text provides the approach that can launch an effective writing to learn or writing across the curriculum approach.

Author : Betty S. Azar,Stacy A. Hagen
Publisher : Pearson Education ESL
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-06
Category : English language
ISBN : 013465658X

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Basic English Grammar by Betty S. Azar,Stacy A. Hagen Pdf

Basic English Grammar is a classic developmental skills text for beginning students of English as a second or foreign language. It uses a grammar-based approach integrated with communicative methodologies to prmote the development of all language skills. While keeping the same basic approach and materials as in earlier edtions, the fourth edition continues to build on the foundation of understanding form and meaning by engaging students in meaningful communication about real actions, real things, and their own lives in classroom context. Several of the new features are: Information in the grammar charts highlighting important differences between spoken and written English; Step-by-step writing activities with models for students to follow; Innovative warm-up exercises that precede the grammar charts and introduce points to be taught; Newly created exercises to give students more incremental grammar practice; Structure-based listening exercises that introduce students to relaxed, reduced speech"--Page 4 of cover.

Author : A. Robert Young,Ann O. Strauch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0521606543

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Nitty Gritty Grammar Student's Book by A. Robert Young,Ann O. Strauch Pdf

Nitty Gritty Grammar, Second Edition, focuses on essential areas of English grammar that cause difficulty for developing writers. Nitty Gritty Grammar, Second Edition focuses on essential areas of English grammar that cause difficulty for developing writers. It guides students through the learning process by exploring grammar in context, providing controlled practice, and giving students thought-provoking writing assignments in which they can practice grammar in a more open-ended format. The grammar points are illustrated in reading passages from a variety of genres, from comic strips to the 9/11 Commission Report. Nitty Gritty Grammar boxes summarize key grammar points and serve as easy reference. Five review sections are included for review and consolidation.

Author : Amy Benjamin,Joan Berger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317926801

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Teaching Grammar by Amy Benjamin,Joan Berger Pdf

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!

Author : Keith Polette
Publisher : Allyn & Bacon
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123257896

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Teaching Grammar Through Writing by Keith Polette Pdf

Written as a springboard to teaching grammar, this book is designed to help teachers of grades 4–8 teach students to use the sixteen essential grammatical elements (seven parts of speech, six phrases, and three clauses) in their writing. Exercises, strategies, and examples provide a guide for the teacher about how students can learn, expand, and transfer the grammar skills acquired to their own writing. The book is organized so that teachers can either pick and choose lessons that are tailored to meet their students' specific needs, or they can teach the material in a clear and effective scope and sequence from beginning to end.. Teachers Rave about Keith Polette’s New Way to Teach Writing! “I like the writing exercises that are incorporated right from the start and the interesting approach to getting students to develop their understanding in their own words. I also would recommend the book to other teachers because it has universal appeal for any teacher trying to improve their own understanding of grammar and writing or who is looking for another good resource for their students.” -Lona Garrison, Gwinnett County Public Schools, GA “I think this book is done very well. Teachers could use this book as a reference tool in the classroom.” -Deedra Murray, Edyth J. Hayes Middle School, KY Take a look inside: Focuses on one grammatical element at a time to assist teachers in building on students' prior knowledge. Addresses such topics as sentence building, combining, and imitation, writer's voice, word play, poetry, editing, and guided or process writing.

Author : Folse,Elena Vestri Solomon,Donna M Tortorella
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2007-10-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1424017475

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Intl Stdt Ed-Top 10 by Folse,Elena Vestri Solomon,Donna M Tortorella Pdf

Top 10 helps students master the essential grammar they need to produce great writing. Text focuses on improving the ten most common grammatical errors novice writers make.

Author : Nigel A Caplan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press ELT
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-04
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472037315

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Grammar Choices for Graduate and Professional Writers, Second Edition by Nigel A Caplan Pdf

Grammar Choices is a different kind of grammar book: It is written for graduate students, including MBA, master’s, and doctoral candidates, as well as postdoctoral researchers and faculty. Additionally, it describes the language of advanced academic writing with more than 300 real examples from successful graduate students and from published texts, including corpora. Each of the eight units in Grammar Choices contains: an overview of the grammar topic; a preview test that allows students to assess their control of the target grammar and teachers to diagnose areas of difficulty; an authentic example of graduate-student writing showing the unit grammar in use; clear descriptions of essential grammar structures using the framework of functional grammar, cutting-edge research in applied linguistics, and corpus studies; vocabulary relevant to the grammar point is introduced—for example, common verbs in the passive voice, summary nouns used with this/these, and irregular plural nouns; authentic examples for every grammar point from corpora and published texts; exercises for every grammar point that help writers develop grammatical awareness and use, including completing sentences, writing, revising, paraphrasing, and editing; and a section inviting writers to investigate discipline-specific language use and apply it to an academic genre. Among the changes in the Second Edition are: new sections on parallel form (Unit 2) and possessives (Unit 5) revised and expanded explanations, but particularly regarding verb complementation, complement noun clauses, passive voice, and stance/engagement a restructured Unit 2 and significantly revised/updated Unit 7 new Grammar Awareness tasks in Units 3, 5, and 6 new exercises plus revision/updating of many others self-editing checklists in the Grammar in Your Discipline sections at the end of each unit representation of additional academic disciplines (e.g., engineering, management) in example sentences and texts and in exercises.