Engaging, explicit lessons using mini-excerpts from books and students’ writing show you how to teach grammar strategically. Zero in on the common grammar glitches, and model for students how to use nouns, verbs, and adjectives effectively, catch mismatched pronoun references; make prose lively with clauses and phrases, use the active voice, and more. From learning the parts of speech to the skill of paragraphing, this book covers it, and gives you what you need to teach grammar in the context of reading and writing. For use with Grades 4-8.
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Author, teacher, coach, and speaker, LAURA ROBB has completed 43 years of teaching in grades 4-8. She presently coaches teachers in reading/ writing workshop at Powhatan School in Virginia and coaches teachers in grades K-8 in Staunton, Virginia, Long Island, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and West Nyack, New York.
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Laura Robb has Done It Again! Rave Reviews for Grammer Lessons & Strategies,
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This review is from: Grammar Lessons and Strategies That Strengthen Students¹ Writing (Grades 4-8) (Paperback)
Robb has totally changed the way grammar is taught with this book. Instead of giving students worksheets that research and teaching experience clearly shows doesn't work, Robb shows teachers how to help students understand how strong verbs, specific nouns, and subordinating conjunctions can improve their writing. The key, though, is to have students revise THEIR writing using these excellent principles. Finally, something practical and thought-provoking that works!
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Not enough!,
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This review is from: Grammar Lessons and Strategies That Strengthen Students¹ Writing (Grades 4-8) (Paperback)
I was hoping to find a book that would aid me in teching grammar in my 6th grade classroom. Instead, I found a book that was not user friendly and did not offer many reproducible pages. Many of these lessons were not exciting and I did not feel that my students would have been excitied to learn about any of the concepts covered using the prescribed lessons. I was even bored reading it! This book is now collecting dust on my bookshelf.
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This book changed my thinking about grammar and teaching it!,
This review is from: Grammar Lessons and Strategies That Strengthen Students¹ Writing (Grades 4-8) (Paperback)
This wonderful book definitely changed my way of thinking, all for the best reasons. Robb clearly shows that the only way to teach grammar is to choose those parts of speech that clearly support writing: teach strong verbs and specific nouns; teach prepositional phrases to vary sentence beginnings and add details to short, general sentences. Robb shows how to involve students in thinking about grammar this way and also points out the students' improvement when they apply these grammar understandings to their own writing. I said farewell to worksheets long ago, for I realized there was no transfer to students' writing. I'm on board and enjoying teaching grammar with this book as my guide!
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Actor Kenneth Branagh once said, "The more words one has, the more one begins to understand." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
worm from the can, editing guidelines, editing symbols, sentence openings, large chart paper, specific nouns, strong verbs, strategy lessons, participial phrase, peer editing, general nouns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Revision Tips, Get Students Involved, After Examples, Idea Box, Name of Author, Name of Peer Editor, Cross Junction, Jacob Have, The Giver New!
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Actor Kenneth Branagh once said, "The more words one has, the more one begins to understand." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
worm from the can, editing guidelines, editing symbols, sentence openings, large chart paper, specific nouns, strong verbs, strategy lessons, participial phrase, peer editing, general nouns Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Revision Tips, Get Students Involved, After Examples, Idea Box, Name of Author, Name of Peer Editor, Cross Junction, Jacob Have, The Giver New!
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- Soul Looks Back in Wonder by Various on page 116, and page 117
- Lincoln: A Photobiography (Houghton Mifflin social studies) by Russell Freedman on page 116, and page 126
- Bound for Oregon by Jean Van Leeuwen on page 117, and page 128
- True North by Kathryn Lasky on page 58, and page 116
- Owl Moon by Jane Yolen on page 66, and page 117
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