Vignette: Language about Language: A Middle School Grammar Class
ix
Introduction
xi
I. Grammar in the Classroom
Three Goals for Teaching Grammar
3
(7)
Discovering Grammar
10
(13)
Vignette: Flossie and the Fox: Code-Switching between the Languages of Home and School
14
(6)
Vignette: Helping High School Juniors Get Comfortable with Shakespeare's English
20
(3)
Teaching the Language of Grammar
23
(14)
Vignette: Teaching the Passive Voice
29
(2)
Vignette: Teaching Pronouns with LEGOs
31
(2)
Vignette: Teaching the Absolute Phrase
33
(1)
Vignette: Subject-Verb Agreement: Slicing the Apple
34
(3)
Flexing the Students' Sentence Sense
37
(13)
Vignette: Grammatical Choices, Sentence Boundaries, and Rhetorical Effects
38
(4)
Vignette: Sentence Imitation
42
(5)
Vignette: Teaching English Language Learners the Known-New Pattern
47
(3)
Non-Native Speakers in the English Classroom
50
(21)
Vignette: Teaching English Language Learners in Elementary Grades
61
(3)
Vignette: Helping a Ninth-Grade Student Use the
64
(7)
II. On Grammar
Grammar Superstitions: The Never-Never Rules
71
(4)
Diagramming Sentences
75
(5)
An Overview of Linguistic Grammar
80
(15)
Conclusion
95
(2)
A Grammar Glossary
97
(12)
Sources and Resources
109
(4)
Index
113
(6)
Author and Contributors
119
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