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Practices in Teaching Grammar Questions and Answers about Grammar Image Grammar Lessons and Resources "Grammar RX": Resources for Diagnosing Student Issues in Student Writing Eats, Shoots, and Leaves: Teacherly Reviews Final Academic Projects: An Anthology of Teaching Grammar Resources for Other Grammar-Freaks (besides us...) English 574 Course Materials |
One of the primary
goals of
the course and the resulting website, is to teach other teachers that
grammar instruction can and should be used as a 'tool' to teach
students techniques that make them better writers in multiple contexts.
One of the best current examples of this type of instruction can be
found in Harry Noden's Image
Grammar:
Using Grammatical Structures to Teach Writing text. Using his
work as an inspiration, small groups of
class members
led our class through lessons on grammar, Image Grammar-style, each week.
They also produced teacher-guides for other teachers.
In our opinion, Image Grammar is one of the best practical guides to using grammar as a rhetorical tool for our students. We highly recommend it for teachers and future teachers. Below are the links to purchase the text: at Amazon.com and Heinemann.com Introduction
to the "Brush-Strokes"
This handout gives teachers an overview of the key concepts of the 'brush-strokes' grammatical techniques of Noden's text. Jonathan Bush Lesson From Chapter 2: Word Combinations and Mood Writing Mood Word examples: Positive Mood | Negative Mood Marc Van Soest, Ellen Waisanen, and Jan Miller Lesson from Chapter 3: Parallel Structure Models (Poems) Brandy Stone, Candace Blankenship, Amanda O'Neil Lesson from Chapter 4: Painting from a Family Photo & Teaching Voice: Overview and Lesson Plan | Model including: advanced 'Brush-Strokes & basic 'Brush-Strokes' handouts, Valerie Mickley, Cristin Davis, Melanie Yard Lesson from Chapter 5: The Grammar-Meaning Connection Alison Pushie, Emily Hallman, Paula Fox Lesson from Chapter 6: Toward a Grammar of Passages Amanda Martin, Bryce Cameron Lesson from Chapter 7: Story Grammar and Senses Andrea Gottschalk, Mike Murray, Stacey Huisingh Lesson from Chapter 8: Writing Introductory Leads | Exercise Latoya Hilliard, Rachel Bennett, Elizabeth Hull Lesson from Chapter 9: "A Teacher's Guide to Student Revision" Jaclyn Shurmack, Laurel Powell, Lauren Haapala |