Teaching English through stories is a powerful and effective way to help students learn the language naturally. Instead of ...

Children can be left confused and unable to write accurate sentences because of "uncertain" grammar teaching, experts have warned. But confident teachers can enable students to use their grammar ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Jill Kitson: Welcome to Lingua Franca. This week: Why teach grammar in school? Melbourne University ...

Drilling kids on the rules of grammar doesn’t work, but creative, playful approaches tethered to meaningful writing can make ...

The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

Many students are confused about grammar and sentence structure – so should universities teach it explicitly? Words image from www.shutterstock.com Imagine a student turning up at university and not ...

Teaching grammar was always a challenge for me. The holy grail of instruction models for many fellow ELA teachers in the TFA DC Region cohort was "multisensory grammar," a creative approach to ...

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 ...

Fiction authors are pretty good at writing sentences with striking images, worded just the right way. We might suppose the images are striking because the author has a striking imagination. But the ...