Grammarama!

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By Les Parsons

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Grammarama! by Les Parsons is an essential resource for educators navigating the debate over formal grammar instruction. It offers practical strategies and engaging exercises to help students master grammar and language usage through fun activities, sentence-combining challenges, and examples drawn from professional writing. The book also covers evolving grammar rules, classroom terminology, and includes a comprehensive glossary for easy reference.

Teachers receive detailed guidelines for each activity, including background information, learning outcomes, introduction methods, and answer keys, along with suggestions for group work and assessments. This guide empowers educators to foster lasting, meaningful connections with language in their students.
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This book is well suited for teachers and educators seeking effective, practical tools to teach grammar in the classroom. It is especially valuable for those interested in incorporating creative and evolving aspects of language into their teaching practice.

Whether or not to teach formal grammar in the classroom is a hot topic. Teachers need help in making sense of the issues.

Description

Whether or not to teach formal grammar in the classroom is a hot topic. Teachers need help in making sense of the issues. Grammarama! offers a powerful classroom context and practical strategies for helping students cope with all aspects of grammar and language usage. It provides:

Discussion of the pros and cons of teaching grammar; exercises that involve students using grammar in fun ways; sentence-combining challenges that strengthen student language usage; examples and activities based on professional writing; creative expressions of grammar usage and how to incorporate them in your teaching; up-to-date details on how grammar and language evolves—from particular word usage to changing grammar rules to appropriate terminology for the classroom; a comprehensive glossary that offers capsule definitions of essential terms.

All student activities are accompanied by detailed teacher guidelines that provide background, outcomes, ways of introducing the activities, and an answer key. Suggestions for group work and assessment complement this valuable classroom tool.

Language is constantly changing. This remarkable resource shows you how students can make powerful connections with language that last a lifetime.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781551381718

Publisher: Pembroke Publishing Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 August 2004

Country: Canada

Imprint: Pembroke Publishing Ltd

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Weight: 280g

Pages: 112

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Children’s & Teenage Non-Fiction Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Les Parsons Non-Fiction

About the Author

Les Parsons has taught English and literacy for more than 30 years. As an English consultant, workshop leader, and university lecturer, he has worked with classroom teachers at all levels.