Grammar Study: Helping Students Get What Grammar Is and How It Works: Units of Study, Mentor Texts, Curricular Calendars (Theory and Practice) - Softcover

Asking students to memorize the rules of grammar is of limited value; on the other hand, helping them understand the power of grammar from the inside out has the potential to transform their writing?and develop their lifelong love affair with language. A brilliant writer herself, Janet Angellilo shows you how to teach your students all the essential skills they need related to grammar through a deeply engaging inquiry study of grammar. For example, she introduces strategies such as ?mentor sentences” from well-loved literature as a way to teach students the "sense” or ?cadence” of a complete sentence. Janet emphasizes grammar inquiry as the initiation into a literate life fascinated by words. For use with Grades 3-6.

Janet Angelillo is a literacy consultant who works with elementary and middle-school teachers in urban and suburban schools across the United States and Canada. A classroom educator for many years, Janet taught middle school and upper grades in New York City and the suburbs. She is a doctoral student at Columbia University's Teachers College, and the author of several articles on writing as well as A Fresh Approach to Teaching Punctuation and Making Revision Matter (both Scholastic) and Writing About Reading (Heinemann).