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Blog posts pertaining to grammar in the high school English classroom.

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentence Examples For High School
Grammar ► March 21, 2025

Simple, Compound, and Complex Sentence Examples For High School

Teaching sentence variety can be so frustrating! But we teachers know that if our students could just master them, they would master so much more: clauses, sentence structure, and sentence variety. If you don’t feel...

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Teaching Apostrophes in the High School Classroom Made Simple
Grammar ► March 16, 2025

Teaching Apostrophes in the High School Classroom Made Simple

Apostrophes may be small punctuation marks, but they often cause big confusion for students. Whether it’s knowing where to place them in possessive nouns or how to use them in contractions, teaching apostrophes can feel...

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How to Create a Semicolon Lesson for High School
Grammar ► March 9, 2025

How to Create a Semicolon Lesson for High School

Mastering semicolon use can help students write smoother, more sophisticated sentences. But before you dive into a full semicolon lesson, you need to ensure your students are ready.  In this post, I’ll break down why teaching semicolons...

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How to Teach Verbals Effectively in High School Grammar
Grammar ► March 2, 2025

How to Teach Verbals Effectively in High School Grammar

Verbals—gerunds, participles, and infinitives—are essential grammar concepts that can deepen students’ understanding of sentence structure. Not knowing them can lead to some major mistakes for students down the road. However, many teachers find it challenging...

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How To Teach Sentence Structure In High School
Grammar ► February 2, 2025

How To Teach Sentence Structure In High School

Student writing a little boring? Sentences super short? Or maybe your students aren’t even technically writing sentences at all! You can solve all of these problems! In this post, I’m going to share how to...

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How To Teach Clauses to High Schoolers
Grammar ► January 5, 2025

How To Teach Clauses to High Schoolers

When I became a high school teacher, I was SHOCKED at how many of my students wrote incomplete sentences. It took years for me to figure out the answer to this problem: teach clauses. Teaching...

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How To Teach Punctuation To High Schoolers
Grammar ► December 8, 2024

How To Teach Punctuation To High Schoolers

You’ve just read your students’ first essays of the year, and you’re horrified. You expected some comma errors, but those papers are downright unreadable! Where do you go from here? In this post, I’m going...

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Boost Your Classroom with These Proven Teaching Grammar Strategies
Grammar ► September 15, 2024

Boost Your Classroom with These Proven Teaching Grammar Strategies

Grammar is the backbone of clear and effective communication, yet we English teachers often shy away from teaching it. It’s daunting! If you’re a high school English teacher, you know the struggle of making grammar...

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Why You Need To Teach Grammar
Grammar ► September 1, 2024

Why You Need To Teach Grammar

As high school English teachers, we know that grammar can be a challenging subject to teach—and for students, it can often seem tedious or irrelevant. However, teaching grammar is not just about enforcing rules. It’s...

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5 Myths About Teaching Grammar You Can Forget Now
Grammar ► March 20, 2022

5 Myths About Teaching Grammar You Can Forget Now

In this post, I hope to dispel some common misconceptions about teaching grammar.

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