Scaffolded High School English Resources
Blog posts pertaining to grammar in the high school English classroom.
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...
Read MoreApostrophes 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...
Read MoreMastering 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...
Read MoreVerbals—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...
Read MoreStudent 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...
Read MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreYou’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...
Read MoreGrammar 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...
Read MoreAs 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...
Read MoreIn this post, I hope to dispel some common misconceptions about teaching grammar.
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