Grammar

These classroom-tested lesson plans from ReadWriteThink provide ready resources for teachers working with students from kindergarten to high school.

• Every Punctuation Mark Matters: A Mini-Lesson on Semicolons (M)
• Action Is Character: Exploring Character Traits with Adjectives (M)
• Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Mini-Lesson (S)
• Choosing the Best Verb: An Active and Passive Voice Mini-Lesson (S)
• Style: Defining and Exploring an Author's Stylistic Choices (S)
• Become a Character: Adjectives, Character Traits, and Perspective (S)
• Avoiding Sexist Language by Using Gender-Fair Pronouns (S)

Books from NCTE 

For over seventy-five years, NCTE has published books for teachers' professional development at every level, elementary through college.  Browse these books with a focus on grammar today!

NCTE Web Seminars

These virtual events are a convenient and meaningful form of professional development.  On Demand Web seminars provide the recorded version of the virtual event and include all audio, video, chat discussion, and actions within the presentation.

• Integrating Grammar into the Context of Writing featuring Jeff Anderson (K-8)
• Not the Same Old Boring Grammar featuring Doug Fisher and Carol Rothenberg (6-12)

Grammar Themed Journals

• "Beyond Grammar: The Richness of English Language," English Journal, March 2011
• "Revitalizing Grammar," English Journal, January 2003
• “Contextualizing Grammar,” Voices from the Middle, March 2001

NCTE Position Statements
NCTE has several guidelines and positons related to grammar including the NCTE Guideline:  Some Questions and Answers about Grammar.

Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar (ATEG)
The purposes of this assembly are to improve the teaching of grammar at all levels, from elementary school through college; to promote communication and cooperation among teachers, researchers, administrators, and others interested in the teaching of grammar; to provide an open forum in which advocates of all grammar theories, representing the broad spectrum of views of grammar and its teaching, can interact.  Visit the ATEG Web page at www.ateg.org.