Active and Passive Voice Activities
Understanding active and passive voice can help students write clearer and more effective sentences. It can also help them better comprehend the meaning of what they are reading.
By analyzing the differences between active and passive voice, students can develop critical thinking skills and learn to think more deeply about the language they use.
Complex Sentence Strategies
Teaching complex sentence writing to students can be a challenging task. Here are a few simple, but effective strategies you can use to help your students understand and use these sentences effectively.
Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns
Teaching Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns Using apostrophes in possessive nouns is one of the most challenging punctuation skills young students need to learn. Once they’ve been introduced to this punctuation mark, they want to use them everywhere! Editing their writing can be a nightmare. The most effective way to catch, correct, and prevent these errors […]
Common and Proper Nouns
Common and Proper Nouns – 4 Steps to Success Once students can confidently answer the question, “What are nouns?”, they’re ready to move on to learning about common and proper nouns. Like any good lesson, scaffolding instruction is the key to student success. Solid core instruction means fewer students who need reteaching and/or remediation. Strategic […]
Teach Concrete Nouns in 3 Easy Steps
As an adult, when we prepare to teach concrete nouns it seems like it would be easy. However, we’ve all had students who seem to struggle with learning this concept. Three easy steps can change that!
Read on to find out what you can do to make learning about nouns a complete success in your classroom.