About three months ago, a colleague told me that she just spent two hours teaching students the different usages of the English word "as." I then asked her if she thought, after her dedicated efforts, ...

This story is part of a short series on innovative ways teachers are rethinking the traditional lesson plan. What’s one that resonated with you or the student in your life? Tell us about it: [email ...

Do you know what a suffix is, or how to distinguish adjectives from adverbs? If you have a six or seven-year-old, the chances are they do. Or at least, the UK government now says they should – by the ...

The course – Advanced Grammar for English Teachers, is divided into four modules. Each lesson is subdivided into bite size learning blocks which include reflective tasks, podcasts and an end of lesson ...

Donna Fisher, resource teacher for English language arts for the Pearl City-Waipahu complex area, has been creating rap songs — about 200 — for the past 20 years as a tool to teach middle schoolers.

Erica Bexley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...

The new question-of-the-week is: How should we teach grammar to students? Our students need to learn grammar, but the real question is how to teach it in ways that don’t bore them out of their minds.

SOME advice is worse than useless. A short list of bullet points from eHow, a website, that is passing around social networks purports to show “how to write good.” (Each rule was jokingly broken in ...

Primary schools are now handing out $20 how-to-teach grammar manuals in a bid to assist staff struggling to teach children basic literacy. The manual, produced by the Board of Studies Teaching and ...