Bringing Grammar To Life

by Deborah Dean

How can you bring grammar to life for your students? By using everyday sources and an integrated approach in your classroom. In Bringing Grammar to Life, Deborah Dean offers concrete examples and sample classroom dialogue that shows what it means to integrate grammar into the content of a class. Chapter 1 sets the stage for this approach and explains the five aspects of grammar used in the -Traditional grammar
_Editing
_Usage
_Language change
_Rhetorical grammar Chapters 2 and 3 focus on how to integrate grammar with reading and writing. Chapter 4 addresses two major issues that complicate the effective teaching of grammar for many concern for English-language learners and testing. Finally, chapter 5 explores how to plan for and assess an integrated approach to grammar instruction. The International Reading Association is the world's premier organization of literacy professionals. Our titles promote reading by providing professional development to continuously advance the quality of literacy instruction and research. Research-based, classroom-tested, and peer-reviewed, IRA titles are among the highest quality tools that help literacy professionals do their jobs better. Some of the many areas we publish in -Comprehension
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Genres: Teaching

175 pages, Paperback

First published October 25, 2007

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't remember why I bought this book. I think I just wanted to learn a new approach to grammar. (I actually bought several writing/grammar books this summer.)

I'm planning on re-reading this book someday, but this time with a highlighter! There's soooo much information and I want to steal soooo many lessons. The majority of lessons are intended for high schoolers (that's the author's area of expertise) but there are several lessons for middle school.

I liked the conversations she created to describe how the lessons might look in the classroom. I wonder if I'll ever be able to get such conversations from my students. After a day like today, it doesn't feel like it.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is really interesting for future or current English teachers. It has lots of great, fun ideas for teaching grammar in a secondary classroom. I'm studying to become an English teacher and this will be helpful, but sometimes it gets a little repetitive. But it's still a pretty good book with really interesting insight.

Recommended for; people who are or are trying to become English teachers.

[Liz Thackeray · Rating 4 out of 5]

Over half way done and now to my dismay I realized I left the book on one of my many buses in Thailand. All of my annotations are gone :(

I just got a new copy for Christmas. Yay! Now I can finally finish.