Ah grammar, some of us love it some of us hate it but we all agree that our students need to learn it. But how and how much are the controversial questions. Over the past few weeks, the WVCTE blog has been filled with interesting posts about the teaching of Read more…
By Adrin Fisher Not to date myself, but when I was in eighth grade, there was this thing called diagramming sentences. There was a lot of diagramming sentences in my English class: we headed to the blackboard and grabbed some chalk with our homework papers held in sweaty fists, filling Read more…
BY: LIZ KEIPER Here’s a list of three (of the many) things I struggled with as an English teacher during my first few years of teaching: How to teach vocabulary in a meaningful context in a way so that students would actually learn the words and incorporate them into their Read more…