Writing remains a shifting fuzzy cloud floating in a wide subjective sky. This week, teachers all over the country have been sharing tales of teaching that most difficult of subjects—writing. They are ...

The ACT reported recently that college professors rank grammar as the most important skill for students entering college, while high-school teachers consider it the least important. The ACT thinks ...

Great teachers know how to improve myriad aspects of student writing: idea generation, organization, evidence marshaling, diction, grammar, and more. But even with tools and techniques in each of ...

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In this resource, we explore how grammar can be taught rhetorically where the focus is on the learner understanding the writing situation, making effective choices while constructing sentences, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. English departments will be chiefly responsible for teaching grammar, sentence structure and punctuation, under a draft new syllabus, ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What is the single most effective instructional strategy you have used to teach writing? Teaching and learning good writing can be a challenge to educators and ...

Schools are being encouraged to explicitly teach writing across all subjects – including science, history and potentially ­standard maths – not just English, in a bid to improve students’ writing ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. A recent report into Australia’s NAPLAN results showed that in 2019 close to a quarter of boys and 10 per cent of girls in year 9 were ...

In grade school, we were required to try our hand at playing an instrument. I, along with about 30 of my fellow 4 th graders, wanted the drums. I ended up with the clarinet. I did not want to play the ...