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Teaching grammar with playful poems : [engaging lessons with model poems by favorite poets that motivate kids to learn grammar] / Nancy Mack.

By: Series: Publication details: New York : Teaching Resources, ©2005.Description: 81 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0439574110
  • 9780439574112
Other title:
  • Title appears on item as: Scholastic teaching grammar with playful poems
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 428.2
LOC classification:
  • LB1575 .M33 2005
Partial contents:
Introduction -- Grammar instruction myths: challenging assumptions about language learning -- Verbs: cures for a boring day poems (action verbs, verb tenses, irregular verbs, predicates, imperative sentences) -- Nouns: lost and found poems (common and proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, capitalization, article-noun agreement) -- Pronouns: encounter poems (personal pronouns, subject and object pronouns, possessive pronouns) -- Adjectives: synonym poems (adjective usage, synonyms, adjective-forming suffixes, serial comma) -- Adverbs: poetry in motion (adverb usage, comparative and superlative adverbs, sentence structure) -- Prepositional phrase: dream poems (prepositions, prepositional phrases, objects of the preposition) -- Conjunctions: pair poems (coordinating conjunctions, parallel structure, compound sentences) -- Interjections: extraordinary experience poems (interjection usage and punctuation) -- Taking the next step: supporting language learning beyond the grammar lessons in this book.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Curriculum Lab - Materials for K - 12th Grade Academic Resource Center at Levitt Educational Curriculum (MAIN level) PE 535 .M33 2005 Gr.3-5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 134423

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Introduction -- Grammar instruction myths: challenging assumptions about language learning -- Verbs: cures for a boring day poems (action verbs, verb tenses, irregular verbs, predicates, imperative sentences) -- Nouns: lost and found poems (common and proper nouns, singular and plural nouns, capitalization, article-noun agreement) -- Pronouns: encounter poems (personal pronouns, subject and object pronouns, possessive pronouns) -- Adjectives: synonym poems (adjective usage, synonyms, adjective-forming suffixes, serial comma) -- Adverbs: poetry in motion (adverb usage, comparative and superlative adverbs, sentence structure) -- Prepositional phrase: dream poems (prepositions, prepositional phrases, objects of the preposition) -- Conjunctions: pair poems (coordinating conjunctions, parallel structure, compound sentences) -- Interjections: extraordinary experience poems (interjection usage and punctuation) -- Taking the next step: supporting language learning beyond the grammar lessons in this book.

Grades 3-5.

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