Table of Contents
Notes on the Book
Dedication
Acknowledgements
Meet the Authors
Foreword by Liz Kolb
Chapter 1 - What’s the Matter with the Teaching of Grammar?
- The Great Grammar Debate, Part 1: 1890s to 1990s
- The Great Grammar Debate, Part 2: 100 Years and Counting
- The Great Grammar Debate, Part 3: Here Comes the Common Core
- Rethinking Grammar Instruction in a Single Year: A Guide to the Rest of the Book
Chapter 2: An Approach to Teaching Grammar with Digital Tools
- What the Research Says: The (Non) Effects of Text Speak
- Redefining Grammar Instruction in a Digital Age
- Triple E Framework: Engage, Enhance, Extend
- Tools of the Trade: Technologies for Digital Grammar Instruction
- Beginner: Getting Started with Screen Capture, Screencasting, and Annotation
- Intermediate: Sharing Media and Assessing Students’ Understanding
- Expert: Producing and Publishing More Enriched Media
- And...We’re Off... Ready, Tech, Go!
Chapter 3: Learning the Parts of Speech with Flipped Lessons
- What is Flipping the Classroom, Exactly?
- Critiques of the Flipped Model
- Digital Tools for Flipping Grammar
- Building a Flipped Video Lesson
- Working Through the Video: Steps for Student
- Using Flipped Videos from Other Sources
- Breaking it Down: Pronouns of the Personal Type
- Before the Flipped Lesson
- During the Flipped Lesson
- After the Flipped Lesson
- Building a Personal Grammar Guide
- Adverbs and Adjectives
- Final Thoughts and What’s Next
Chapter 4: Learning Sentence Style with Formal and Informal Writing
- Code Switching
- Compound, Complex, and Complete: Making Sentences Matter
- Sentence Combining with Lino
- I Tawt I Taw a Tweet Sentence
- Sentence Hacking
- Putting Lexile Leveling to Use for Writers
- What’s Next
Chapter 5: Enlivening Vocabulary
- The Struggle is Real
- Building Vocabulary with Quizlet
- Building "Study Sets" in Quizlet
- Building Toward Assessment with Quizlet
- Extensions for Quizlet
- Breathing Life into Vocabulary with Video
- The Vocabulary Video Assignment
- Extensions and Adaptations
- Student Vocabulary Growth Over Time
- Final Thoughts
Chapter 6 – Mastering Mechanics: Capitalization and Punctuation
- Capitalization
- The Dreaded Pronoun: "i"
- Capitalization Extensions
- The Paradox of Punctuation
- Taking Time to Pause with a Comma
- Is it a Period? Is it a Comma? No, it’s a Semicolon!
- Extensions and Adaptations
- Final Thoughts
Chapter 7 - Assessing Grammar in a Digital Age
- From Texting to Teaching: Four Tips
- Dealing with Assessments
- Summative Assessment through Portfolios
- Student Reflections
- Students Raise Their Voices: Asking For and Implementing Their Feedback
Afterword: Navigating Your Own Grammatical Journey
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