Complementing Crovitz and Devereaux’s successful Grammar to Get Things Done, this book demystifies grammar in context and offers day-by-day guides for teaching ten grammar concepts, giving teachers a model and vocabulary for discussing grammar in real ways with their students. Through applied practice in real-world contexts, the authors explain how to develop students’ mastery of grammar and answer difficult questions about usage, demonstrating how grammar acts as a tool for specific purposes in students’ lives. Accessibly written and organized, the book provides ten adaptable activity guides for each concept, illustrating instruction from a use-based perspective. Middle and high school preservice and inservice English teachers will gain confidence in their own grammar knowledge and learn how to teach grammar in ways that are uniquely accessible and purposeful for students.
Author(s): Darren Crovitz; Michelle D. Devereaux
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2019
Language: English
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Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 What Is This Book About?
What This Book Does and How It’s Organized
Incremental Growth
Guides, Not Scripts
Reciprocal Teaching and Learning
From Downright Overwhelming to Teachable
Chapter 2 Language Study Reset: Shifting the Grammar Focus
A Metaphor to Get Us Started
Shifting Our Lens
Understanding 1: We Aren’t Teaching Grammar; We’re Teaching Language
Grammar
Usage
Mechanics
Back to Grammar as Language
Understanding 2: Language Is Really Weird, and We Have to Anticipate, Plan for, and Build on That Weirdness Rather Than Pretend That It Doesn’t Exist
Understanding 3: For Almost Everyone, Grammar Instruction Has Been Contaminated by Negative Experiences. We Can’t Move Forward Until We Address This Significant Problem
Understanding 4: Language Is Bound in People, Places, and Power Structures, and If We’re Going to Talk About Language, We Have to Understand and Respect These Connections
Understanding 5: We Need to Stop and Really Think Carefully About What Terminology We Want Students to Learn and Be Able to Justify the Reasoning Behind It
Understanding 6: Believe It or Not, It’s Okay If You Don’t Know All the Answers. We Have to Be Comfortable in Our Not-Always-Knowing
Chapter 3 Grammar in Context: Texts, Writing, and Real Life
Text-Based Grammar in Context
Text, Theme, and Grammar
Step 1: Grammar Does Things
Step 2: The Novel and the Theme
Step 3: What Grammar Concept Is Going to Benefit My Students and What Grammar Concept Is Found in the Novel?
Step 4: Making a Decision
Writer-Based Grammar in Context
Reality-Based Grammar in Context
What’s the Goal?
Example 1: Netflix Show Summaries
Example 2: Rhetorical Grammar on Social Media
Example 3: News Articles
Noun Phrases and Appositives
Participial Phrases
Verbs
Example 4: Leveraging Language Diversity
Rule 1: Standardized English Is a Dialect
Rule 2: All Variations of English Are Rule-Governed
Rule 3: We All Have Implicit Beliefs About Language Variation
Some General Advice
Get Curious, Observe, Take Notes
Reciprocate and Be a Student
Reward Extended Analyses of Unorthodox and Contextual Language Use
Creating Authentic Scenarios
General Principles of Scenario-Creation
Pushing Beyond Conventional Framing
Experiment. Then Adjust and Try Again
Chapter 4 Daily Lessons for Ten Grammar Concepts
New Ways of Teaching, New Vocabulary
Labeling What They Do
This Is Not a Scripted Curriculum and Here’s Why
You’ve Been Talking a Lot About Grammar in Context—This Doesn’t Seem Like Grammar in Context to Me!
Why We Chose What We Did in the Order We Did . . .
Checking Student Understanding Without Demoralizing
What Do I Do with the Scenarios?
Just One Answer . . .
Welcome to the Messy World of Grammar!
Concept #1: Sentences and Nonsentences
Concept #2: Dependent Clauses And Complex Sentences
Concept #3: Coordinating Conjunctions
Concept #4: Conjunctive Adverbs
Concept #5: Noun Phrases, Appositives, And Nominalization
Concept #6: Absolutes And Participial Phrases
Concept #7: Active And Passive Voice
Concept #8: Semicolons And Colons
Concept #9: Hyphenated Adjectives And Nouns
Concept #10: Dashes
Appendix
A. Grammar Shortcut Sheet
B. A Brief Glossary of Useful Terms
Grammar and Usage
Linguistic Concepts About Grammar
C. Teaching Language Varieties: A Brief Annotated Bibliography
Index
