Books - Grammar, Y'all

GRAMMAR TO GET THINGS DONE

A Practical Guide for Teachers Anchored in Real-Wrold Usage

Grammar to Get Things Done offers a fresh lens on grammar and grammar instruction, designed for middle and secondary pre-service and in-service English teachers. It shows how form, function, and use can help teachers move away from decontextualized grammar instruction (such as worksheets and exercises emphasizing rule-following and memorizing conventional definitions) and begin considering grammar in applied contexts of everyday use.

“The methods work and are seamless. This is a book for all English teachers.”

-AMAZON Customer Review

“I am obsessed with this book! I’ve never had a grammar book that I was sad to have finished.”

– AMAZON Customer Review

“A wonderful text for those who want to increase student understanding and have ideas on how to incorporate grammar in their lessons without overwhelming students.”

– AMAZON Customer Review

MORE GRAMMAR TO GET THINGS DONE

Daily Lessons for Teaching Grammar in Context

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.

“Yes, I said engaging grammar instruction! I used several ideas for lessons out of this book, and they were some of the lessons my eighth graders remembered best by the end of the school year. This book is perfect for the teacher who already understands grammar pretty well and is looking for practical ideas to engage their students.

If you are less confident about grammar rules, then you might want to start with Grammar to Get Things Done by the same authors.”

-AMAZON Customer Review

“This is a fantastic resource for English teachers! I like the real world applications and examples it provides. I highly recommend this book.”

– AMAZON Customer Review

Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom

Strategies and Models from Teachers and Linguists

Bringing together the varied and multifaceted expertise of teachers and linguists in one accessible volume, this book presents practical tools, grounded in cutting-edge research, for teaching about language and language diversity in the ELA classroom. By demonstrating practical ways teachers can implement research-driven linguistic concepts in their own teaching environment, each chapter offers real-world lessons as well as clear methods for instructing students on the diversity of language. Written for pre-service and in-service teachers, this book includes easy-to-use lesson plans, pedagogical strategies and activities, as well as a wealth of resources carefully designed to optimize student comprehension of language variation.

“One of the things I love about this volume is that the classroom approaches and activities engage students’ curiosity about the language they see and hear around them, as well as the language they encounter in literature…This volume is a gem because it has experienced secondary teachers and linguists in conversation about how to teach in a linguistically informed and engaging way… Linguists have much to learn from these essays about how to make linguistics more accessible for K-12 classrooms and how to design introductory linguistics courses to be more helpful for teachers in training. And secondary teachers (as well as teachers of younger students) can find information here that may inspire them to experiment with new approaches in their classrooms as early as tomorrow, because experienced teachers are laying out in detail how to do so―and why.”

– From the Foreword by Anne Curzan, University of Michigan, USA

Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom

Models and Lessons from Around the World

Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom offers researchers and teachers methods for instructing students on the diversity of the English language on a global scale. A complement to Devereaux and Palmer’s Teaching Language Variation in the Classroom, this collection provides real-world, classroom-tested strategies for teaching English language variation in a variety of contexts and countries, and with a variety of language learners.

“This is exactly the teaching resource I have been seeking for use in my courses. The book introduces imaginative pedagogical activities, situated in the theoretical orientations that inform them. It relates the World Englishes paradigm to evolving orientations in translanguaging and raciolinguistics, and brings together scholars in diverse countries to share their approaches to teaching language variation. It is an invaluable resource in courses aiming to make students aware of the global diversity of English.”

– Suresh Canagarajah, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor, Pennsylvania State University, USA

“For many years now, English teachers around the world have been able to read extensively about the spread of English and resulting variation from a theoretical perspective. Far less available, even today, is what teachers arguably need far more: the practical implications. It is this gap that Teaching English Language Variation in the Global Classroom so abundantly and admirably fills. While not at all lacking in theoretical underpinnings, it provides teachers with all-important practical ideas across an impressively wide range of settings and domains and will prove an invaluable resource.”

-Jennifer Jenkins, Emeritus Professor, University of Southampton, UK

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