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Grammar:

Using the Bike Metaphor for Teaching Sentence Structure (Pam Dykstra: An Easy Guide to Writing)

Is This a Complete Sentence? (Titles of Children's Books)

My Big Fat Grammar Project: Learning Diagramming

Teaching Grammar: What Really Works Workshop

Blending Grammar and Vocabulary Instruction

Building Sentences: Adding Detail, Depth and Dimension

Sentence Sticks: Using color-coded manipulatives to teach sentence structure

Building Sentences: Expanding the Noun Phrase

Building a Noun Phrase

There/Their/, etc.: The Substitution Method

Writing with Special Focus

Sentence Completeness

Teaching Grammar: What Really Works

Vocabulary Games and Puzzles:

Latin Word Roots Visuals: 32 Must Know Latin Word Roots

The Perfect Squares Game: A game of manipulating Latin word components

The Power 100 Word Challenge

Swiss Cheese Soup

Whirly Words Game: A game of creating words out of Latin components

4-Puzzle Pages for the Academic Word List: Anagrams, Cryptograms, Word Finds, Diagramless Crosswords for each subset

Engaging Practices for Vocabulary

Socratic Seminar: A Collection of Texts

But I Don't Speak Spanish! (How you can help your Spanish-speaking students anyway.)

Introduction

Spanish-English Cognate Match-Up Game

Endings in Spanish

Character and Setting Traits

Anticipating Problems

English-Spanish Cognates for the AWL

Standards-Based Question Stems, Linked to the Standards: Grades 3-5