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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
Print Book, English, ©2005
Teaching Resources, New York, ©2005
Problems and Exercises
Grades 3-5.
81 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
9780439574112, 0439574110
62498248
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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