Why Your Grammar Lessons Aren't Working
...and How to Fix Them! Teachers across the nation are confused as to why students have such bad grammar these days. There's a lot of talk about texting, social media, and now, even AI, but what if it all actually came down to something you were doing wrong? Don't freak out! This is actually good news because while we can't control the influence of tech on our students, we can control what and how we teach them. So take a deep breath, be honest with yourself, and get some strategies that work! You Think Reading Will Improve Writing OK, before you hunt me down and feed me to the literary wolves, hear me out. I admit that reading is a great way to improve spelling, vocabulary, and sentence fluency, which certainly do impact a conventions score. However, think about how often students are taught about sentence errors like run-ons, fragments, missing commas, unnecessary commas, etc. Then, think about the many classic texts we ask them to read that are riddled with errors like ...