Fresh Ideas to Teach Similes and Metaphors

Teaching is like a roller coaster. Some days you’re up, some days you’re down. But when it comes to teaching figurative language like similes and metaphors, there’s no need to spiral out! When you use these ideas to teach similes and metaphors in your classroom, your students will be as happy as clams. And with […]
Homophone How-To for 2nd Grade

Have you found yourself in a homophones teaching funk? Are your students just not understanding this important grammar skill? If so, keep reading this post set up as a “homophone how to for 2nd grade”, to learn tips, tricks and strategies to launch you and your students over this homophone hurdle. Enhance Literacy with Embedded […]
Teaching Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases

Enhance Literacy with Embedded Grammar Lessons Research on the Science of Reading (SOR) dating back to the 1970s shows that teaching grammar as isolated rules doesn’t effectively transfer to writing and speaking. What works better is embedding grammar within the context of writing. This is why our writing program Lucky to Learn Writing (LTLW) includes […]
Verb Tenses

By now, your learners have mastered the basic parts of a sentence. As their writing skills continue to grow, they will need to know how to write stories, and reports that tell what happened in the past, present, or future. Let’s dive into verb tenses! Enhance Literacy with Embedded Grammar Lessons Research on the Science […]
The Great 1st Grade Grammar Review!

Enhance Literacy with Embedded Grammar Lessons Research on the Science of Reading (SOR) dating back to the 1970s shows that teaching grammar as isolated rules doesn’t effectively transfer to writing and speaking. What works better is embedding grammar within the context of writing. This is why our writing program Lucky to Learn Writing (LTLW) includes […]
Teaching Shades of Meaning

Enhance Literacy with Embedded Grammar Lessons Research on the Science of Reading (SOR) dating back to the 1970s shows that teaching grammar as isolated rules doesn’t effectively transfer to writing and speaking. What works better is embedding grammar within the context of writing. This is why our writing program Lucky to Learn Writing (LTLW) includes […]