Grammar Teaching Guide- Teacher Tips #484

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Weekly Tips for Teachers Issue 484: October 19, 2009

This Week: Grammar Teaching Guide

1. Grammar Theme 2. Grammar Lesson Plans 3. Grammar Worksheets 4. November Resources 5. Election Day Theme Teachers: Speed It Up! Super Printables Great Worksheets Need A Timesaver? Complete Grammar Language Arts Sets Ultimate Teacher Timesavers... View Grammar Series View All Sets WOW! 25,000 teacher resources! View them here...

Teacher Resources For Your Week Teaching Tip: Learning About Adjectives By: Anna Panetta, Language Arts Teacher, Grades 3-6: Nutley, NJ Make a list of adjectives and ask students to name a noun that goes with the adjective. For example, courageous - captain; timid - puppy; powerful - monarch. If students have trouble with the meaning of a word used as an adjective, encourage them to look for the definition using a dictionary. Tell students that they cannot repeat a noun twice. This activity can be extended to include synonyms that can also be used to describe the noun. In this case, a thesaurus comes in handy. This Week in History 1864: Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday. 1935: Mao Zedong & his Communist forces ended their "Long March".

Teacher Inspiration and Humor Inspiring Teacher Quote "The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influences." Amos Alcott Jokes You Can Tell in Class Driving my car one afternoon, I rolled through a stop sign. I was pulled over by a police officer, who recognized me as his former English teacher. "Mrs. Brown," he said, "those stop signs are periods, not commas."

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