Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In this episode, I explain my methods for teaching phrases, subject verb agreement, prepositions, and more!

 

Quick Review of Part I of This Two Part Series (#51):

  • CAVES—Capital, All makes sense, Verb, End mark, Subject; how to teach students to
    recognize a sentence with that acronym (see my CAVES posters and reference ring cards
    here!)
  • How to help students memorize MANY subordinators
  • The value of using check sentences and mnemonics and clues!
  • Using weekly Think Fast Grammar Quizzes from 3rd grade on to memorize parts of
    speech (Beginner and Advanced)

On to this week’s content:

  • Differences between phrases and clauses
  • Reasons for learning prepositions
  • How to teach where a prepositional phrase begins and where it ends
  • How to teach students more than one hundred prepositions (Hint: Use one
    of these packets from my TPT store— Bugs on a Log, Beauty and Beast
    Preposition Packet, or Preposition Packet)
  • Writing with prepositional phrases
  • Isolating prepositional phrases to locate and match subject/verb
  • Punctuating sentences with prepositional phrase openers
  • Much more!

 

 

It’s all here in this week’s HIT––where each week, I bring you tips, tricks, and techniques for teaching writing, language arts, grammar, and more (to grades two through twelve) drawing upon my 100+ curriculum books totaling over 50,000 pages.

Note: This lesson came from The Write Right Quick Kit, an upper level, teacher, parent downloadable book!

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