by Language Arts Lady | Feb 7, 2023 | 10 Minute Grammar
One of my favorite topics to help students write about is people. Writing about people is a great starting point for early writers to use sources, an excellent way to give passages of material for kids to write from, and can even challenge upper-level high schoolers,...
by Language Arts Lady | Jan 14, 2023 | 10 Minute Grammar
Welcome to Part II of II of Subordinators! (Part I is Episode 16) In this episode, I review my first two tricks for teaching students lists of subordinators: (1) First seven subordinators learned in rhyme: Since, when, because, though As, if, that, although! (2)...
by Language Arts Lady | Dec 7, 2022 | 10 Minute Grammar
In today’s episode I teach one of my favorite beginning story writing techniques—giving students two paragraphs from a familiar story that they get to finish. (In this case, these came from Jump Start I (semester long book) and Write On, Mowgli (one month...
by Language Arts Lady | Dec 2, 2022 | 10 Minute Grammar
When considering “main parts of speech,” there are a lot of lists floating around. The first eleven episodes of this broadcast are made up of 10 First Parts of Speech in Order. But why are some included and some not? (See 10 MG #1 for more details on that!) I am an...
by Language Arts Lady | Nov 18, 2022 | 10 Minute Grammar
Teaching poetry writing is one of the (many) great loves of my life! Upper elementary students can enjoy poetry writing if it is taught to them systematically. On today’s episode, I start with the first three steps I use for teaching poetry to fourth graders and up:...
