by Language Arts Lady | Apr 9, 2021 | How I Teach
Welcome to HIT—How I Teach….In HIT #10, I teach the fun, valuable, and exciting skill of dialogue writing and short story dialogue for junior high and high school student. Of course, I have a mentor text/sample story with all of the elements AND a super...
by Language Arts Lady | May 8, 2020 | Articles, Grammar, Punctuation Puzzles
He passed the test or He past the test? Go passed the house or Go past the house? Passed and past are super confusing–as evidenced in social media every where. It’s not just students who have trouble with this confusing word...
by Language Arts Lady | Sep 30, 2019 | Articles, Grammar
One of the first things that we teach students who are learning to write sentences is that every sentence must have two things: a subject and a verb. (Technically, I teach that a sentence must have FIVE things—CAVES: Capital, All Makes Sense, Verb, End Mark,...