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Grammar Teaching Resources

This site collects a number of resources to help in the teaching of language and grammar as part of an authentic writing and reading curriculum. You'll find models of specific grammar concepts that can help student writers and enhance our appreciation of the writer's craft. You'll also find lesson plans that provide grammar instruction in a meaningful way. And you'll find craft tables--analyses of published writing common in schools or relevant to teenagers that identify and discuss the moves that good writers make.

Grammar Models

This section gathers models from texts that exemplify grammar and syntactical features that have been shown to help students improve their writing. Use the links below to access models of these different features.

Words	Phrases	Clauses
opening adverbs	absolute phrases	noun clauses
delayed adverbs	appositive phrases	adverb clauses
opening adjectives	prepositional phrases	adjective clauses
delayed or out-of-order adjectives	participial phrases
	gerund phrases
	infinitive phrases

Punctuation	Sentences	Other Interesting Features
commas	fragments	great or interesting writing
semicolons	parallel structures	"Grammar B" examples
colons	compound sentences	orthographic variations
dashes	comma splices (appropriate)	uses of slang
	cleft sentences

Craft Tables

The linked articles here analyze texts--many of them commonly taught in schools--through the lens of grammar (looking at stylistic, rhetorical, or lexical choices). We call these "craft tables" because through them we're conducting a closer look at an author's craft in the hopes that we might learn more about the writing craft.

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn	The Hero and the Crown	A Tree Grows In Brooklyn	Oh, the Places You'll Go!
The House of the Scorpion	Eragon by Christopher Paolini	The Great Gatsby	To Build a Fire	The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson	Fahrenheit 451	Faithful Elephants	Elbert's Bad Word	Poison Study
The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein	Pingo	The Little Red Lighthouse	"Uh Oh" (Essay) by Robert Fulghum	Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor	Hatchet by Gary Paulsen	The Martian Chronicles	The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien	The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak	You Are Special by Max Lucado	Roll of Thunder by Mildred D. Taylor (Chapter 7)	A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (pages 3-13)	A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (Chapter 1)
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman	Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by JK Rowling	Octavian Nothing by M.T. Anderson	Canyons by Gary Paulsen	The Outsiders (pages 34-43) by S.E. Hinton
The Giving Tree by Shel Silversein	Matched by Ally Condie	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad	The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas	To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle (pgs. 1-10)	The Help by Kathryn Stockett	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury	Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Graveyard Book (120-130) by Neil Gaiman	Being Nikki by Meg Cabot	Goodnight, Little Monster by Helen Ketteman	To Kill a Mockingbird (Chapter 1) by Harper Lee	Whales on Stilts by M. T. Anderson
Al Capone Does My Shirts by Gennifer Choldenko	The Uglies by Scott Westerfield	The Jungle by Upton Sinclair	Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (3-12)	The Giver by Lois Lowry (Chapter 8)
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison	Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy	The Magician's Nephew by C.S. Lewis	The Book Thief By Markus Zusak (pg 320-340)	Stargirl by Jerry Spinelli (15-16)
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger	The Maze Runner By James Dashner Pg 1- 7	The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean	The Giver by Lois Lowry (chapter 10-11)	The Help by Kathryn Stockett (Pg. 130-140)
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (1-2) by Mildred D. Taylor	The Great Gatsby (Chapter 1) by F. Scott Fitzgerald	The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros	Squids Will Be Squids by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith	The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (pgs 53-67)
Ghost (Chapter 1) by Jason Reynolds	East of Eden (Chapter 39, Section 2) by John Steinbeck	The Murders in the Rue Morgue (Part 1) by Edgar Allen Poe	Craft Table for Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson - Maren Titel.docx	How it Feels to be Colored Me by Zora Neale Hurston
Mistborn, Brandon Sanderson, ch. 14	Fish Cheeks by Amy Tan	The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner	My Name is Asher Lev (Chapter 1) by Chaim Potok	The Two Princesses of Bamarre by Gail Carson Levine
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (Chapters 1-4)	Okay For Now by Gary D. Schmidt	Dalloway_CraftTable_CelisaYoung.pdf	Eve's Diary by Mark Twain	The Song Poet (Track 8) by Kao Kalia Yang.docx
"Click Clack the Rattle Bag" by Neil Gaiman	Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys.docx	The Lady, or the Tiger? by Frank R. Stockton	The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien	Love You Forever by Robert Munsch.docx
The Phantom Tollbooth (Chapters 1-4) by Norton Juster	Unwind by Neal Shusterman	Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson.docx	Desiree's Baby by Kate Chopin	Off the Record by Camyrn Garrett https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Nf4pyE2d8_PhqBfDGbCyQYecTD00o9RYN0T25jcYs6g/edit?usp=sharing
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak	The Last of the Bandit Riders...Revisited Again by Matt Warner	The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde	Turtles All the Way Down by John Green	A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe	A Mercy by Toni Morrison	Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward	To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee	One of Us is Lying by Karen McManus
Renegades by Marissa Meyer	Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus by Dusti Bowling	The Goose Girl by Shannon Hale	Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte	The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Dirty Little Secrets - C.J. Omololu.pdf	The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas	The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Perkins Gillman	Chain of Iron by Cassandra Clare	Bomb.pdf Bomb by Steve Sheinkin
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros	Mansfield Park by Jane Austen	Dune by Frank Herbert	Chasing the Scream by Johann Hari	Tennis, Trigonometry, Tornadoes: A Midwestern Boyhood by David Foster Wallace
Proving Up by Karen Russell	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer	Count of Monte Cristo by Alexander Dumas.docx	Night, Elie Wiesel	The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis Ch. 14

Writing Units with Integrated Grammar Instruction

In addition to these models of grammar features, we've also started collecting lesson plans to show how to teach these concepts in the context of students' reading and writing. These lesson plans showcase mini-lessons (designed to last from 20-30 minutes) that are tied to meaningful writing or reading contexts; they feature the instructional framework developed by Constance Weaver (as described most recently in her book, The Grammar Plan Book) and the sentence composing techniques designed by Don Killgallon (as described in a chapter of that title in Weaver's compilation, Lessons to Share on Teaching Grammar in Context). You can access the lessons plans from this page.