Grammar Remediated
Purpose of Exercise: Teaching grammar rules to your students can be painstakingly boring—not only for them, but for you. Covering this...
Exquisite Corpse: Fun with Syntax
Purpose: This Mad-Libs-style exercise gets students thinking about how language works via an underhanded grammar refresher, and jarring...
Chaos is (Not) Our Friend: Editing for Clarity
Purpose: This handout and exercise is designed get students to consider, and read for, clarity. Use it if careless errors in student...
One-of-a-Kind Apostrophe Test
Purpose: This exercise is designed as a fun class "test" in the use of apostrophes. Use it if you're finding many such errors in student...
Sprinkle in Those Commas and Semicolons
Purpose: This exercise works to explore issues of grammar and punctuation in meaningful ways. The activity focuses on the confusion...