Book

Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers

by Brock Haussamen and Amy Benjamin and Martha Kolln and Rebecca S. Wheeler

Grammar Alive!: A Guide for Teachers
Grades
K - 12
Type
Book
Pages
121
Published
October 2003
Publisher
NCTE
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Description

NCTE's Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar provides this much-needed resource for K-college teachers who wonder what to do about grammar-how to teach it, how to apply it, how to learn what they themselves were never taught.

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