March 4th was National Grammar Day and we’re celebrating for the whole month. We’ve brought together a huge list of articles, videos, photocopiable worksheets, podcasts, blog posts, and more.
Classroom Resources
- Fun with Grammar (brought to you by the Azar-Hagen Grammar Team)
- Grammar Speaks (brought to you by the Azar-Hagen Grammar Team)
Grammar Day Articles
- Corpus Linguistics and Grammar Teaching by Douglas Biber and Susan Conrad (PDF format)
- Communicative Activities for Teaching Grammar (and One Big Problem to Avoid)
- Are You Making the #1 Grammar Teaching Mistake?
- A Conversation with Betty Azar and her new co-author, Stacy Hagen (PDF format)
- “But Teacher, Some People Talk Like That”
- Two Things You Aren’t Spending Enough Time On In Grammar Class
- From the Trenches: What Grammar Teachers Are Talking About
- Recent Research in Teaching Grammar
Podcasts
- A GPS for Effective Grammar Teaching by Irene E. Schoenberg
Video
- Understanding Wh- Questions, Lesson 1, part 2
- Understanding can/can’t in Spoken English
- Nouns
- Conjunctions
- Grammar Rock: Interjection
- Grammar Rock: Adverb
- Grammar Rock:Adjectives
Community
Blog Posts
- Learning Adverb Phrases Through Storytelling (English with Jennifer)
- Story Starters and Endings: A writing activity to practice “Must” and “Have To” (English with Jennifer)
- Four Ps of the Future: An Activity to Teach the Uses of Future Tenses (English with Jennifer)
- Rules Grammar Change (Language Log)
- A Lesson For Teaching National Grammar Day (from Sean Banville)
- Weird Grammar (Language Log)
- Getting Students Learning English through YouTube (Kalinago English)
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