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At Least Don’t Teach Grammar Before Age 11
As you may well know, I have been an almost-lone-voice in how rediculously useless teaching grammar (to grow writers) is as homeschoolers. Honestly, it's the same with mass education as
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On Spelling & Grammar: The More You Know, the Worse You Do
The Following is an Excerpt from a Yahoo Group I belong to...and my thoughts on why grammar and spelling are not really good subjects to teach. Hi Gina (and all), I feel
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Myth: Grammar Study Makes Your Child a Better Writer
In a recent conversation about grammar and writing, I made the following point. Hope it is helpful.Often I hear it posed that ‘grammar study is useful’— and, the reason they
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SAT Grammar Secret
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How to Teach Word Meanings
Here's a post I responded to about learning word meanings: Need a suggestion… my 9 yr old learns differently. I pulled her from PS after finding out that her work was
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Why Studying Grammar Hurts Writing (Video)
This is a post of an old rant of mind that I wanted to make sure was in my blog. Frankly, we know that the more one studies grammar, the
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Do You Know the Shortcut to Good Grammar?
I started out thinking I might want to explain why all the folks griping about grammar (and punctuation and spelling) on the internet need to relax. Look, I love grammar
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How Could Going to College Ruin Your Writing?
I have a terrible habit of not agreeing with folks very often. It isn't that I disagree, but it is that I don't agree completely. On the other hand, I
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