Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Tables
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1 What Is This Book About?
What This Book Does and How Itโs Organized
Incremental Growth
Guides, Not Scripts
Reciprocal Teaching and Learning
From Downright Overwhelming to Teachable
Chapter 2 Language Study Reset: Shifting the Grammar Focus
A Metaphor to Get Us Started
Shifting Our Lens
Understanding 1: We Arenโt Teaching Grammar; Weโre Teaching Language
Grammar
Usage
Mechanics
Back to Grammar as Language
Understanding 2: Language Is Really Weird, and We Have to Anticipate, Plan for, and Build on That Weirdness Rather Than Pretend That It Doesnโt Exist
Understanding 3: For Almost Everyone, Grammar Instruction Has Been Contaminated by Negative Experiences. We Canโt Move Forward Until We Address This Significant Problem
Understanding 4: Language Is Bound in People, Places, and Power Structures, and If Weโre Going to Talk About Language, We Have to Understand and Respect These Connections
Understanding 5: We Need to Stop and Really Think Carefully About What Terminology We Want Students to Learn and Be Able to Justify the Reasoning Behind It
Understanding 6: Believe It or Not, Itโs Okay If You Donโt Know All the Answers. We Have to Be Comfortable in Our Not-Always-Knowing
Chapter 3 Grammar in Context: Texts, Writing, and Real Life
Text-Based Grammar in Context
Text, Theme, and Grammar
Step 1: Grammar Does Things
Step 2: The Novel and the Theme
Step 3: What Grammar Concept Is Going to Benefit My Students and What Grammar Concept Is Found in the Novel?
Step 4: Making a Decision
Writer-Based Grammar in Context
Reality-Based Grammar in Context
Whatโs the Goal?
Example 1: Netflix Show Summaries
Example 2: Rhetorical Grammar on Social Media
Example 3: News Articles
Noun Phrases and Appositives
Participial Phrases
Verbs
Example 4: Leveraging Language Diversity
Rule 1: Standardized English Is a Dialect
Rule 2: All Variations of English Are Rule-Governed
Rule 3: We All Have Implicit Beliefs About Language Variation
Some General Advice
Get Curious, Observe, Take Notes
Reciprocate and Be a Student
Reward Extended Analyses of Unorthodox and Contextual Language Use
Creating Authentic Scenarios
General Principles of Scenario-Creation
Pushing Beyond Conventional Framing
Experiment. Then Adjust and Try Again
Chapter 4 Daily Lessons for Ten Grammar Concepts
New Ways of Teaching, New Vocabulary
Labeling What They Do
This Is Not a Scripted Curriculum and Hereโs Why
Youโve Been Talking a Lot About Grammar in ContextโThis Doesnโt Seem Like Grammar in Context to Me!
Why We Chose What We Did in the Order We Did . . .
Checking Student Understanding Without Demoralizing
What Do I Do with the Scenarios?
Just One Answer . . .
Welcome to the Messy World of Grammar!
Concept #1: Sentences and Nonsentences
Concept #2: Dependent Clauses And Complex Sentences
Concept #3: Coordinating Conjunctions
Concept #4: Conjunctive Adverbs
Concept #5: Noun Phrases, Appositives, And Nominalization
Concept #6: Absolutes And Participial Phrases
Concept #7: Active And Passive Voice
Concept #8: Semicolons And Colons
Concept #9: Hyphenated Adjectives And Nouns
Concept #10: Dashes
Appendix
A. Grammar Shortcut Sheet
B. A Brief Glossary of Useful Terms
Grammar and Usage
Linguistic Concepts About Grammar
C. Teaching Language Varieties: A Brief Annotated Bibliography
Index