Stop! Grammar Time!

One day as a young lad, I was sitting alone in my room pondering what I wanted to be when I grew up. I knew I should find what my true passion was and it would lead me in the right direction. After much soul searching, I realized that I cared about nothing more than I cared about grammar. Thus, I decided to become an english teacher.... I kid, I kid. That's not how it was at all. I wasn't in my room I was at a bus stop. Kidding again.

Seriously though grammar is not what makes language arts the best subject in the history of education. Instead students find it very boring, myself included. Yet it must be taught. I did not receive much instruction in grammar while in high school, but I wish I had. It is important. As a writer I have always been told it's okay to break the rules as long as you know what you are breaking and why. Students need to know the correct way to write before they can use the english language to uniquely express what they really want to express. Therefore I think grammar lessons should be mixed into the fun stuff. Point out what a writer did in their work and why they did it. Keep the grammar lessons short, not all period long. Don't just put a red X through a grammar mistake on their paper, but instead explain to them why it is done another way. Slowly but surely students will improve their grammar and you won't have to bore their brains out!

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