Grammar+for+ALL

> [|When Should You Correct Someone's Grammar?] - A short little article about whether you should tell someone not to say "between you and I" or get punched in the face. > readers' expectations by taking liberties with grammar.
 * [|National Punctuation Day!!!]! September 24
 * [|Animated Grammar] Web page that hosts little bitty animated videos that explain grammatical concepts.
 * [|Madlibs online] Yes, madlibs. You can also paste in a widget of madlibs.
 * [|English Exercises Online] Gobs of exercises, lesson plans. A real motherload.
 * [|Grammar Bites] A fun site with interactive games.
 * [|Got quizzes?] Good site for online quizzes about almost every part of grammar instruction.
 * [|NYT Grammar Quiz] This is tricky. I love the grammarians weighing in on the post quiz discussion! Try it yourself.
 * [|Wide World of Verbs] Has a couple of easy interactive quizzes.
 * [|Latin-Greek Derivatives] A page full of Latin and Greek morphs - just for fun... ha.
 * [|Greek root words].
 * National Grammar Day (March 4)
 * [] This is a webpage with grammar POWERPOINTS and handouts.
 * [|50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice] - an article on some of the dubious advice in Strunk & White's __The Elements of Style__.
 * The Elements of Style Yep, here is the online version. Check out the dubious advice for yourself. Nice searchable feature in this online edition.
 * [|Grammar Can Be Fun!] - an odd picture book from a while back.
 * [|How To Use A Semi-Colon] - A graphically-interesting look at a misunderstood punctuation mark.
 * Read Dave Barry's humorous views on grammar:<[]>
 * Andy Rooney's quibbles on word choice and usage: <[]>
 * Is "proper" grammar always best? Poets like John Ashberry <[]> challenge

__Just for Teachers (Students, these might bore you):__ Teaching grammar presents certain challenges. The article "To Grammar or Not to Grammar: That Is Not the Question!" in PDF format: <[|http://www.learner.org/workshops/middlewriting/images/pdf/W8ReadGrammar.pdf>emphasizes] the importance of teaching grammar in the context of writing. The article is included in Workshop 8 of Write in the Middle: A Workshop for Middle School Teachers: <[]>. Explore sentence syntax as it relates to math and patterns in the Teacher's Lab Syntax Store: <[]>. Scientists have found that grammar and patterns in language are hard-wired in the brain. Learn more about this, and about how language is acquired, in Discovering Psychology: Updated Edition Program 6,"Language Development": <[] "Usage and Mechanics" <[]>, Workshop 5 of Developing Writers: A Workshop for High School Teachers, reviews effective strategies for teaching grammar. Web materials include an interactive to help you assess your own methods of assessing student work.