Middle School Linguistics

I'm a little slow in getting this posted, but did want to share - In November of 2014, I traveled to the National Council of Teachers of...

Since the school year has just come to an end, I feel like this blog needs some sort of closure too. I haven’t posted in awhile since some o...

I’ve been spending time lately not developing lessons with teachers, but trying to bring together the work we have done into some kind of re...

Deidre and her students have been talking about possessive nouns and the apostrophes that go along with them. I joined them today as they lo...

I’ve been thinking about sentence diagramming. Both this kind: (which has gotten some recent press with the release of this poster ) an...

We know that language is always changing. Pronunciation changes perhaps faster than other kinds of grammatical changes since it doesn’t matc...

At first, I didn’t think there was really anything interesting to say about the comma with items in a series, but I think it’s actually a go...