Grammar Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/grammar/ Cultivating creativity, wisdom, and virtue in education, entrepreneurship, and soul care. Fri, 29 Apr 2022 18:08:36 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/doingwhatmatters.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/house-tree-512od.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Grammar Archives • Doing What Matters with Janice Campbell https://doingwhatmatters.com/tag/grammar/ 32 32 89931359 Teaching Grammar: To Diagram or Not to Diagram? https://doingwhatmatters.com/teaching-grammar-to-diagram-or-not-to-diagram/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/teaching-grammar-to-diagram-or-not-to-diagram/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:08:13 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1583   When I teach essay writing for high school or college exams, I encourage students to beware of using absolutes such as “always” or “never,” because these are rarely true — there are exceptions to almost everything, and those absolutes...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/teaching-grammar-to-diagram-or-not-to-diagram/feed/ 2 1583 Connie Schenkelberg https://doingwhatmatters.com/connie-schenkelberg/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/connie-schenkelberg/#comments Tue, 03 Dec 2013 15:44:27 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1283 Connie Schenkelberg, my friend and colleague, stepped from this life to the next on Sunday morning (12/1/13), and I will miss her. I first met Connie at an HEAV homeschool conference in the 1990s. Her table was tucked into a...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/connie-schenkelberg/feed/ 2 1283 A Piqued Plea for Correctly Peeking at the Peak https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-piqued-plea-for-correctly-peeking-at-the-peak/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-piqued-plea-for-correctly-peeking-at-the-peak/#respond Tue, 17 Sep 2013 14:31:09 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1244 How to use the correct word when peeking at a peak.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/a-piqued-plea-for-correctly-peeking-at-the-peak/feed/ 0 1244 Happy National Grammar Day and Words Matter Week https://doingwhatmatters.com/happy-national-grammar-day-and-words-matter-week/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/happy-national-grammar-day-and-words-matter-week/#respond Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:45:54 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=1087 I love wordy holidays. We spend time teaching our children that words matter, and how to read, write, and speak correctly (or at least I hope we do), and I think those home lessons are reinforced by national holidays that...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/happy-national-grammar-day-and-words-matter-week/feed/ 0 1087 The Stages of Learning Language Arts https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-stages-of-learning-language-arts/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-stages-of-learning-language-arts/#comments Fri, 22 Jul 2011 06:47:38 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=655 There are five stages in learning language arts, and each stage has a different focus. This graphic will help you remember what to do when.

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/the-stages-of-learning-language-arts/feed/ 4 1855 Grammar Made Easy- New Question Answered-Gerunds & Verb Phrases https://doingwhatmatters.com/grammar-made-easy-new-question-answered-gerunds-verb-phrases/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/grammar-made-easy-new-question-answered-gerunds-verb-phrases/#respond Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:24:09 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=363 As I post the books we offer, I try to answer all the questions I can think of. Inevitably, others think of questions that would never cross my mind, and I try to add them to the FAQ page to...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/grammar-made-easy-new-question-answered-gerunds-verb-phrases/feed/ 0 363 Celebrate National Punctuation Day! https://doingwhatmatters.com/celebrate-national-punctuation-day/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/celebrate-national-punctuation-day/#respond Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:01:39 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=255 Okay, students, put on your party hats! It’s time to celebrate the not-so-lowly punctuation mark. We’re a little late to join the baking contest planned as part of the celebration, but there nothing stopping us from using commas, periods, apostrophes,...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/celebrate-national-punctuation-day/feed/ 0 1810 Questions about using Excellence In Literature in a co-op https://doingwhatmatters.com/questions-about-using-excellence-in-literature-in-a-co-op/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/questions-about-using-excellence-in-literature-in-a-co-op/#comments Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:32:55 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=106 I received an e-mail this morning from a co-op leader, inquiring about the Excellence in Literature (EIL) curriculum. When I receive detailed questions like these, I know that others are probably wondering some of the same of the same things,...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/questions-about-using-excellence-in-literature-in-a-co-op/feed/ 1 1777 How Many Years of Grammar Do You Need? https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-many-years-of-grammar-do-you-need/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-many-years-of-grammar-do-you-need/#comments Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:50:49 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=86 As I talk to homeschool parents at conventions and via e-mail, I am often asked, “How many years of grammar should I be requiring of my student?” or “Does the Grammar Made Easy: Writing a Step Above (sadly, this excellent book...

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]]> https://doingwhatmatters.com/how-many-years-of-grammar-do-you-need/feed/ 2 86 Perfectly Parsed Piffle- The Writing Evaluator’s Dilemma https://doingwhatmatters.com/perfectly-parsed-piffle-the-writing-evaluators-dilemma/ https://doingwhatmatters.com/perfectly-parsed-piffle-the-writing-evaluators-dilemma/#respond Tue, 09 Oct 2007 20:07:39 +0000 http://www.janice-campbell.com/?p=49 As parent-teachers, we’ve all seen boring writing assignments — a grammatically-correct report that simply paraphrases an encyclopedia entry or a five-paragraph essay that piles one trite cliche on another, and concludes without a glimmer of an original thought. If you’re anything like...

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