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Title Page
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Table of Contents
Meet the Author
Acknowledgments
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Introduction Grammar Tools: Helping Middle School Students Understand the Importance and Uses of Grammar
Part I: Grammatical Concepts Aligned with Grade 6 Common Core Language Standards
1. Understanding the Impact of Intensive Pronouns
2. Achieving Clarity with Proper Pronoun Case
3. Using Punctuation to Set Off Nonrestrictive Elements
4. Maintaining Consistency in Style and Tone
11. Forming and Using Verbs in the Indicative, Imperative, Interrogative, Conditional, and Subjunctive Moods
12. Using Punctuation to Indicate a Pause or Break
Part IV: Putting It Together
13. Assessing Students' Knowledge
Conclusion Final Thoughts and Tips for Classroom Practice
Annotated Bibliography
References
Appendix: Reproducible Charts and Forms You Can Use in Your Classroom
Part II: Grammatical Concepts Aligned with Grade 7 Common Core Language Standards
5. Using Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences
6. Using Phrases and Clauses while Recognizing and Correcting Dangling Modifiers
7. Choosing Language that Expresses Ideas Precisely and Eliminates Wordiness and Redundancy
8. Distinguishing among Connotations of Words with Similar Denotations
Part III: Grammatical Concepts Aligned with Grade 8 Common Core Language Standards
9. Explaining the Functions of Verbals
10. Forming and Using Verbs in the Active and Passive Voices