Renée Pinchero guest blogs for us this month, sharing something she wrote in the group Writing in the Trenches (WITT). WITT is a...

"Helping students achieve their literacy potential."  That's our tag line… our motto, if you will. It's on our website and is at the top...

In the world of grammar, there are two aspects of structure: form and function. (Okay, there are more than that, but these are the ones that I want to discuss here.) I know I've written about form and function before . Well, here I am again. I have so many students struggling with grammatical form the way it's being presented in schools. I've had elementary school students who are given a sentence and have to label each part of speech in the sentence. And honestly, I'm not sure why they're...