Another Great Article on Grammar

The Wrong Way to Teach Grammar

EXCERPT:

"Happily, there are solutions. Just as we teach children how to ride bikes by putting them on a bicycle, we need to teach students how to write grammatically by letting them write. Once students get ideas they care about onto the page, they are ready for instruction—including grammar instruction—that will help communicate those ideas... students immediately apply to their own writing, and having students play with sentences like Legos, combining basic sentences into more complex ones. Often, surprisingly little formal grammar instruction is needed.... many errors “disappear” from student writing when students focus on their ideas and stop “trying to ‘sound correct.’”"

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2014/02/the-wrong-way-to-teach-grammar/284014/