Methods of Teaching Macfadyen (2015)

Grammar
  Appeared in 19th century
 older forms of teaching

Diagramming grammar
 involves visually mapping the

Sentences
structures of and relationships
between different aspects of a
sentence
 Basic Rules

 Identify the sentence elements

 Place the subject, verb and direct object together and
underline them
 Separate the subject from the verb with a vertical line
that crosses the underline
 Separate the object from the verb with a vertical line that
does NOT cross the underline
 Keep adjectives and articles with the noun they modify,
and place them on separate diagonal lines touching the
word they modify
  This method encourage

Learning
students to explore language
through creative writing and
reading, picking up correct

Through grammar usage along the way.

 Part of the Writing Across the

Writing Curriculum (WAC)

 This method often used by

(Writing to learn) numbers of universities world
wide
Generally, writing-to-learn activities are short, impromptu or
otherwise informal and low-stakes writing tasks that help
students think through key concepts or ideas presented in a
course. Often, these writing tasks are limited to less than
five minutes of class time or are assigned as brief, out-of-
class assignments.
Theoreticians and practitioners alike
agree that writing promotes both
critical thinking and learning (See
Adams, 1973; Applebee, 1985; Britton
et al., 1975; Bruner,1975; Emig,1977;
Herrington, 1981; Odell,1980; and
Parker, 1985
Writing to communicate—or what
James Britton calls "transactional
writing"—means writing to accomplish
something, to inform, instruct, or
persuade.... Writing to learn is
different. We write to ourselves as well
as talk with others to objectify our
perceptions of reality; the primary
function of this "expressive" language
is not to communicate, but to order and
represent experience to our own
understanding. In this sense language
provides us with a unique way of
knowing and becomes a tool for
discovering, for shaping meaning, and
for reaching understanding.
We can only see a SHORT distance ahead,
but we can see
PLENTY
there that needs to be done.

Alan Turing – British Computer Scientist

If you are always trying to be normal,
you will never know how

AMAZING
you can be.

Maya Angelou – American Poet

 If you can't fly, then RUN.
If you can't run, then WALK.
If you can't walk, then CRAWL.
But whatever you do,
YOU HAVE TO KEEP MOVING.

Martin Luther King, Jr. – Civil Rights Activist and Pastor

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