Incorporating effective grammar instruction into the classroom

 

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VIII. Recommendations 
 
I recommend that teachers and schools move away from teaching grammar instruction in 
the traditional way and move towards teaching grammar in the context of reading and writing. I 
further recommend that every teacher that is expected to teach students how to write investigate 
the research for themselves and use the resources out there to develop lessons aligned with an 
incorporated approach to teaching grammar that attends to individual needs in student writing.
 
IX. Summary/Closure 
 
In summary, relevant research on the teaching of grammar has shown that traditional 
grammar instruction focused on memorization and isolated drills is not effective at helping 
students learn grammar and improve their writing skills. Instead, teaching grammar in context is 
much more effective. Teaching grammar in context involves immersing students in authentic 
reading and writing opportunities, teaching grammatical concepts through brief mini-lessons, and 
showing applied grammatical concepts in real life. It also involves teachers focusing on the 
individual grammar needs of their students, along with re-conceptualizing their thoughts about 
student errors in writing. Teachers need to stop seeing grammar instruction as an error hunt and 
instead discover the underlying reasons for different errors and support students in fixing these 
errors and eliminating them from their future writing. There are many strategies out there for 
teachers to use to teach grammar in context, so teachers are not alone in this endeavor. If 
educators teach grammar in context, their students will become better writers and will be more 
motivated to write.
 

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