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Creative Grammar for Creative Teachers, The Controversy - Coggle Diagram
Creative Grammar for Creative Teachers
The Controversy
Two types of grammar knowledge
Tacit
Experience with grammar rules as first language
Acquired through social interaction/contextual experience
Explicit
Taught rules of grammar
Builds understanding that writing and speaking are different
Allows for CHOICE
"And out of the mists came a figure in flowing green walking across the water"
"And a figure in flowing green came walking across the water out of the mists"
= meaningful connections
How to Teach it?
LEAD
LINK: between grammar taught and how it works in writing
EXAMPLES: Show examples, not lengthy explanation
AUTHENTIC TEXTS: as models and links to broad community of writers
DISCUSSION: build in dialogic discussion about grammar and its effects
Destroys creativity
Allows for choice and mastery of language