Grammar Workshops

Instead of using worksheets or textbook exercises, teach grammar with multi-sensory, student-engaging activities. This workshop equips teachers to incorporate a dynamic worksheet-free approach to grammar instruction. Anchor lessons, interactive grammar charts, and daily learning routines are used to teach about parts of speech, kinds of sentences, writing conventions, and sentence fluency. Target grades: 3-7. Read More

A day of instructional activities and skill strategies to improve revising and editing skills! Use applied grammar as a tool for revising and editing. Experience practical activities for sentence combining. Examine revision strategies. And review grammatical structures. Sentence work will focus on coordination, subordination, reduction, and apposition. Target grades: 4-12. Read More

Instructional strategies address multi-sensory and learning styles as students act out parts of speech, rules of grammar, and functions of sentence elements. Parsing, an old strategy with a new twist, provides for quick and easy grammar reviews. Diagramming is used as a visual map during sentence analysis and composition. A question guide enables students to effectively elaborate sentences through the appropriate use of modifiers and through structural changes in the sentence. Target grades: 1-5. Read More

Do not think about right or wrong; just play with sentences. Zoom-in and zoom-out, creating long flowing sentences or very short skeleton sentences. Use puppets, sentence codes, and drama to understand the different kinds of sentences–those based on purpose (declarative, interrogative, etc.) and those based on clause structures (simple, compound, etc.). Use sentences from author’s as models. Target grades: K-6. Read More

Give old-fashioned sentence diagramming a new twist as a visual tool to improve writing. Use graphic symbols–hearts on verbs, stars on conjunctions, pins on prepositions–to identify sentence elements and to understand how they work in a sentence. Use line diagrams to prescribe sentences or to analyze sentences. Great ideas for mini-lessons for writers’ workshop. Target grades: 3-7. Read More

If your district or school is interested in scheduling professional development with N.I.N.E. Enterprises, please contact us; call 1-800-791-8962 or email at johnny@nine-enterprises.com.

WHY SHOULD YOU BRING A WORKSHOP TO YOUR DISTRICT?

• It is a great team building event
• Training is individualized to your unique situation
• Scheduling is customized for your convenience
• Minimize teacher time out of the classroom

IS ON-SITE TRAINING EXPENSIVE?

• Dynamic staff training at your location at a very reasonable price
• Valuable training that costs less than the consumable workbooks it makes unnecessary
• Eliminate the cost time and travel with on-site training

HOW MUCH TIME IS NEEDED FOR THE TRAINING?

• Most trainings are one- or two-day events with opportunities for follow-through inservices
• Customize the schedule to meet your needs
• To some extent, one could say that our training schedules are made-to-order. We work closely with the host school or district scheduling to meet their calendar needs.

WHAT TRAINING MATERIALS WILL BE NEEDED?

• Purchase only what you need
• Costs for teacher materials vary per training event.
• Teacher materials are put together in packages. However, you may choose to purchase item by item, mix and match as you see fit.
• View teacher materials in our STORE

WHO DO I CONTACT TO SCHEDULE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT?

Training events are arranged with Alice Nine; call 1-800-791-8962 or email at alice@nine-enterprises.com. Visit our CALENDAR for scheduled events.