Date Approved
7-19-2023
Graduate Degree Type
Project
Degree Name
Education-Literacy Studies: Reading (M.Ed.)
Degree Program
Teacher Education
First Advisor
Elizabeth Stolle
Academic Year
2022/2023
Abstract
Available research indicates that American students are underperforming in the area of writing. Grammar is the foundation of the English language, so it follows that an understanding of the language system is inherent in the act of writing. Grammar instruction, however, has been largely absent from American ELA classrooms for the past half century. This project examines the research which supports grammar instruction as part of the writing process and synthesizes the most promising research findings into a writing unit for 11th and 12th grade students. This unit includes a genre-based framework for instruction, directed writing, sentence combining, and instructional methods and resources to build students’ metalanguage to articulate their understanding of grammatical choices and their effect on a text’s rhetorical purpose.
ScholarWorks Citation
Scheu-Millek, Erika, "Grammar Instruction Embedded Within Writing Instruction in the Secondary ELA Classroom" (2023). Culminating Experience Projects. 337.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/gradprojects/337
