May

14

How cool is this? Grammar Girl

Filed Under English 

You can never have too much technology or too much teaching in your classroom. Why not combine them in your English classroom in the form of a podcast?

I just discovered a really wonderful site, Grammar Girl, where Mignon Fogarty holds forth in her podcast on all sorts of interesting and often obscure points of grammar. The episode for May 1 is on Yoda’s grammar and sentence construction, while some other episodes have dealt with topics like spoonerisms or the more mundane run-on sentences.

Fogarty is easy to listen to and pretty clear in her explanations. If you’re not clear in your own mind on a point of grammar, she seem to me to be an excellent resource. She’s also easy enough to understand that you should be able to download an mp3 of her podcast and play it for most high school classes.

The topics also seem to be mixed enough - the mundane and the offbeat together - that I’m likely to become a regular listener of Grammar Girl.

(Crossposted from TeachEng.us.)

Comments

Leave a Reply