What are coordinate conjunctions?
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It’s time to explore coordinate conjunctions and how to use them in a sentence. Are you ready? Let’s get started in this week’s Shurley English Two-Minute Tip.
Read MoreWelcome to the Shurley English Blog! For the past thirty-five years, our mission at Shurley Instructional Materials has been simple. We do all we can to help teachers and students experience grammar and writing success. With that goal in mind, we wanted to create a space where our team of educators could share tips, tricks, and techniques to ignite learning. It’s all about educators helping educators on the Shurley English Blog. We invite you to join the conversation!
What is microcomprehension?
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I read some information today about what’s missing in reading comprehension instruction, and the research that was provided jumped off of the page for me! I had to get used to some new terminology, but it all made perfect sense!
The article stated that the latest research in early literacy found that there is an extra step between decoding and comprehension that most of us don’t know about. They even had a name for the missing skill: microcomprehension.
In a nutshell, microcomprehension is
Read MoreWhat is an analogy?
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What is an analogy? We are here to help you unravel the mystery as we introduce you to the 10 types of analogy relationships in this week’s Two-Minute Tip. Let’s get started!
Read MoreRevision Activity: The Mover and Shaker Sentence
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One of my favorite things to do is to play with words. I love to figure out how to turn a phrase in just the right way to make my meaning clear. That’s my goal for all students so that they can master the language and control it. Being able to manipulate language to fulfill your own purposes for communication is, in my opinion, an endeavor worth pursuing.
One of the features of
Read MoreFREE Grammar Jingles from Shurley English
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If you’re ready to learn English definitions in a fun and easy way, Shurley English Jingles are for you! Using domain-specific language, our definitions for the parts of speech and many other important language arts concepts incorporate rhythm, rhyme, and movement. Jingles provide the tools for critical thinking during sentence analysis and writing.
Our multi-sensory approach provides an active, hands-on learning environment in which kids truly understand and retain language arts skills for a lifetime. (We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again. Jingles are an extremely effective way to learn information!) We invite you to incorporate Jingle Time into your ELA studies today! Getting started is easy…
Read MoreWriting Extension: A Valentine's Day Haiku
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Need a new idea to get the creative juices flowing in your classroom?
The Haiku offers that opportunity to your students by channeling their creativity into this unique form of Japanese poetry.
Here is a great lesson plan to get you started. (By the way, you can find this lesson, along with many others, in the Unit Studies Section of your Shurley English book!)
Read MoreWhat are interjections?
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Interjections are one of the eight parts of speech, but do you know how to use them in your writing? Let's take a closer look in this week's Two-Minute Tip!
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