Thank you for visiting our Tennessee Board of Regents OER Grant English 1020: Introduction to Literature course. The pilot launched in spring 2023. This Walters State Community College composition course focuses on reading and analyzing poetry, drama, and short stories. The course has been designed with Quality Matters standards, Universal Design for Learning concepts, Growth Mindset fundamentals, and Lumen Circles concepts.     

This is an an online, mobile-friendly, digital language-learning grammar game collection for students of French created by Sonja Burrows and Brigitte Humbert at Middlebury College. It is a playful learning space, free and open to the public, where one can drop by anytime and from anywhere.
The games on the site are divided into three sections:
•Sentence Whiz, where users can practice questions, negations, relative pronouns, active and passive voice, and more structures.
•Word Nerd, where users can use nouns, adjectives, adverbs, pronouns, possessives, prepositions as well as additional parts of speech.
•Verb Challenge, where users can master past, present, and future verb tenses as well as tackle conditional, subjunctive, imperatives, and infinitives.
In addition, a guide for the learning space supports users who do not know where to begin or who would like to complete games in an established or recommended path. A resources area allows users to access explanations of grammar and, in some sections, traditional grammar exercises which support the games. Relevant sections of the resources area are linked to games which treat the same grammar points, so that users who complete a game and seek more practice or grammar explanations can easily find that needed support. A navigation and filtering system also allows users to select games which only treat a certain grammar point.

This Lesson One is based on the South Carolina Department of Education ELA Standards and the Grammar and Conventions Matrix for eighth grade.  It does have a video and handout from PBS LearningMedia which both give permission to be streamed, downloaded, shared, and modified for educational use,  The full credit for both are listed within this lesson plan, and they should always be given full credit if used with this lesson.  The video includes captions for the audio.This lesson focuses on understanding active and passive verb voice and how to avoid inappropriate shift of voice within clauses of a single sentence. There are group activities for Think-Pair-Share during classroom instruction, as well as individual worksheets that will be graded for completion, not accuracy.  This is more for the teacher to determine if there are trends, additional scaffolding needed, or any reteaching before moving forward in the Grammar and Conventions unit.It concludes with a formal writing assessment that will allow the teacher to see how students mastered using active and passive verb voice, as wel as avoiding inappropriate shift of voice within a sentence. 

FREE grammar program that can be used to teach and develop many important grammar skills.

This course has been designed to enable you to focus your learning on specific areas of improvement. Unlike a typical college course where you would complete lessons in chronological order, this course allows you to focus on just specific skills. Modules include: Grammer, Pre Writing, and Writing

This guide is intended to provide a starting point for you to approach the teaching of writing in your classroom. Good writing will generally feature a mix of sentence types, all of which are structured and punctuated correctly. It is important to note that the choice and mix of sentences in a text should be informed by an understanding of
the purpose and audience for the writing. The choice of sentence types may also be influenced by the genre of the writing, which will be informed by the curriculum area for which it is being produced. This is why writing needs to be taught explicitly and systematically, across all year levels and subjects, beginning with the essential
foundation of sentences.