Your grandma, sitting in class 60 or 70 years ago…
She’s trying to keep her eyes open. The teacher just spent 15 minutes talking about grammar rules and all the places you should and shouldn’t use commas.
And now your poor grandma is supposed to be adding commas into sentences on a worksheet, but she keeps nodding off.
There are so many sentences, and there are so many rules to try to remember, and it is all sooo boring!
And when you look around the room, you see that it’s not just your granny. Every kid in the class has the same glassy-eyed look. It’s like they’ve been turned into “grammar zombies”!
Flash forward to today, and it looks the same in many ways.
She’s trying to keep her eyes open. The teacher just spent 15 minutes talking about grammar rules and all the places you should and shouldn’t use commas.
And now your poor grandma is supposed to be adding commas into sentences on a worksheet, but she keeps nodding off.
There are so many sentences, and there are so many rules to try to remember, and it is all sooo boring!
And when you look around the room, you see that it’s not just your granny. Every kid in the class has the same glassy-eyed look. It’s like they’ve been turned into “grammar zombies”!
Flash forward to today, and it looks the same in many ways.

The good news? Grammar doesn’t have to be taught that way. In fact there’s…
- A way to teach grammar that’s joyful, playful, and student-centered.
- An approach that’s driven by curiosity, where students act like “language scientists,” theorizing about and researching how language works.
- An approach that not only teaches kids how grammar works, but also translates into their writing. (YAY!)