Help your students improve their language skills and become stronger readers and writers‎.‎ In this timely book‎,‎ literacy experts Amy Benjamin and Barbara Golub offer best practices for fortifying the writer‎'‎s workshop model with meaningful‎,‎ relevant instruction in grammar‎.‎ The book answers questions such as‎.‎‎.‎‎.‎* What does a writer‎'‎s workshop look like and how does it fit into balanced literacy models‎?‎ How does grammar fit into a writer‎'‎s workshop‎?‎ * How can you use natural language acquisition to transition children from non‎-Standard to Standard English patterns‎?‎ * How can you teach students to identify a complete sentence‎?‎ * What are effective ways to teach parts of speech‎?‎ * How can you build on nouns and verbs to teach adjectives‎,‎ adverbs‎,‎ prepositional phrases‎,‎ and dependent clauses‎?‎ In each chapter‎,‎ you‎'‎ll find out exactly what teaching the targeted concept looks like in a workshop classroom‎.‎ Examples are provided for different grade levels and can be adapted as necessary to meet your needs‎.‎ This book is a No‎-Worksheet Zone‎.‎ You‎'‎ll learnhow to present grammar using authentic text and talk‎,‎ leading to more durable learning‎.‎