Patty McGee is an author-educator and consultant. She is the author of Feedback that Moves Writers Forward (Corwin 2017), Writer’s Workshop Made Simple, and Grammar Units of Study (both Benchmark 2021).
Patty McGee offers strategies to intentionally help students transfer their grammar knowledge to authentic writing experiences in this final installment of the Not Your Granny’s Grammar series.
Grammar manipulatives create a helpful scaffold to allow students a chance to play and practice, leading to a greater likelihood of transferring skills to their writing. Patty McGee shares a few ideas for grammar manipulatives.
Patty McGee positions us to consider a fresh approach to grammar instruction in this first installment of a three-part series.
Patty McGee pays attention to how students work as writers to find the teaching points for how to learn to work as writing partners.