Some teachers love grammar and some hate it, but nearly all struggle to find way
s of making the mechanics of English meaningful to kids. As a middle school teac
her, Jeff Anderson also discovered that his students were not grasping the basic
s, and that it was preventing them from reaching their potential as writers. Jef
f readily admits, "I am not a grammarian, nor am I punctilious about anything,"
so he began researching and testing the ideas of scores of grammar experts in hi
s classroom, gradually finding successful ways of integrating grammar instructio
n into writer's workshop.
