Teaching 9th Grade Grammar & Writing

Grammar for Writing

When your 9th-grade students really understand how and why language works, their newly acquired language skills will naturally improve their writing. This ready-to-use guide is filled with reproducible activities and instruction to give students the practice they need to remember the rules of grammar and writing.

College and Career Readiness: Writing

Prepare your 9th-grade students for the skills necessary to succeed in college and beyond with College and Career Readiness: Writing. Every lesson in this comprehensive writing program provides your class with instruction and practice in various writing tasks, including process writing, on-demand writing, and journaling. Model student essays will help your students learn to analyze, critique, and refine their own work.

Rhetorical Devices

Help your 9th-grade students shine on the written portion of any standardized test by teaching the skills they need to craft powerful, compelling arguments with Rhetorical Devices. This manual for student writers offers an in-depth study of 33 different rhetorical devices and literary techniques, including explanations of the devices, exercises on identifying and using them, and more.

Maximum Impact

If you’re ready to help your 9th-grade students become the best writers they can be, Maximum Impact is the program for you. This grammar and writing resource guides students through the process of shaping and improving their writing by maximizing the clarity, coherence, and overall effectiveness of their words, sentences, and paragraphs.

3 Simple Truths and 6 Essential Traits of Powerful Writing - Advancing

Empower your students and facilitate their progress with this writing program for 9th-grade students. Clear and achievable objectives provide immediate and ongoing feedback on how well each student is doing and what remains to be done. Instructional material and rich exercises steer students from the introduction to the mastery of each trait, making them the powerful writers they can be.

10 Days To A+ Grammar

Are you looking for quick, ready-made grammar lesson plans for the middle school classroom? Then check out 10 Days to A+ Grammar! Each guide provides you with 10 days of class material that can stand alone or reinforce your existing grammar curriculum. Detailed instructions, examples, and exercises will help you teach and reinforce new and challenging grammar rules.

Mastery of English Grammar and Mechanics

Identify and correct common grammar and mechanics problems quickly and efficiently with Mastery of Grammar and Mechanics: An Individualized Program. Twelve of the most troubling grammar areas for students, including parts of speech, subject/verb agreement, and punctuation, are clearly explained in targeted lessons with multiple practice exercises and mastery tests.

Posters

Decorate your classroom with colorful posters designed to inform your middle school students about grammar and writing rules.

Grammar Wars

This unique approach to grammar instruction will get your 9th-grade students out of their seats and vying against each other for a better understanding of language and grammar. Filled with over 175 exciting and different improvisational games, these books are a great resource to add to your bag of tricks.

Sentence Composing for High School

In this book, Don Killgallon presents rigorous writing exercises designed specifically for high school students. This workbook asks students to analyze and imitate the sentence styles of professional writers, making the sentence composing process enjoyable and challenging.

Phunny Stuph

This fun workbook introduces 100 jokes, anecdotes, and amusing urban legends, all presented with multiple grammar, spelling, and mechanical errors. Use these exercises as bell-ringers or distribute them as worksheets; your students will be eager to read the selections and fix them.