Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics High School is a full-year digital and printable program with plenty of remedial practice to help your students catch up while they keep up with grade-level standards. The resources feature 64, twice-per-week, 30-minute, no prep grammar, usage, and mechanics lessons in print or interactive Google slides (with a problem-solving secret agent theme).

Lessons are set up as Cornell Notes and provide mentor text and response activities, simple sentence diagrams, guided practice, graphic organizers, and sentence dictations.

Biweekly tests in Google self-correcting Google forms or print and a final exam.

Plus, remedial worksheets (each with a formative assessment) target skill deficits determined by the diagnostic assessment in self-correcting Google forms or print.

All program components are digital downloads (no print books).

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Instructional Sequence (Grade-level CCSS Anchor Standards for Language and Language Strand Progressive Skills Review)

1. The i before e Spelling Rule and Proper Nouns Review
2. The Final y Spelling Rule and Common Nouns Review
3. The Silent e Spelling Rule and Pronouns Review
4. The Double the Consonant Spelling Rule and Adjectives Review
5. The Ending “an” or “en” Spelling Rule and Verbs Review
6. The “able” or “ible” Spelling Rule and Adverbs Review
7. The Ending “ion” Spelling Rule and Conjunctions Review
8. The Plurals Spelling Rule and Prepositions Review
9. Proper Nouns and Common Nouns and Periods in Latin Expressions
10. Personal Pronouns and Periods in Names, Abbreviations, and Acronyms
11. Subject (Nominative) Case Pronouns and Periods in Indirect Questions and Intentional Fragments
12. Object Case Pronouns and Periods in Decimal Outlines
13. Possessive Case Pronouns and Semicolons with Conjunctions
14. Adjectives and Apostrophes for Singular Possessive Nouns
15. Verbs *Subject-Verb Agreement and Apostrophes for Plural Possessive Nouns
16. Adverbs and Apostrophes for Apostrophes for Possessive Compound Nouns and Possessive Subjects and Objects
17. Coordinating Conjunctions and Apostrophes in Contractions
18. Correlative Conjunctions and Commas for Geographical Places
19. Subordinating Conjunctions and Commas for Dates
20. Prepositions and Commas for Letters
21. Subjects and Predicates and Commas in Addresses
22. Direct and Indirect Objects and Commas for Names
23. Phrases and Clauses and Commas between Adjectives
24. *Complete Sentences, Fragments, and Run-ons and Commas for Tag Questions
25. Simple, Compound, Complex, and Compound-Complex Sentences and Commas for Direct Speech
26. Types of Sentences and Commas in a Series
27. *Noun Phrases and Commas after Introductory Words and Phrases
28. *Noun Clauses and after Introductory Clauses
29. Gerunds and Commas and Quotation Marks with Speaker Tags
30. Gerund Phrases and Commas before Conjunctions in Compound Sentences
31. Reflexive, Intensive, and Reciprocal Pronouns and Commas in Complex Sentences
32. Indefinite Pronouns and Commas with Parenthetical Expressions
33. *Pronoun Antecedents and Commas with Coordinate Adjectives
34. *Pronoun Number and Person Shifts and Commas with Hierarchical Adjectives
35. Demonstrative Pronouns and *Vague Pronoun References and Commas with Appositives
36. Nonrestrictive *Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns and Punctuation in Restrictive Clauses
37. Restrictive *Adjective Clauses and Relative Pronouns and Punctuation with Relative Pronouns
38. Predicate Adjectives and *Adjectival Phrases and Dialogue and Direct Quotations
39. Past Participles and Punctuation of Direct Quotations
40. Past Participial Phrases and Ellipses
41. Present Participles and Quotations within Quotations
42. Present Participial Phrases and Punctuation of Non-standard Usage Quotations
43. Comparative Modifiers and In-text Citations and Indirect Quotations
44. Superlative Modifiers and MLA Works Cited Page
45. *Misplaced Modifiers and Italics and Underlining: Book, Website, Newspaper, and Magazine Titles
46. *Dangling Modifiers and Italics and Underlining: Play, Television Show, Movie, and Works of Art Titles
47. *Squinting Modifiers and Quotation Marks: Song, Poem, and Book Titles
48. *Verb Phrases and Quotation Marks: Newspaper, Magazine, and Blog Article Titles
49. *Shifts in Verb Tense and Quotation Marks: Short Story and Document Titles
50. Progressive Verb Forms and Capitalization of Named People, Places, Things, and Products
51. Perfect Verb Forms and Capitalization of Titles 
52. Infinitives and Capitalization of Holidays and Dates
53. Indicative Mood and Capitalization Special Events and Historical Periods
54. Imperative Mood and Capitalization Organizations and Businesses
55. Interrogative Mood and Capitalization of Languages and People Groups
56. Conditional Mood and Question Marks
57. Subjunctive Mood and Exclamation Points
58. Verb Voice and Mood Shifts and Colons to Introduce Long Direct Quotations
59. Subordinating Conjunctions and *Adverbial Clauses and Parentheses
60. Relative Adverbs and *Adverbial Clauses and Dashes
61. Adverb Order and Brackets
62. *Non-standard English Deletions and Hyphens
63. *Non-standard English Additions and Slashes
64. *Non-standard English Substitutions and Numbers

*Denotes Progressive Language Skill.

No other grammar and mechanics curriculum matches the comprehensive resources of Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics (High School). You can teach rigorous grade-level standards and also individualize instruction.

Connected Programs

Pennington Publishing also provides Grades 4, 5, 6, 7, and 8 Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics programs. Additionally, teachers can save time grading and provide better writing feedback with the author's e-Comments Chrome Extension. This app includes hundreds of canned writing comments with the same language of instruction as Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics and the companion program, Teaching Essay Strategies. Now, that's a seamless connection to teach and practice grammar and mechanics in the writing context!

The e-Comments program includes four insertable comment banks (Grades 3‒6, Grades 6‒9, Grades 9‒12, and College/Workplace) feature writing format and citations, essay and story structure, essay and story content analysis, sentence formation and writing style, word choice, grammar, and mechanics. 

When you open a student's doc or slide, the e-Comments menu pops-up in the right margin. Simply highlight a writing issue in the student's text and click on a comment button. The comment automatically appears in the margin next to the student's text.

FAQs:

Would all my students need this program? No, just the teacher. The e-Comments program syncs to multiple devices and saves to the cloud.

Can I edit these e-comments? Yes, they are customizable.

Can I add, format, and save my own custom writing comments and add my own writing categories for different classes and assignments to the e-Comment menu? Yes.

Can I record audio comments? Yes.

Can I record video comments? Yes, just make sure your hair isn’t out of place.

Can I use speech to text? Yes, save time typing personalized comment additions.

Will the program work in Google Classroom? Yes.

Do I have to pay each month or each year for the license? No, it's a low, one-time fee for full access. Purchase an individual or group license.

I'm not tech proficient. Is e-Comments easy to use? Yes. The one-page Quick Start User Guide and video tutorial will get you grading or editing in just minutes. No time-consuming and complicated multiple clicks, dropdown menus, or comment codes. This program is intuitive and user-friendly.

Buy your grade-level Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics program now, and then navigate to the Chrome Web Store to purchase or add the free trial of the e-Comments Chrome Extension.