But simple sentences don’t need a semicolon; for example, “He brought the ice cream, I brought the sprinkles, and Jenny brought the chocolate sauce.” Subject-verb agreement: I know this one sounds very elementary school-ish, but it’s a common grammar mistake even amo...
This is the stuff we were taught—perhaps not very well, admittedly—in elementary, middle, and high school. (I’m old. I got it in every grade, from first through twelfth.) And, to be honest, knowing this level of grammar/syntax is enough to be a good editor, especially when you...
My experience is in elementary, but I’m thinking if you’re seeing kids are engaged and the practice they’re getting from the bellringer activities is transferring into daily school work, then it seems like they’d work well as a kind of retrieval practice. However, if kids are doing we...