Reflection on Grammar Project

Studying modifiers for my grammar blog has been very beneficial for me.  I have personally learned more about modifiers in grammar.  However, I have also gained some ideas of how to teach modifiers to students in my elementary school classroom.

Learning about adjectival and adverbial clauses/phrases was the newest learning for myself.  As I mentioned in posts above, I have been using them and even demonstrating them in class, but never knew this is what they were called.  Using the clauses and phrases I feel is going to be a great way to push students with their writing.  Instead of just describing a character, a setting, etc. in one word they will be able to describe using phrases and clauses.  This will be especially helpful when teaching English Language Learners.  I can encourage them to speak in sentences.  This will help with their English language development.

A dangling modifier was another new term for me during this study of modifiers.  Dangling modifiers seemed very important to me.  I feel that sometimes my students and even myself when trying to change wording around when writing errors can happen in this area.  It is so important that I pay close attention to what I am writing.  If I do not I may not be conveying meaning in the proper way.  

I really feel that I am more comfortable with modifiers now than I was previously.  I feel more confident when I need to teach students about modifiers.  I found some great teaching tools for modifiers.  I found videos, visuals, and examples for students in my classroom.  When I researched about common mistakes with modifiers I feel that helped me prepare for misconceptions that students may have.  Having these possible misconceptions in mind will help me prepare my lessons for my students.