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KISS Grammar (You'll Love It)
| Note: If you are interested in
KISS grammar itself, you will probably find it more productive to 1) go
to the Introduction to the KISS Grammar Workbooks,
2) read
Teaching Grammar as a Liberating
Art (which is also free and on-line), or 3) start at the KISS
Home Page. This manuscript was written at the invitation of NCTE, was
intended to address problems specific to NCTE, and was limited in scope
by NCTE's editor. I have placed it on the web simply so that readers interested
in NCTE's problems with grammar can have it as a background for this discussion
of NCTE's reviewers' comments. |
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: The Research
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Problem with Teaching "Grammar"
-- The Wrong Approach
Chapter 2. Research on the Teaching of Grammar
Chapter 3. Research on Natural Syntactic Development
Part Two: Theory
Introduction
Chapter 4 Grammar in Motion -- A Psycholinguistic
Model
Chapter 5 What Should we Teach? A Pedagogical
Descriptive Grammar -- KISS
Chapter 6 When Should We Teach It? The Ideal
KISS Curriculum -- Integrating Instruction with Natural Syntactic Development
Part Three: Practice (The Wide World of Sports)
Introduction
Chapter 7. Recognition Exercises
Chapter 8. Expansion Exercises
Chapter 9. Exercises for writing, Logic, and
Style
Part Four: The KISS Approach
Introduction
Chapter 10. An Introduction to the KISS Approach
Chapter 11. Using the KISS Approach
Chapter 12. KISS Level One: Prepositional Phrases;
Adjectives and Adverbs
Chapter 13. KISS Level Two: Adding Subjects,
Verbs, and Complements
Chapter 14. KISS Level Three: Adding Clauses
-- Subordinate and Main
Chapter 15. KISS Level Four: Adding Verbals
-- Gerunds, Gerundives, and Infinitives
Chapter 16. KISS Level Five: Adding Eight Additional
Constructions
Commencement? -- An Invitation to the KISS
Web Site
Appendix -- The Aluminum Passage
Bibliography
NCTE's Response
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