The classroom-tested tools you need to not only engage kids in, but get them excited about, learning grammar! Divided into 4 parts -- Narrative Writing, Informational Writing, Opinion Writing, and Grammar Conversations -- this handy reference provides practical teaching tips, assessment ideas, grammar definitions, and specific mentor texts to help students learn about parts of speech, idioms, usage issues, and punctuation. Through drafting, revision, and editing exercises, as well as conversations and conferences, students will learn not only specific concepts but also how to reflect upon and transfer what they've learned to other writing tasks, across the content areas.