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Rooted in Language

Grammar & Mechanics Educator Class

Name: Grammar & Mechanics Educator Class
Brand: Rooted in Language
SKU: OC-GRMCH
Price: 125.0 USD
Availability: InStock

Recorded Educator Class with PDF Download

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Give your students the power to understand and apply grammatical concepts, and you’ll give them the knowledge and resources to grow their literacy skills — and their independence.

Once your students understand this functional approach to grammar, their use, skill, and appreciation will soar! Even if you are intimidated by grammar, these steps and practical tools will let you teach with confidence.

Through the Grammar & Mechanics educator class, you will:

Learn what, when, and how to teach foundational grammar skills
Utilize methods that work with all students, no matter their age or skill level, including those with language difficulties
Develop a functional approach to grammar instruction rooted in context and meaning
Implement teaching strategies that are fun, applicable, and memorable for your students
Learn and teach a meaningful sentence marking system
Support and develop your students’ reading comprehension, original writing skills, and editing skills
Become adept at identifying and manipulating grammar concepts for all levels of text

Your students will:

Develop a practical, usable, understanding of language in more ways than you ever imagined
Gain ownership over their learning by creating their own LA Binder reference pages as a guide and resource
Grow deep comprehension skills with increasingly complex reading passages with complicated syntax
Flourish as writers by gaining tools to develop clarity and depth, maturing their expressive language skills

Your students can achieve proper, effective, and ultimately elegant use of language – through you – with this class!

All Rooted in Language products incorporate research-based methods to support students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, developmental language disorders, and other literacy-based struggles.

If you teach at a school with a current RiL Grammar Bugs School License, you already have access to this educator class and do not need to purchase it separately. Contact your school administrator for access to the class through your licensed subscription.

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Specifications

File count: 1 PDF
Page count: 72 pages
Video count: 3 videos
Instructional hours: 9.5 hours of recorded instruction
Grade level: 1-12
Ongoing access to instructional videos
Embedded video timestamps to quickly and easily navigate to each instructional level
Comprehensive Instructional Plan with strategies that can be used with any text across all subject areas
Explicit demonstrations and student examples provided throughout
Educator practice sentences for immediate application of new learning
Ongoing support through Office Hours drop-in sessions
12 pages of student resources for creating LA Binder reference pages
4 page Glossary of Terms

Scope

Grammar & Mechanics focuses on explicitly teaching sentence structure, editing mechanics, and comprehension for the best reading and writing foundation. Teaching content includes strategies to help students learn, practice, and apply grammar concepts, all taught through functional usage in context, including:

Parts of a Sentence

Subjects and verbs
Types of verbs and verb tense
Direct objects, subject complements, locative complements

Sentence Mechanics

Capitalization
Basic and complex punctuation

Sentence Structures

Simple, compound, and complex sentences
Coordinating conjunctions
Subordinating conjunctions
Questions
Commands

Clauses

Independent clauses
Dependent clauses
Restrictive vs. nonrestrictive clauses
Correct comma usage

Phrases and their Functional Usage

Prepositional
Noun and verb
Verbals: participial, infinitive, and gerund
Appositives and relative phrases & clauses

All parts of speech and their functional usage

License and Terms of Use

Refer to our complete Policies & Terms of Use which provide the full terms that govern your use.
Class recordings and materials are licensed for the purchaser’s use only. The purchaser may print materials for their ongoing personal use with their own students only.
Please direct other educators to the Rooted in Language Shop to purchase the class for their own use.
We reserve the right to remove access to the instructional videos at any point, but we will provide ample warning if doing so becomes necessary.
For charters, schools, and districts purchasing on behalf of enrolled families: Click the Help Chatbot in the lower right corner of your screen for Website Order and Purchase Order procedures. Our classes are the property of your enrolled family, the home educator. A separate purchase must be made for each home educator using this class. Our classes may not be shared in lending libraries. Our class access may not be provided to multiple home educators without a purchased license for each home educator. A home educator is defined as a parent or legal guardian who is teaching their own children and the children for whom they have legal guardianship. For more information, see our FAQs and complete Policies & Terms of Use.
School group pricing: If your school has three or more classroom teachers, tutors, or interventionists who would benefit from the professional development provided by this educator class, contact us for group pricing. A school is defined as a single, physical location with one or more administrators and employed or volunteer educators whose primary duty is to instruct students in groups at that location. A classroom teacher is defined as a school employee or volunteer whose primary duty is to instruct students in groups at that school.A school tutor or interventionist is defined as a school employee or volunteer whose primary duty is to provide literacy support for students at that school.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who should take this class?

Every homeschool educator, tutor, and classroom teacher who wishes to engage their students in fun and functional grammar instruction will benefit from this class. Through deep learning with meaningful practice, you will grow your students’ reading comprehension, writing, and editing skills.

Note: If you teach at a school with a current RiL Grammar Bugs School License, you already have access to this class and do not need to purchase it separately. Contact your school administrator for access to the class through your licensed subscription.

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What age and skill levels do the strategies in this class support?

The Grammar & Mechanics class is designed for educators working with students who have at least acquired basic reading and writing skills (students must be able to read and write basic sentences). Age-appropriate concepts included in this class are taught to younger students (K-2) in our Pinwheels and Wand programs, as well as Grammar Bugs 1: Sentence Types. Early and repeated exposure to basic grammar concepts deepens comprehension skills in growing readers and writers.

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Will the Grammar & Mechanics class help my student who struggles?

Yes. The content taught in this class is useful for teaching any student at any age or skill level, including students with dyslexia, dysgraphia, and developmental language delays. For students with language delays, weak syntax and vocabulary are the two most likely areas of weakness, according to the research. This program follows a functional approach to teaching grammar, using evidence-based therapeutic strategies from the field of Speech-Language therapy.

For students with dyslexia and dysgraphia, their weak reading and writing skills interrupt their ability to coordinate all the areas of literacy needed for successful reading comprehension and writing composition — including grammar! Using the strategies taught in this class, you will help students who struggle by teaching grammar explicitly and systematically, in a way that is functional — impacting their spelling, writing composition and mechanics, and reading comprehension.

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Rather than watch the entire class upfront, can I use the material right away?

Yes. If preferred, you can stop the video after each new concept and put your new learning into practice with your students before resuming the training. You also have ongoing access to the instructional videos and can review concepts previously watched.

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What are Rooted in Language educator training classes and why do I need them?

All language arts studies rely on complex underlying language skills. Success in reading and writing requires explicit teaching strategies that cross these intertwined skill areas. In our educator training classes, we teach you methods that are effective, research-based, and supportive of all students, especially those with learning difficulties.

We provide and demonstrate deep learning strategies for the specified content area in each of our classes, so you know what to teach and how to teach it, across all age and learning levels.

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Do you offer a Certificate of Completion for continuing education?

Yes. After finishing the class, please contact us to request a Certificate of Completion. Rooted in Language will, in turn, deliver a downloadable Certificate of Completion to you within 5 business days. Your Certificate can be submitted for CEU’s; however, acceptance is subject to each governing body’s rules and approval.

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For schools or classroom teachers: We have several teachers in our school who need to take the Grammar & Mechanics class? Do you offer group pricing?

We would love for all your classroom teachers to benefit from the professional development that the Grammar & Mechanics class provides. If you have 2 or more teachers in your school who will be taking the class, consider our Grammar Bugs School License, which includes a 1-year license for the complete Grammar Bugs program and the Grammar & Mechanics educator class. The school license provides the best value, making these resources available to all the teachers in a single school location. Annual renewal is available at a discounted price.

I’m revamping the way we do grammar in our home with the help of RiLs strategies. During our first lesson, the kids (5th and 7th) told me that we should have always done grammar this way. I mean, it took me only 7 homeschool years to finally get it.

Wow!! The content I learned through the Grammar & Mechanics course was inspiring and tangible. The Rooted in Language staff clearly explained the importance grammar plays in writing, reading comprehension, and editing. This is the best professional development I have encountered.

Grammar taught by Rooted in Language is taught functionally. I never realized why we needed to know and understand grammar until I took this class. Grammar moves way beyond just writing a sentence properly. As kids get older, they will start reading books with longer and more complicated sentences. Kids with weak syntax abilities won't understand the sentence or passage. I had never even heard of this but after taking the class, I saw it in action fully. I even tested some of the techniques out with my own kids and saw first-hand the gaps in their current foundation. When kids incorporate functional grammar techniques in their learning activities, they quickly become very capable of both reading challenging sentences and passages along with creating more interesting and engaging writing.

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