Middle schoolers tend to make the same writing mistakes.  Sometimes teachers are required to change the bulletin boards in the classroom.  Solve your bulletin board problems and help students identify their writing problems with this handy print-out for bulletin boards.  This bulletin board display covers many common writing problems: subject-verb agreement, commonly misused verbs, and warning against the obnoxious stuff and things.
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Avoid the Middle School Language Traps Bulletin Board (PDF)

The definitive grammar book, the one that sat on Ernest Hemingway’s bookshelf and sparked the sentence diagramming craze of the Industrial Era, is Higher Lessons in English: A Work on English Grammar and Composition by Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg.

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Robert Hartwell Fisk, editor of the Vocabula Review, has authored a helpful little gem of a book titled The Dictionary of Disagreeable English. Have you ever wondered if you should be using “affect” or “effect?” Are you unsure of the correct spelling of “receive” or when to use the word “salubrious?” This book will tell you the answers. Fiske’s book also features a handy reference that lets you know the best dictionaries to consult to help you fine-tune your usage of the English language.
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I originally wrote this in July 2005 after attending NICS Pre-Field Orientation, a special training for NICS missionaries.  This year, for my first time, I will be facilitating discussions at this training event. If you are considering work in international Christian education, I believe reading this will help you understand the type of training that you must undertake and the challenges that you will face.
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The smallest microbes can be used to deliver or heal diseases; the slightest utterance of speech can give blessing or reveal sinister intentions; the smallest mathematical variation can yield either loses or returns in a financial portfolio; and the tiniest circuitry could revolutionize computing. As a matter of stewardship, teachers must be prepared to embed in the minds of our students an inquisitive disposition and the conviction that all of creation is God’s creation. Moreover, we must teach that how we study, use, and maintain even the most seemingly insignificant parts is a reflection of our stewardship of what God has entrusted to us.