Why Grammar Matters
The "Science of Reading" needs as much joy of discovery and experimentation as the science of anything else we teach in school.
(originally published at www.Achieve3000.com in 2021)
What we know about learning (what we’ve known at least since the National Research Council’s, How People Learn) is that when information is contextualized, it is understood and remembered better. We can memorize lists of discrete things, like vocabulary words, multiplication tables, or rules of gramma…
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