Teachers can structure supports to guide English learners to speak and write using grade-level, discipline-specific language.

An encyclopedia will often use statement sentences to present facts. Put your litter in the bin. Do not touch. Next, take a small pinch of salt and mix it all together.

As a refresher, syntax describes sentence structure—how words are arranged grammatically and what parts of speech they use.

The film follows a young student named Jimmy as he learns about sentences in school. Through various examples, he discovers the difference between telling sentences, which end with a period, and ...

Clear sentence structure depends on establishing where a sentence ends and the next one begins. Every sentence must have an independent clause. The clause is called independent when it includes a ...

Do speakers of different languages build sentence structure in the same way? In a neuroimaging study, scientists recorded the brain activity of participants listening to Dutch stories. In contrast to ...

Aim to be descriptive in your use of language. You should use imagery, sentence structure and other techniques to bring your writing to life. Pay particular attention to describing your thoughts and ...

Our brain links incoming speech sounds to knowledge of grammar, which is abstract in nature. But how does the brain encode abstract sentence structure? In a neuroimaging study published in PLOS ...