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Episode 398: Why Students Don't Apply Grammar in Their Writing — And How to Fix It Part 2

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Teaching Middle School ELA
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Mar 26, 2026
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Summary

Today's episode is Part 2 of Episode 397. Your students can label sentence types on a worksheet, crush the grammar game, and still hand in an essay packed with run-ons and fragments. That disconnect is not laziness. It is transfer, and it is one of the biggest pain points in middle school ELA. Today we talk about the moment teachers care about most: when grammar moves off the quiz and into real student writing. We break down the third pillar of the EB Grammar Framework, application to writ...