Question

What would a good teaching strategy be for language arts in a grade 1 classroom and a grade 8 classroom?

Answer 1

Language arts is such a broad subject, you need to first determine the goals and objectives of your lesson. Then figure out the best way of involving your students in their learning.

Answer 2

Lets say my lesson was on sentence structure for a grade 1 class, what would be a good strategy to get them to understand that?

Answer 3

I assume that you want the children to learn about complete sentences.

First, demonstrate complete sentences. Show them incomplete sentences and encourage them to finish the sentence. Examples:
The dog wagged . . .
Susie . . .
. . . ran around the block

Then, give each pupil an envelope with 6 or so words on separate cards in it. Each set of words, when put together correctly, forms a complete sentence. After they've arranged the word cards correctly, they put the cards back in the envelope and exchange with a neighbor.