Does It Really Matter? The Impact of Pronoun Use on Reading Comprehension and Perceived Passage Quality with an Adolescent Population
By Marisa Sara Rosen
Many times I wondered why I had not been taught grammar earlier, like my friends who attended private schools. Why was it that my brother and my friends in the city spent so much time on direct grammar instruction, while my school and so many other public institutions considered it a non-priority? For that matter, why did our superintendent insist on calling primary schools, “elementary schools” rather than “grammar schools”? There was a distinct philosophical reason at work.