Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was overhauled to include the “explicit teaching of grammar, sentence structure and punctuation in high school”.

The authors describe a districtwide revision of grammar teaching practices. Using a curriculum based largely on the work of Martha Kolln, the authors show how they applied rhetorical tools in a ...

In Australia, the motivation for teachers to expand grammatical expertise has been sharpened by the introduction of the Australian Curriculum: English, with its requirement to teach "the structures ...