After Reed and Kellogg published their book, the practice of diagramming sentences had something of a Golden Age in American schools. "It was a purely American phenomenon," Burns Florey says.

Diagramming Sentences Kitty Burns Florey explores a lost art in Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog, ... the practice has fallen out of favor. Florey talks with Scott Simon about the book.

Kudos to Gaithersburg High School English teacher Robyn Jackson and all of her colleagues for their efforts to teach sentence diagramming ["Putting Grammar Lessons on the Line; Students' Writing ...

It’s no wonder that sentence diagrams have made their way into art. Here are 6 creative uses of sentence diagramming. 1. Our Own Effort (Proust) Click to enlarge.

I read an article last month about the lost art of diagramming sentences, a once-required skill that many American children had to master if they wanted to pass English back in the mid-20th century.

Anyone who believes diagramming sentences will make students better writers needs to look at history, writes Edgar H. Schuster, author and English teacher. No, Virginia, Diagramming Will Not ...

Sentence diagramming is pretty old school: It became popular in classrooms sometime after 1877, when Alonzo Reed and Brainerd Kellogg published their book, Higher Lessons in English.The technique ...

After Reed and Kellogg published their book, the practice of diagramming sentences had something of a Golden Age in American schools. "It was a purely American phenomenon," Burns Florey says. "It was ...

But sentence diagramming brings geometry into grammar. If you weren't taught to diagram a sentence, this might sound a little zany. But the practice has a long — and controversial — history in ...