How do you feel about grammar? For many of us, it was a frustrating exercise that kept writing inaccessible. 

In Between the Commas: Sentence Instruction That Builds Confident Writers (and Writing Teachers), author Martin Brandt moves the idea of grammar away from the traditional heavy terminology, and helps us better understand the key moves for writing instruction. 

We started off our conversation on where Marty found himself in 1997 that changed his teaching practice...