Students benefit much more from learning a few grammar keys thoroughly than from trying to remember many terms and rules. Experiment with different approaches until you find the ones that work the best for you and your students. Some teachers focus on showing students how phrases add rich detail to sentences. Other teachers find that sentence diagrams help students see the organization of sentences. Some use grammar metaphors some emphasize the verb as the key part of speech, showing students how the sentence is built around it and how vivid verbs create vivid sentences. Whatever approaches you takes to grammar; show students how to apply it not only to their writing but also to their reading and to their other language arts activities.