Please note that the links below will take you to other sites.
ALLEN AND GREENOUGH’S NEW LATIN GRAMMAR FOR SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES A searchable and hyper-indexed version of the 1903 Ginn and Company grammatical resource. One of the many valuable resources from the Perseus Digital Library.
ANNE MAHONEY RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS OF LATIN Information for intermediate level students on reading Latin in its natural word order as well as advice for teachers on how to teach students to read Latin fluently. Lists of important Latin words to know.
BAYLOR CLASSICS DEPARTMENT Practice guides, worksheets and Latin Grammar Mnemonic Songs!!!
CARPE LATINAM II Reading Latin should be done in the word order in which it was written and not approached as a decoding exercise. Ginny shows how your students can develop reading fluency using Metaphrasing Cards. This is an application of grammatical and syntactical knowledge which will result in greater reading fluency. You can download a copy (free) of Ginny’s Metaphrasing Card (and lots of other great stuff!) at Professor LaFleur’s outstanding Methods and Materials site for Latin Teachers.
CLASSICS TEACHING RESOURCES David Parson’s has a nice selection of ideas for enriching your teaching repertoire. His discussion of mnemonics is especially useful. Many teachers are often searching for mnemonics -- and there are some here -- but David also explains how you can help your students to think creatively in order to devise their own. (If your students create their own, they are more likely to actually remember them.)
CLASSICS LIBRARY Hosted by the Classics Department at London's Francis Holland School, The Classics Library is an online resource especially designed for Latin, Greek and Classics teachers in the United Kingdom. Downloadable support materials are available for Classics teachers at Key Stages 2/3 (ages 7-14), GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education, ages 14-16) and A Levels (also known as Sixth Form, ages 16-18) as well as the Common Entrance exam (an age 11+ exam for placement in independent schools in the UK). Latin offerings on the Classics Library site include basic syntax at each level as well as prescribed vocabulary lists.
CHARLES E. BENNETT NEW LATIN GRAMMAR Written by a Cornell University Latin professor, this 1918 Latin grammar has been placed in the Project Gutenberg collection of public domain books. It may be downloaded in HTML or Plain Text Format. (Update: Anne Mahoney and Focus Publishing have recently revised this Latin grammar in book format, making it much easier to use.)
CLASSICS TEACHING RESOURCES A selection of teaching materials collected by a retired teacher of Latin and Greek. Here you will find mnemonics, songs, lesson plans and more.
CPL ONLINE The online journal of the Committee for the Promotion of Latin, sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. See their hyperlinked index to find articles on a diverse range of topics including grammar, oral Latin, reading and translation strategies, sight translation, and pedagogical theory and practice. You’ll also find some mnemonics and songs here.
DAN MCCAFFREY’S GRAMMAR HANDOUTS *NEW* Download some grammar reference sheets here. Topics include rules for verb tenses, infinitives, participles, gerunds and gerundives, personal pronouns and possessives, essential q-words, and more!
DAVID PELLEGRINO’S LATIN TEACHING SONGS Here are some mnemonic songs to help you remember noun declensions, prepositions, personal enedings, intransitive verbs with the dative, adjectives with the dative, relative pronouns, hic/haec/hoc, ille/illa/illud, is/ea/id, and question words.
DIAGRAMMING LATIN SENTENCES Barbara McManus provides helpful information on how to incorporate diagramming into the Latin class. Part I provides basic information and Part II provides the steps to follow when diagramming Latin sentences.
DONATUS’ ARS MINOR Discussion in Latin concerning the 8 parts of speech by the Roman grammarian. From the Latin Library.
ELEMENTARY LATIN From the University of Michigan, this is a large collection of extremely useful resources for Latin 101 through 504. You’ll find course syllabi, blank worksheets, vocabulary items and sententiae.
GRAMMATICA Kentucky Educational Television’s Latin Grammar front page. Includes lots of good information including tips for reading and translating. There’s a handy article on parsing Latin sentences.
GRAMMAR AND CLC: KEEPING IT IN CONTEXT Ginny Lindzey explains how to seamlessly and contextually integrate grammar while using a reading-based (inductive) textbook.
GLOSSARY OF GRAMMAR & SYNTAX A hyperlinked glossary of grammar and syntax from the University of North Carolina Charlotte.
KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION MNEMONICS Clever helps for remembering difficult points of grammar as well as some cultural items.
LATIN AND ENGLISH GRAMMAR William Harris, Professor Emeritus at Middlebury College, discusses stumbling blocks that English speakers have when trying to understand Latin grammar.
LATIN GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY HELPS From the Latin Teaching Materials Site at St. Louis University. You will find many valuable and useful treasures here, including a modular plan for building mastery in verbs as well as syntactical hints for learning how to understand Latin quickly.
LATIN LIBRARY LATIN HANDOUTS A large collection of handouts. Includes teaching syllabi, general handouts on Latin grammar and syntax, vocabulary and readings as well as materials keyed to Lingua Latina (Oerberg), Latin Via Ovid, Jenney, Fabulae Graecae, and selected authors.
LATIN ONLINE From the Linguistics Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin, this is an overview of Latin vocabulary, sentence structure, and morphology.
LATIN WIKI A Wiki is a webpage that multiple users can edit. This Latin Wiki was set up for the purpose of collecting useful things for teaching and learning Latin. Here you will find a collection of sentences that provide examples of various syntactic and semantic constructions in Latin. Very handy for those of you who are teaching or learning more advanced grammar, such as ablative absolutes, future passive periphrastics, subjunctive clauses, all the different types of pronouns, irregular verbs, and the like.
METHODS AND MATERIALS/WHEN IN ROME, REMEMBER YOUR SANDALS Brought to you by Professor Richard A. LaFleur of the University of Georgia, this site is open to all teachers of Latin and contain an invaluable collection of representative materials, lesson plans, grammar handouts, Powerpoint presentations, and links.
MNEMONICS Grammar, Music, Dates and Numbers, plus some hints on creating your own memory-by-association hints!
NATIONAL COMMITTEE FOR LATIN AND GREEK There’s a very impressive collection of downloadable posters in PDF format here. If you’re looking specifically for grammar and syntactical helps, download SANDALS, COLLOQUAMUR, A CLEVER DEVICE FOR LEARNING ADVERBS, and DEXTER HOYOS’ RULES FOR READING LATIN.
NATIONAL LATIN EXAM While not specifically a grammar exam, the NLE does include grammatical concepts. See Sally Davis’ worksheets and handouts on the more difficult items on the most recent Latin exam.
OPEN UNIVERSITY’S INTERACTIVE LATIN Designed for students who are learning Latin inflections -- noun, verb and adjective endings -- with vocabulary standard in most Latin courses.
PERLINGUA Thomas McCarthy has some wonderful grammar resources here, including a template for a Verb Wheel, a Noun-Adjective Agreement booklet, a Perpetual Sentence Generating Machine and more!
PYRRHA’S LATIN LANGUAGE Provides a nice, short introduction to the very basics of Latin.
RANDOLPH MACON LATIN GRAMMAR STUDENT RESOURCES Latin Noun Paradigms (Modern and Traditional Order), Latin Subjunctive Uses and Q-Words.
SILVA RHETORICAE A guide to the terms of Clasical and Renaissance Rhetoric. This site isn’t a grammar site, but a firm understanding of rhetorical devices will help you develop fluency and comprehension in reading Latin.
TEACHING LATIN Rebecca Jessup’s new website includes basic grammar, parts of a sentence, parts of speech, and the verb system.
