Teaching Grammar & Usage:

• Mechanically Inclined: Building Grammar, Usage, and Style into Writer's Workshop -- Jeff Anderson
• School House Rock Videos - Verbs, adverbs, etc.
• Grammar Police (5:46) -- funny parody, includes inappropriate language.
  

Issues of Standard English:

• The National Council of Teachers of English position statement, "Resolution on the Students' Right to Their Own Language" (1974) http://www.ncte.org/positions/statements/righttoownlanguage

•  "The Politics of Correction: How We Can Nurture Students in Their Writing," Linda Christensen, The Quarterly, 25:4 (2003). http://www.nwp.org/cs/public/print/resource/951

•  "Suite for Ebony and Phonics," John R. Rickford, Discovery, December 1997). http://www.stanford.edu/~rickford/papers/SuiteForEbonyAndPhonics.html NOTE: The Rickford article gets more technical than our discussion will probably require, so you should feel no compulsion to digest it all. He makes critical points in the first half of his article.