The essence of pop up grammar in R and D is to simply say, “X means ____ “. If a kid asks something about X and Gammar Man inside of us wants to go off on X, calling it an indirect object pronoun (big no-no to use the grammar term), we stifle all that knowledge inside of us* and we just say what it means.
Another simple tool in R and D is to just ask Which Word Means ____ ? It seems so simple but it is a good way to fast forward through pop up grammar, which should be kept to a minimum during R and D in favor of the translation flow. The idea of just saying what it means in a few sentence is from Susan Gross. It is one of the most important things I learned from her.
*it is thoroughly useless in a room full of teen hormone cases who are just there for the credit.