Course Reading on Vocab and Grammar

I have been looking into incorporating vocabulary and grammar into the classroom in non-traditional and more effective ways. My biggest takeaway so far is that incorporating vocabulary and grammar isn't as difficult as I originally thought. There are ways to seemingly incorporate and integrate vocabulary into a lesson.

One activity I am especially fond of for vocabulary lessons is called the “scramble.” Students put lanyards around their necks with one vocabulary word on it. They are to be experts on that word for the day. Throughout the lesson, the teacher will provide opportunities where the students have to arrange themselves with each other based on the relationships between those words. It's basically like a concept map using bodies. They then explain to the class why they arranged the way they did. Of course, this activity can be done on an individual basis, too. Students can have individual decks of cards with vocabulary words. They can create a visual representation with those decks, arranging them in relation to each other in a way that makes sense to them. This works as a great strategy for progress monitoring and formative assessments. We can use their individual concept maps to identify and address misconceptions that they have surrounding the vocabulary. “Interactive opportunities,” according to the book Word Nerds, helps students to “process word meanings at a deeper and more refined level.”

I've only begun to initiate research into grammar. I'm reading the book Engaging Grammar: Practical Advice for Real Classrooms by Amy Benjamin with Tom Oliva. The teachers interviewed in the initial chapters expressed that grammar was typically the most boring aspect of the English classroom. However, this book argues that we can incorporate and integrate grammar education into our regular curriculum seamlessly. It does not have to be a separate unit. There's no reason why we can't identify sentences splices in student writing and even reading. This makes it more real and related, anyway. Students seeing prepositional phrases being used effectively or ineffectively provides them with a better understanding of the role of the phrase than a simple definition on a whiteboard.

My next questions concerning grammar is HOW? How do I effectively implement grammar without simply dropping terms in isolated ways? How do I make it engaging?