Grammar Keepers

Lessons That Tackle Students′ Most Persistent Problems Once and for All, Grades 4-12

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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Students and teachers need accessible ways to talk about and use grammar. In Gretchen′s trademark style, she gets these ever-important conversations started and keeps them going. This book is a keeper."-Jeff Anderson, Author of Revision Decisions and Everyday EditingAlmost everyone could benefit from a grammar check every once in a while—even we teachers. But our students desperately need something much more systematic, and they need it right way. No matter what state you teach in, you can be certain that grammar is being tested . . . frequently and across the grades! Meanwhile our students entering middle and high school are still making the same errors they made back in third grade. Luckily, Gretchen Bernabei, author of Fun-Size Academic Writing for Serious Learning, comes to the rescue with Grammar Keepers: a kid-friendly cache of 101 lessons and practice pages to help your students internalize the conventions of correctness once and for all. Gretchen’s secret? Embed the lessons in ten minutes of daily journal writing, then use students’ own writing as models for discussion and practice. Students are much more interested in learning from one another than from stodgy sentences in a dusty primer, and these ultra-relevant examples more easily transfer into students’ talking, thinking, reading, and writing. Here are the three ingredients of Gretchen’s approach: Daily journal writing, which increases writing practice and allows students to implement and master the lessons on punctuation, usage, and sentence structure in an authentic contextMinilessons and Interactive Dialogues that model for students how to make grammatical choicesA "Keepers 101" tracking sheet for teachers to monitor teaching and a "Parts of Speech Sheet" for students to use as a reference toolWe have known for years that traditional grammar instruction falls short for a great many students, but until now we didn’t know how to replace it. With Grammar Keepers, we have the right tool for today’s students. Think of it as the Warriner’s English Grammar and Composition for the spell- and grammar-check generation.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-03-17
Mått215 x 279 x 20 mm
Vikt700 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCorwin Literacy
Antal sidor280
FörlagSAGE Publications Inc
ISBN9781483375465

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A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE’s James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications’ The Good Writer’s Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What’s a Keeper?Part I. Common ErrorsLesson 1. They’reLesson 2. ThereLesson 3. TheirLesson 4. TooLesson 5. TwoLesson 6. ToLesson 7. It’sLesson 8. ItsLesson 9. You’reLesson 10. YourLesson 11. WhoLesson 12. WhomLesson 13. Who’sLesson 14. WhoseLesson 15. We’reLesson 16. WereLesson 17. WhereLesson 18. OurLesson 19. AreLesson 20. ThenLesson 21. ThanLesson 22. A LotLesson 23. AlreadyLesson 24. All ReadyLesson 25. All RightLesson 26. LessLesson 27. FewerLesson 28. LieLesson 29. LayLesson 30. Should’veLesson 31. Used toLesson 32. Me/ILesson 33. Subject/Verb AgreementLesson 34. AcceptLesson 35. ExceptLesson 36. LooseLesson 37. LoseLesson 38. AffectLesson 39. EffectPart II. PunctuationLesson 40. Apostrophes—ContractionsLesson 41. Apostrophes—PossessionsLesson 42. Apostrophes—PluralsLesson 43. No Apostrophes—PluralsLesson 44. No Apostrophes—Verbs Ending in sLesson 45. Commas in a SeriesLesson 46. Commas in a LetterLesson 47. Commas in AppositivesLesson 48. Commas After Beginning Phrases/ClausesLesson 49. Commas Before Ending Phrases/ClausesLesson 50. Commas With Direct AddressLesson 51. Commas in a DateLesson 52. Commas Between City and StateLesson 53. Quotations—Question Marks InsideLesson 54. Quotations—Ending in PunctuationLesson 55. Hyphenated AdjectivesLesson 56. ColonsLesson 57. Punctuating Dialogue—Chicken DancePart III. CapitalizationLesson 58. Proper NounsLesson 59. Proper AdjectivesLesson 60. Letter ClosingsLesson 61. First Words in SentencesLesson 62. First Words in QuotationsPart IV. SpellingLesson 63. Silent ELesson 64. Words Ending in yLesson 65. Words Ending in ConsonantsLesson 66. I Before ELesson 67. Ce/Ci/Ge/GiPart V. FragmentsLesson 68. Two-Word SentencesLesson 69. Sentence Wringer—Psst! StatementLesson 70. Sentence Wringer—Is There a Verb?Lesson 71. Joining Sentences LegallyLesson 72. Joining Sentences IllegallyLesson 73. Sentence Wringer PracticeLesson 74. Paragraph OverhaulLesson 75. AAAWWWUBIficationPart VI. PitchforkingLesson 76. Pitchforking ActionsLesson 77. Pitchforking NounsLesson 78. Pitchforking Using Ba-Da-BingLesson 79. Pitchforking Using ExclamationsLesson 80. Pitchforking Using DescriptionsLesson 81. Pitchforking Using SoundsLesson 82. Pitchforking Using Smells/TastesLesson 83. Pitchforking Using ContrastsLesson 84. Pitchforking Using Participial PhrasesLesson 85. Pitchforking Using AbsolutesPart VII. Parts of SpeechLesson 86. NounsLesson 87. VerbsLesson 88. AdjectivesLesson 89. AdverbsLesson 90. PronounsLesson 91. PrepositionsLesson 92. ConjunctionsLesson 93. InterjectionsLesson 94. Sentence PatternsPart VIII. Beyond VerbsLesson 95. Direct ObjectsLesson 96. Indirect ObjectsLesson 97. GerundsLesson 98. Participial PhrasesLesson 99. InfinitivesLesson 100. Predicate NominativesLesson 101. Predicate AdjectivesAppendix