Contributor
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Strategy
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Anna Liu
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- Write a story with the children (modelled writing) and then check the conventions together.
- Point out to students the mistakes and correct them together.
- Use one of the student's unedited stories, with permission, and put it on transparency.
- Then, as a class, edit it. Guide the students through the piece.
- Ask students to edit one of their own pieces of writing, then trade with someone else for editing, before showing it to the teacher.
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Susan Nixon
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To help kinesthetic learners absorb conventions, try having them punctuate a sentence strip sentence, using pasta shaped somewhat like the necessary punctuation.
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Susan Nixon
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Identify a story character who does not use standard grammar. Ask students to find something the character said and why it is not standard, as well as how it would be said, using standard grammar. Going into the text is good practice for students who will use a rubric.
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Susan Nixon
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- Give students a piece of diaglog which has been written correctly.
- Ask them to use two different colored crayons, markers or pens to highlight the words of each speaker.
- Then ask what they notice about paragraph breaks and quotation marks.
- Ask them how this would apply to their own writing.
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