Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.
Students find and correct parallel structure errors within a text.
Turn summer reading lists from a teacher-centered requirement to a student-driven exploration by asking students to create brochures and flyers that suggest books to explore during the summer months.
This lesson uses "One Green Apple" by Eve Bunting to teach how characters change across a text. It will also guide students through writing an epilogue to accompany their independent book.
Students examine familiar car names for underlying connotations then proceed through a series of steps, increasing their control over language, until they select words with powerful connotations in their own writing.
Students engage in a brief writing assignment that concretely illustrates how language and gender stereotyping interact causally.
Through this lesson, primary students strengthen their phonemic awareness while using picture books featuring alliteration as models for their own writing.
This lesson will be turning heads and pages as students learn how to choose appropriate books for independent reading exercises and later evaluate their choices.
Students add commas and colons to lists throughout a text.
Students correct a variety errors within a text. The errors are underlined.
Students find and correct run-on sentences within a text.
Students find and correct run-on sentences within a text.
Students find and correct run-on sentences within a text.
Students find and correct run-on sentences within a text.
Students correct a variety errors within a text. The errors are underlined.
Students correct a variety errors within a text. The errors are underlined.
Students "become" one of the major characters in a book and describe themselves and other characters, using lists of accurate, powerful adjectives.
Students find and correct a variety of errors within a text.
Students practice choosing between better and best or worse and worst by rewriting sentences with the correct underlined option. This is activity 1 of 2 in the series.
Students practice choosing between better and best or worse and worst by rewriting sentences with the correct underlined option. This is activity 2 of 2 in the series.