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Lesson Sets 1-4

Lesson Set 1 - Teaching the Serial Comma

1. I love the way he led his students through the invitation to revise by help them visualize what they were describing. I think that is a great way to help students choose the right words to convey specific descriptions.

2. I never thought of uncombining sentences then letting the students recombine them. I love that idea.


Lesson Set 2 - Here It Comes: Teaching Colons

The graphic on page 67 is a great tool to use for my struggling learners or even visual learners who need to see the sentences side by side. I will implement this graphic and use it to create similar ones of my own.


Lesson Set 3 - Capitalize on This: Teaching Capitalization

Using a nonfiction book or novel to find capital letters and then discover why they are capitalized is something I have never done. Why have I never done that?! This was a big A-ha moment for me!


Lesson Set 4 - Possession or Contraction - You Be the Judge: Teaching Apostrophes

Apostrophes are grey territory to my students. Some of them just barely make a pencil mark so that it could be taken as an apostrophe if needed, but a simple slip of the pencil if not. They are not confident in using them correctly. Much like in Lesson Set 3, I realized the value of showing the students how apostrophes work rather than simply telling them or going through a few sentences on the board that need correcting. Also, the graphic on page 83 is helpful to help students see the differences. I hope to implement this kind of progression to help students grasp the correct usage and why it is correct.

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  1. AnonymousJune 28, 2017 at 4:35 PM

    I loved the uncombining of sentences, too. I plan to implement that skill this next year.

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    1. Molly HuntJune 29, 2017 at 8:38 AM

      He uses this practice for many of the Lesson Sets and I love the critical thinking process involved in doing this.

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