This professional development is designed to enhance
teachers' knowledge and skill so they can effectively teach grammar in context.
Teaching grammar in context involves showing powerful models like sentences
within mentor texts, rather than marking errors and correcting weak or wrong
examples. Using model sentences from mentor texts teaches students to focus on
what is effective in a piece of writing and then to give it a try in their own
writing. Using models to teach written conventions in context is
closely linked to teaching students to notice author's style or craft. Students
begin to notice how different authors use language and conventions to make
their writing "work" and come alive for the reader. Teaching written conventions does not involve
"hunting" for errors. It does facilitate student thinking and their
own development as writers. Students
learn to experiment in their own writing to try what they notice other authors
doing with language and conventions. Participants will have the opportunity to outline their GSE
Grammar and Convention Standards to create a lesson sequence (Unit plans) for
upcoming lesson plans. Come discover
brain-based, practical ways to use the reading/writing connection to teach
grammar and editing in a way that grows young writers and readers.
Participants will understand how to use mentor sentences to teach.... -literary and rhetorical devices -common grammar skills and language conventions -students how to revise and edit their compositions after modeling the connections between mentor sentences, the writing process, and author's craft -students how to think conscientiously about purposeful revision and editing -students that with mentor sentences, we are exposing students to amazing craft with correct structure and mechanics, and helping them use those models to become student-authors Transform your
traditional teaching into integrated practices, see the students make that
ever-important transfer to writing, and incorporate higher-order thinking into
grammar! Target Audience: Classroom Teachers Instructional Facilitators/Coaches School-Level Administration |