Teaching Grammar and Mechanics
Author: Mark Pennington
Published By: Pennington Publishing
Published Price: $79.99
Published Date: 2004 |
- Comprehensive grammar, usage, spelling, and mechanics standards-based curricula for ages eight to adult.
- Comprehensive multiple choice grammar and mechanics diagnostic assessments and recording matrices enable the teacher to differentiate grammar and mechanics instruction according to the instructional needs of each student.
- Minimal teacher prep design with user-friendly procedures and instructional activities.
- Tips and writing hints for the grammatically-challenged teacher.
- 72 targeted grammar and mechanics worksheets, targeted to each skill of the diagnostic assessments.
- A full year of 64 Sentence Lifting direct instruction lessons in mechanics, spelling, and grammar. Uses both model sentences (mentor texts) and error analysis to teach sentence variety, revision, and editing skills.
- Compare to Daily Oral Language (D.O.L.) programs which only teach error correction divorced from the context of meaningful writing.
- Sentence combining and sentence manipulation activities.
- Student editing resources.
- 314 pages of grammar and mechanics resources in a large three-ring binder.
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