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Teaching Grammar Through Writing: Activities to Develop Writer's Craft in ALL Students in Grades 4-12

by: Polette, Keith

Teaching Grammar Through Writing: Activities to Develop Writer's Craft in ALL Students in Grades 4-12

by: Polette, Keith

ISBN 13:
9780205491667
ISBN 10:
0205491669
Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 01/01/2008
Publisher: Allyn & Bacon
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Guide students to write in ways that are clear so that they can learn, expand, and trasfer the grammar skills they learn. Written as a springboard to teaching grammar, this book is designed to help teachers teach students to learn to use the 17 essential grammatical elements (eight parts of speech, six phrases, and three clauses) in their writing. The book's organization lends to any classroom allowing teachers to tailor a lesson based on their students'needs or sequentially teaching the material presented in the book.

Introduction	p. xi
	p. 1
Nouns	p. 1
Verbs	p. 7
Pronouns	p. 14
Adjectives	p. 16
Adverbs	p. 20
Prepositions	p. 23
Conjunctions	p. 25
	p. 29
Absolute Phrases	p. 29
Gerund Phrases	p. 31
Infinitive Phrases	p. 33
Prepositional Phrases	p. 35
Participial Phrases	p. 37
Appositive Phrases	p. 40
Adjective Clauses	p. 42
Adverbial Clauses	p. 44
Noun Clauses	p. 46
Sentence Expanding	p. 48
Sentence Combining	p. 51
Sentence Matching	p. 53
Sentence Sense	p. 54
	p. 55
Punctuation Points	p. 55
The Comma	p. 55
The Apostrophe	p. 56
The Colon	p. 56
The Exclamation Point	p. 56
Quotation Marks	p. 57
The Semicolon	p. 57
Special Focus: The Comma Splice	p. 57
The Hyphen	p. 57
The Dash	p. 58
What Is a Sentence?	p. 58
Sentence Subjects	p. 59
Sentence Predicates	p. 59
Compound Subjects and Predicates	p. 61
Direct Object	p. 62
Indirect Object	p. 63
Predicate Noun	p. 63
Predicate Adjective	p. 63
Parallel Structure in Sentences	p. 64
Sentence Structures	p. 64
Ten Sentence Patterns to Imitate	p. 65
Sixteen Kinds of Sentences: Different Constructions for Different Purposes	p. 68
Figurative Language	p. 69
A Note on Voice	p. 71
	p. 74
Word Play	p. 74
Collecting Collective Nouns	p. 78
Multiple-Meaning Words	p. 78
Synonyms	p. 78
What's in a Word?	p. 79
Word Spectrum	p. 79
Very Special Paragraphs	p. 80
Concrete Poetry	p. 81
Word Connections	p. 82
Words and Sounds	p. 82
Riddles	p. 83
Rewritten Titles	p. 84
Half a Proverb	p. 85
Writing Questions	p. 88
Flexible Thinking	p. 88
Decision Making	p. 89
More Decision Making	p. 90
Rock 'n' Roll Names	p. 90
Revising Weak Sentences	p. 91
Parts of Speech Review	p. 91
Re-Arrangements	p. 92
	p. 101
Passages to Edit	p. 101
Reading Closely and Carefully to Find and Fix Errors	p. 101
	p. 111
Poetry Patterns	p. 111
Build-a-Name Poetry	p. 112
Diamante	p. 113
Wishing upon a Poem	p. 114
Bio-Poem	p. 115
Night Poem	p. 116
Alliterative Poem	p. 117
Alliterative Character Poem	p. 118
Parts of Speech Poem	p. 118
Adverb Poem	p. 119
Another Parts of Speech Poem	p. 120
Prepositional Phrase Poem	p. 121
Participial Phrase Poem	p. 122
Sentence Pattern Poems	p. 123
Syllable Poems	p. 124
Syllable Question Poem	p. 125
Text Message Poem	p. 125
	p. 126
Acts of Writing: Putting It All Together with Process Writing	p. 126
Five Recursive Steps in the Writing Process	p. 127
Activities and Ideas to Support Poetry Writing	p. 128
Writing Extensions	p. 148
	p. 158
Ideas for Writing in the Content Areas	p. 158
Writing about a Nonfiction Topic Using an Alliterative Pattern	p. 158
Writing about Frogs (or a person, animal, object, or place): Alternative Acrostic Poems	p. 159
Writing about Two Animals with a Contrast Pattern	p. 160
Writing about People, Things, or Animals: So You Want to Be	p. 160
The Five Good Things Pattern	p. 161
Writing about a Nonfiction Topic Using an Informational Paragraph	p. 162
The Contrast Paragraph	p. 163
Writing a Character Analysis/Personality Trait Paragraph	p. 164
Multi-Modal Character/Person Analysis Paragraph	p. 165
Biographical Writing: Who Is the Real Walter Frederick Morrison?	p. 167
169
Writing in Response to a Prompt: What Is a Hero?	p. 169
	p. 171
Reproducible Masters	p. 171
Works Cited	p. 187
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Teaching Grammar Through Writing: Activities to Develop Writer's Craft in ALL Students in Grades 4-12

Teaching Grammar Through Writing: Activities to Develop Writer's Craft in ALL Students in Grades 4-12

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0205491669

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0205491669

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