Grammar Keepers: Lessons That Tackle Students' Most Persistent Problems Once and for All, Grades 4-12 (Corwin Literacy) - Softcover

Bernabei, Gretchen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483375463 ISBN 13: 9781483375465

Verlag: Corwin, 2015

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Your best offense against the state assessments No matter what state you teach in, you can be certain that grammar is being tested . . . frequently and across the grades! The biggest issue? Most of our grades 4-12 students continue to make the same old errors year after year. Grammar Keepers to the rescue, with 101 lessons that help students internalize the conventions of correctness once and for all. Bernabei’s key ingredients include Daily journal writing to increase practice and provide an authentic context Minilessons and Interactive Dialogues that model how to make grammatical choices A "Keepers 101" sheet to track teaching and "Parts of Speech Sheet" for student reference

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Gretchen Bernabei's teaching career spans more than 28 years-and counting. She currently teaches English at the Eleanor Kolitz Academy in San Antonio. Gretchen has shared her experience with other teachers through seminars, journal articles and books, offering field-tested techniques for teaching writing. Her The Good Writer's Kit for Hampton-Brown/National Geographic is a multi-component program for inspiring adolescent writers. Other recent publications include:

• Crunchtime: Lessons to Help Students Blow the Roof Off writing Tests and Become Better Writers in the Process (Heinemann)
  • Publication to date units: 14,050
  • First 12 months units: 6000
• Why We Must Run with Scissors (with Barry Lane)
• Reviving the Essay: Teaching Structure without Formula
• Lightning in a Bottle, a program featuring photographs on CD-ROM used to prompt and guide student writing.
• "The School Essay: Tracking Movement of the Mind" in Teaching the Neglected "R": Rethinking Writing Instruction in Secondary Classrooms (Heinemann)
• The Story of My Thinking: Expository Writing Activities for 13 Teaching Situations (forthcoming, Heinemann, fall 2012)
She has published two anthologies of high-scoring student TAKS essays entitled Sparklers: High Scoring Test Essays and What They Teach Us and More Sparklers.

In 2010, NCTE awarded Gretchen the prestigious James Moffett Award for her classroom research.
In addition, Gretchen is a sought-after presenter for workshops and staff-development seminars across the United States. Her schedule for summer 2012 is attached.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Corwin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1483375463
• ISBN 13: 9781483375465
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland