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Informationen zum Autor A popular workshop presenter and winner of NCTE's James Moffett Award in 2010, Gretchen Bernabei has been teaching kids to write in middle school and high school classrooms for more than thirty years. In addition to four other professional books and numerous articles for NCTE journals, she is the author of National Geographic School Publications' The Good Writer's Kit, as well as Lightning in a Bottle, a CD of visual writing prompts. Klappentext Your best offense against the state assessmentsNo 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 Zusammenfassung This book offers 101 grammar lessons on easy-to-access 2-page spreads so students gain an understanding of grammar and its usage. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction: What's a Keeper? Part I. Common Errors Lesson 1. They're Lesson 2. There Lesson 3. Their Lesson 4. Too Lesson 5. Two Lesson 6. To Lesson 7. It's Lesson 8. Its Lesson 9. You're Lesson 10. Your Lesson 11. Who Lesson 12. Whom Lesson 13. Who's Lesson 14. Whose Lesson 15. We're Lesson 16. Were Lesson 17. Where Lesson 18. Our Lesson 19. Are Lesson 20. Then Lesson 21. Than Lesson 22. A Lot Lesson 23. Already Lesson 24. All Ready Lesson 25. All Right Lesson 26. Less Lesson 27. Fewer Lesson 28. Lie Lesson 29. Lay Lesson 30. Should've Lesson 31. Used to Lesson 32. Me/I Lesson 33. Subject/Verb Agreement Lesson 34. Accept Lesson 35. Except Lesson 36. Loose Lesson 37. Lose Lesson 38. Affect Lesson 39. Effect Part II. Punctuation Lesson 40. Apostrophes-Contractions Lesson 41. Apostrophes-Possessions Lesson 42. Apostrophes-Plurals Lesson 43. No Apostrophes-Plurals Lesson 44. No Apostrophes-Verbs Ending in s Lesson 45. Commas in a Series Lesson 46. Commas in a Letter Lesson 47. Commas in Appositives Lesson 48. Commas After Beginning Phrases/Clauses Lesson 49. Commas Before Ending Phrases/Clauses Lesson 50. Commas With Direct Address Lesson 51. Commas in a Date Lesson 52. Commas Between City and State Lesson 53. Quotations-Question Marks Inside Lesson 54. Quotations-Ending in Punctuation Lesson 55. Hyphenated Adjectives Lesson 56. Colons Lesson 57. Punctuating Dialogue-Chicken Dance Part III. Capitalization Lesson 58. Proper Nouns Lesson 59. Proper Adjectives Lesson 60. Letter Closings Lesson 61. First Words in Sentences Lesson 62. First Words in Quotations Part IV. Spelling Lesson 63. Silent E Lesson 64. Words Ending in y Lesson 65. Words Ending in Consonants Lesson 66. I Before E Lesson 67. Ce/Ci/Ge/Gi Part V. Fragments Lesson 68. Two-Word Sentences Lesson 69. Sentence Wringer-Psst! Statement Lesson 70. Sentence Wringer-Is There a Verb? Lesson 71. Joining Sentences Legally Lesson 72. Joining Sentences Illegally Lesson 73. Sentence Wringer Practice Lesson 74. Paragraph Overhaul Lesson 75. AAAWWWUBIfication Part VI. Pitchforking Lesson 76. Pitchforking Actions Lesson 77. Pitchforking Nouns Lesson 78. Pitchforking Using Ba-Da-Bing Lesson 79. Pitchforking Using Exclamations Lesson 80. Pitchforking Using Descriptions
