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Patterns of Power Jeff and Whitney suggest that taking just five minutes from your reading workshop and five minutes from your writing workshop to focus on how the conventions connect reading and writing will miraculously affect your students' understanding of how language works for readers and writers.
List of contents
Introduction; Part 1: Getting Started with the Patterns of Power Process; 1: Into Planning: What Do You Need to Do Before Teaching the Invitations?; 2: Into the Classroom: How Do You Teach Conventions with the Invitations Process?; 3: Into Application: How Do You Ensure Writers Apply What They Know?; Part 2: Into the Patterns of Power Lesson Sets; The Power of Sentences; 4: What Do Capital Letters Do?; 5: What Do Nouns Do?; 6: What Do Verbs Do?; 7: What Do Sentences Do?; 8: What Do End Marks Do?; The Power of Pairs; 9: What Do Apostrophes Do?; 10: What Do Pronouns Do?; 11: How Do Verbs and Nouns Agree?; 12: Which Punctuation Comes in Pairs?; The Power of Details; 13: What Do Adjectives Do?; 14: What Do Comparatives and Superlatives Do?; 15: What Do Adverbs Do?; 16: What Do Prepositions Do?; The Power of Combining; 17: What Do Conjunctions Do?; 18: Why Do Writers Use Compound Sentences?; 19: Why Do Writers Use the Serial Comma?; 20: Why Do Writers Use Complex Sentences?; Conclusion Look Up!
About the author
For over thirty years,
Jeff Anderson has inspired writers and teachers of grades K-8 with the power and joy of the writing and grammar. He has written eight books for Stenhouse Publishers. He also writes middle-grade novels.
Whitney La Rocca is an elementary literacy coach and has spent over 20 years working with young readers and writers. She enjoys delivering professional development and coaching teachers in best practices to empower children to create their identities in the world of literacy.
Summary
Patterns of Power, Grades 1-5 provides a simple classroom routine that is structured in length and approach, but provides teachers flexibility in choosing the texts, allowing for numerous, diverse voices in the classroom.
