Teaching Grammar Through Writing - Keith Polette

Teaching Grammar Through Writing

Activities to Develop Writer's Craft in ALL Students in Grades 4-12

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
208 Seiten
2007
Pearson (Verlag)
978-0-205-49166-7 (ISBN)
41,65 inkl. MwSt
zur Neuauflage
  • Titel erscheint in neuer Auflage
  • Artikel merken
Zu diesem Artikel existiert eine Nachauflage
Written as a springboard to teaching grammar, this book is designed to help teachers of grades 4–8 teach students to use the sixteen essential grammatical elements (seven parts of speech, six phrases, and three clauses) in their writing. Exercises, strategies, and examples provide a guide for the teacher about how students can learn, expand, and transfer the grammar skills acquired to their own writing. The book is organized so that teachers can either pick and choose lessons that are tailored to meet their students' specific needs, or they can teach the material in a clear and effective scope and sequence from beginning to end..

 

Teachers Rave about Keith Polette’s New Way to Teach Writing!

 

“I like the writing exercises that are incorporated right from the start and the interesting approach to getting students to develop their understanding in their own words.  I also would recommend the book to other teachers because it has universal appeal for any teacher trying to improve their own understanding of grammar and writing or who is looking for another good resource for their students.”

    —Lona Garrison, Gwinnett County Public Schools, GA

 

“I think this book is done very well. Teachers could use this book as a reference tool in the classroom.”

    —Deedra Murray, Edyth J. Hayes Middle School, KY

 

 

Take a look inside:



Focuses on one grammatical element at a time to assist teachers in building on students' prior knowledge.
Addresses such topics as sentence building, combining, and imitation, writer's voice, word play, poetry, editing, and guided or process writing.

Dr. Keith Polette, a specialist in children’s literacy, received a Ph.D. in English from Saint Louis University, two Master’s Degrees–one in English and one in Drama–from Idaho State University, and a B.A. in English from Central Methodist University. Currently, Dr. Polette is an Associate Professsor of English and the Director of the English Education Program at the University of Texas at El Paso.    Recently, he received the UTEP College of Liberal Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching & Research, the UT System Chancellor's Council Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was recognized by the Texas State Reading Association as an Outstanding Texas Author. Prior to moving to El Paso in 1995, Dr. Polette was a Mentor Teacher and an English/Language Arts teacher for both remedial and gifted students in St. Louis, Missouri. Dr. Polette has published over 30 articles in professional journals, eight books on teaching, and two books for children.  His most recent publications are Read and Write It Out Loud: Guided Oral Literacy Strategies, Teaching Grammar Through Writing:  Activities to Develop Writer’s Craft (both by Allyn & Bacon), Isabel and the Hungry Coyote, and Paco and the Giant Chile Plant (both by Raven Tree Press).  

INTRODUCTION

 

CHAPTER ONE  

Word Works I:             Nouns                                     


 

Word Works II:           Verbs                                      


 

Word Works III:          Pronouns                                 


 

Word Works IV:          Adjectives                               


 

Word Works V:           Adverbs                                  


 

Word Works VI:          Prepositions                             


 

Word Works VII:         Conjunctions                           


 

CHAPTER TWO  

Sentence Works I:        Absolute Phrases                     


 

Sentence Works II:       Gerund Phrases                       


 

Sentence Works III:     Infinitive Phrases                      


 

Sentence Works IV:     Prepositional Phrases               


 

Sentence Works V:      Participial Phrases                    


 

Sentence Works VI:        Appositive Phrases               


 

Sentence Works VII:   Adjective Clauses                     


 

Sentence Works VIII:   Adverbial Clauses                    


 

Sentence Works IX:     Noun Clauses                          


 

Sentence Expanding                                                     


 

Sentence Combining                                                     


 

Sentence Matching                                                      


 

CHAPTER THREE        

Punctuation Points:       

 

            The Comma                                                    


           

            The Apostrophe                                              


 

            The Colon                                                       


 

            The Exclamation Mark                         


           

            Quotation Marks                                             


 

            Semi-Colon                                                     


 

            Special Focus:  Comma-Splice            


 

            The Hyphen                                                     


 

            The Dash                                                         


 

What Is a Sentence?                                                    


 

Sentence Subjects                                                       


 

Sentence Predicates                                                     


 

Compound Subjects and Predicates                             


 

Direct Object                                                              


 

Indirect Object                                                


 

Predicate Noun                                                           


 

Predicate Adjective                                                     


 

Parallel Structure                                                         


 

Sentence Structures                                                     


 

Ten Sentence Patterns to Imitate                                 


 

Sentence Imitation                                                       


 

16 Kinds of Sentences                                                 


 

Figurative Language                                                     


           

A Note on Voice                                                         


 

CHAPTER FOUR  

Word Play                                                                   


 

Word Building                                                 


 

Add a Letter                                                                


 

Change a Letter                                                           


 

Collecting Collective Nouns                                         


 

Multiple Meaning Words                                             


 

What’s  in a Word?                                                     


 

Word Spectrum                                                           


 

A Very Special Paragraph                                           


 

Concrete Poetry                                                          


 

Word Connections                                                      


 

Words and Sounds                                                      


 

Riddles                                                            


 

Rewritten Titles                                                


 

Half a Proverb                                                             


 

Good News, Bad News                                              


 

Writing Questions                                                        


 

Flexible Thinking                                                          


 

Decision Making                                                          


 

Rock `N Roll Names                                                   


 

Revising Weak Sentences                                            


 

Parts of Speech Review                                               


 

Re-Arrangements                                                        


 

CHAPTER FIVE  

Passages to Edit                                                          


 

CHAPTER SIX  

Poetry Patterns                                                


 

Build a Name                                                              


 

Diamante                                                                     


 

Wishing Upon a Poem                                     


 

Bio-Poem                                                                    


 

Night Poem                                                                 


 

Alliterative Poem                                                         


 

Alliterative Character Poem                                         


 

Parts of Speech Poem                                                 


 

Adverb Poem                                                              


 

Another Parts of Speech Poem                        


 

Prepositional Phrase Poem                                           


 

Participle Phrase Poem                                    


 

Sentence Pattern Poems                                              


 

Syllable Poems                                                


 

Text Message Poem                                                    


 

CHAPTER SEVEN  

Acts of Writing:                                                           


 

            A “Do You Remember When” Poem               


                       

            A “So Alone” Poem                                        


 

            A Persuasive Letter                                         


 

            A “Great Day” Poem                                       


 

            A “Two Voice” Poem                                      


           

            Imitation Poem:  The Eagle                                                        


 

            Imitation Poem:  The Argument of His Book                              


 

            Imitation Poem:  The Tyger                                                        


 

            Imitation Poem:  A Red, Red Rose                                            


 

            Imitation Poem:  There is no frigate like a book              


 

Writing Extension I:  Unusual Connections                    


 

Writing Extension II:  Dream Poem                              


 

Writing Extension III:  Who Am I?                               


 

Writing Extension IV:  Colorful Writing             


 

Writing Extension V:   Colorful Writing II                     


 

Writing Extension VI:  Poetry of Names                       



APPENDIX A  

Writing in the Content Areas                                        


 

Alliterative Pattern                                                       


 

Alternative Acrostic Poems                                          


 

Contrast Pattern                                                          


 

“So You Want to Be” Pattern                                      


 

“Five Good Things” Pattern                                         


 

Informational Paragraph                                               


 

Contrast Paragraph                                                      


 

Character Analysis / Personality Trait ¶            


 

Multi-Modal Character/Person Analysis                       


 

Biographical Writing                                                    


 

APPENDIX B  

Response to a Writing Prompt                         


 

APPENDIX C  

Reproducibles                                                             


 

WORKS CITED                                                       

Erscheint lt. Verlag 13.4.2007
Sprache englisch
Maße 210 x 276 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik
ISBN-10 0-205-49166-9 / 0205491669
ISBN-13 978-0-205-49166-7 / 9780205491667
Zustand Neuware
Haben Sie eine Frage zum Produkt?
Mehr entdecken
aus dem Bereich
Lernarrangements und Unterrichtsentwicklung für alle Stufen

von Bildungsdirektion Kanton Zürich Volksschulamt (Hrsg.) …

Buch | Softcover (2023)
hep verlag
27,00