[MOSAIC] Mosaic Digest, Vol 15, Issue 16

[Joy]

Christine,
  I would use your writing workshop time to address grammar within the context of your student's writing. You could do a mini lesson on a particular part of speech, punctuation, etc., telling your students that you will be looking for them to use what you taught in your mini lesson in their writing. For example if you taught them quotations, you could ask them to include some dialog in their writing. You can also pull a small group together for a conference on a particular area if you see similar errors in their work.
   
  Vocabulary could be addressed within content areas. See Marzano and Pickering's Academic Vocabulary. Here is a link to a school system's web page that has some good ideas for that. http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/vocab/
   
   
  Spelling can be handled in several ways, depending on your grade and whether or not your school has a program. I have done it several ways. What is your situation like at your school?
   
  Christine Halliday <challiday50 at hotmail.com> wrote:
  . . . when do I do vocabulary, spelling, grammar? 


                Joy/NC/4
  jwidmann at rocketmail.com
  How children learn is as important as what they learn: process and content go hand in hand. http://www.responsiveclassroom.org
   









       
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