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Tag: Grammar

  • Lesson Plan: Persuasive Writing

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    Given the challenge of making a statement about something they feel strongly about in a newspaper’s opinion page, students will be able to write arguments that support claims they have, including considered counterclaims and connective reasoning, to the effect that they can create a concluding, logical statement in a complete and formal way. This should…

  • Assessing Grammar

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    Teaching Conventions and Mechanics Assessing Grammar Assessments for grammar used in a classroom of English Language Arts (ELA) at the secondary level should, in my opinion, be mostly formative (FA), with fewer summative assessments (SA) so that students can be conceptually fed more than they are taxed with producing and so they are given as…