The Grammar Plan Book: A Guide To Smart Teaching

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ISBN: 9780325010434 | 0325010439
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Copyright: 10/26/2006

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A complete planning tool, The Grammar Plan Bookhas two complementary parts. Part one describes an overarching framework for high-quality grammar instruction in conjunction with the process of writing Then in part two, Weaver presents an exceptional tool for preparing to teach grammar related to improving writing: a minimal grammar handbook for teachers that doubles as a lesson planner. Everything you need to know to teach major grammatical options, stylistic features, and conventions is included Then in part two, Weaver presents an exceptional tool for preparing to teach grammar related to improving writing: a minimal grammar handbook for teachers that doubles as a lesson planner. Everything you need to know to teach major grammatical options, stylistic features, and conventions is included

Introduction	p. xiii
Smart Teachers in Action: A Third Way
Grammar to Enrich and Enhance Writing: A Smart Perspective	p. 3
What do smart teachers do about teaching grammar?	p. 4
Sentence combining: A first step in teaching grammar innovatively?	p. 6
Principles to guide the smart teaching of grammar for writing	p. 7
How this book can help you	p. 9
Resources for the smart teacher of grammar, whether expert or novice	p. 11
Teaching Grammar "an Inch Wide and a Mile Deep"	p. 16
Teaching grammatical constructions during the writing process	p. 16
The Paper Bag Princess and participial phrases	p. 17
Framework for teaching grammar throughout the writing process	p. 23
Grammar lessons applied spontaneously	p. 24
Teaching editing over time	p. 27
Editing instruction: Where's the error?	p. 27
Facing the error of our ways	p. 28
Working editing into the writing process	p. 29
Imitating	p. 29
Hunting and categorizing	p. 30
Discussing and clarifying	p. 30
How do we avoid teaching everything and nothing?	p. 31
Modifiers to Enrich Writing	p. 33
Traditional and linguistic descriptions of the language	p. 34
Background concepts	p. 36
Basic parts of speech	p. 36
Basic parts of a sentence: subject + predicate	p. 37
Clauses and phrases	p. 37
What are modifiers, and why teach them?	p. 38
Bound and free modifiers	p. 38
Which modifying constructions to teach	p. 39
Adjectivals	p. 39
Appositives	p. 39
"Out-of-order" adjectivals	p. 40
Present participials	p. 42
Absolutes	p. 42
Adjectival phrases: Bringing them all together	p. 43
Adverbial clauses	p. 44
Teaching subordinate adverbial clauses	p. 45
How to Launch the Teaching of Modifiers	p. 47
Where and how to begin?	p. 47
Introducing participial phrases	p. 49
Introducing absolutes	p. 53
A final word	p. 58
Teaching Editing Skills and (Gasp!) Standardized Tests of Grammar Skills	p. 60
Deciding what editing skills to teach	p. 60
Teaching revision and editing skills for the standardized tests	p. 63
Should we even try to teach to the tests?	p. 64
Inside the Act: What's heavily tested and what isn't?	p. 65
Rhetorical skills: Content, organization, connection, and flow-highest emphasis	p. 67
Connectors, punctuation, and sentence structure relating to flow-high emphasis	p. 68
Phrase-level and sentence-level constraints-moderate emphasis	p. 68
Phrase-level and sentence-level constraints-low emphasis	p. 68
Phrase-level and sentence-level constraints-minimal emphasis	p. 68
What aspects of editing should we teach in the context of writing?	p. 69
The Grammar Planner
Grammar to Expond and Enrich Writing: Putting First Things First	p. 75
Adverbials	p. 75
Adverbial clauses	p. 76
Movable adverbials	p. 77
Adjectivals that are "bound" modifiers	p. 78
Adjectival clauses	p. 79
Other postnoun adjectivals that are "bound"	p. 79
Prepositional phrases: Adjectival and adverbial	p. 80
Adjectivals that are "free" modifiers	p. 81
Appositives	p. 81
Out-of-order adjectivals	p. 82
Single-word adjectives	p. 82
Adjective-headed phrases	p. 83
Present participle phrases	p. 84
Absolutes	p. 84
Movable adjectivals revisited	p. 85
Dangling modifiers	p. 86
Parallelism	p. 87
Comma uses relating to modifiers and parallelism	p. 89
Opener	p. 89
Interrupter	p. 90
Closer	p. 91
Series separator	p. 92
The Sentence: Structure, Organization, Punctuation-and More	p. 95
Subject and predicate	p. 96
Nominal in the subject function	p. 97
Noun	p. 97
Noun phrase	p. 98
Pronoun	p. 99
Verbal	p. 100
Verb	p. 100
Main verb, auxiliary verb, and verb phrase	p. 100
Subject-verb agreement	p. 102
When two compound subjects are joined	p. 103
When a prepositional phrase or other construction separates the subject and verb	p. 103
When the subject and verb are inverted	p. 104
When the subject is an indefinite pronoun	p. 104
Independent clause	p. 105
Joining and separating independent clauses (simple sentences)	p. 105
Avoiding run-on or comma-splice sentences and ineffective fragments	p. 107
Modifying functions: Adjectival and adverbial	p. 109
Adjectival	p. 109
Adverbial	p. 110
The predicate expanded	p. 111
Beyond the simple: Subordinate clauses and the complex sentence	p. 113
Grammatical Considerations in Choosing the Right Words	p. 114
Verbs: Consistency of tense	p. 114
Pronoun uses	p. 115
Use of subject or object form	p. 115
Use of subject or object form to introduce subordinate clauses	p. 116
Inside the adjective clause	p. 116
Inside the noun clause	p. 117
Agreement in number with noun or pronoun referred to	p. 118
Pronoun-pronoun agreement	p. 118
Unspecified they and you	p. 119
Unclear pronoun reference generally	p. 120
Vague reference with it, this, that, which	p. 120
Nouns: Use of the apostrophe in possessives	p. 121
Possessive personal pronouns versus contractions	p. 122
Adjective and adverb forms and uses	p. 123
Compound and superlative forms	p. 124
Adjective or adverb form	p. 124
Homophones commonly confused	p. 125
Two, to, and too	p. 125
Your versus you're	p. 125
There, their, and they're	p. 125
Its versus it's	p. 125
Whose versus who's	p. 126
Accept versus except	p. 126
Affect versus effect	p. 126
Than versus then	p. 126
Weather versus whether	p. 127
Eliminating redundancy and wordiness	p. 127
More on Style, Rhetoric, and Conventions	p. 128
Dialects, English-language-learning markers, and informal and formal variants	p. 128
Foregrounding	p. 129
Sentence inversion with it	p. 131
Sentence inversion with there	p. 132
"Cleft" sentence patterns	p. 132
Punctuation uses and options	p. 133
Dashes	p. 133
Colons	p. 134
Semicolons	p. 135
Commas	p. 136
Rules that don't rule	p. 136
Nonrule 1: Don't split an infinitive	p. 137
Nonrule 2: Don't end a sentence with a preposition	p. 137
Nonrule 3: Don't start a sentence with and or but	p. 138
Nonrule 4: Don't use sentence fragments	p. 138
Nonrule 5: Don't use the passive voice	p. 139
Nonrule 6: Don't start a sentence with hopefully	p. 140
Nonrule 7: Don't start a sentence with there	p. 141
Developing Your Own Scope and Sequence	p. 142
References	p. 147
Index	p. 151
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