Back to Basics
“Things just happen in the right way, at the right time. At least when you let them, when you work with circumstances instead of saying, 'This isn't supposed to be happening this way,' and trying harder to make it happen some other way.”
― Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
Exposure
Our first vocabulary day our goal is to hear and say the vocabulary words as often as possible to gain exposure to the words.
Expertise
For our second vocabulary day, the goal is to do a deep dive into all the words by building a mind map!
Data Gaps
Inevitably, students end up being superstars at a few words, and completely confused by others. These stations fill in the gaps in student knowledge.
Assess!
After students are confident with all their vocabulary words, we'll finally take our multiple-choice assessment.
Lessons and Materials:
Capitalization
It's not hard...capitalize the first word in a sentence, capitalize the pronoun "I", and capitalize proper nouns. The end.
Sentence
You've got a subject, you've got a predicate, you've got...that's it. It's not that hard.
Run On
You've got a subject, you've got a predicate, you've got another subject, you've got another predicate, you've got fifteen lines of writing with no punctuation you've got pages of writing with no punctuation you literally never need to punctuate... oh wait. You do.
Fragment
You've got a. Subject or predicate. Whatever. Periods are. Fun PERIOD!