Monday, June 29, 2009

Topic: Grammar and Style

10-second review: How help students identify and solve problems in writing? Give students a monthly calendar. Each day of the calendar has a problem in sentence structure, usage or punctuation.


Source: Idea suggested in The Mathematics Teacher (March 2005), 480-481. Publication of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).


Comment: Take the problems from grammar texts or SAT prep materials. Put them in the form of the SAT objective writing questions. You could use the same problem but a different example for a week, maybe for the entire month, like passive active voice. A way of highlighting the kinds of problems that will appear on the SAT writing section and in the students’ writing. RayS.

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