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Conventions 101

A Functional Approach to Teaching (and Assessing!) Grammar and Punctuation

by Chauna Ramsey

Conventions 101

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Book Description

This is a collection of cumulative units of study for conventional errors common in student writing. It's flexible, functional, and zeroes in problems typically seen in writing of all types, from the eternal "there/they're/their" struggle to correct colon use. Units are organized from most simple to most challenging.

There are tens of thousands of grammar textbooks out there. What makes this one different? Glad you asked. I think it's different in three ways.
1) This book was written by someone with 24 years of experience teaching at public high schools and colleges.
2) This book zeroes in on errors commonly found in students' writing, but it doesn't use phrases unfamiliar to students. I love knowing how to hyphenate phrasal adjectives, for example, but I'd never teach hyphenation using those words. I don't really care whether or not my students know what a dependent clause is; instead, I want them to know when they should use a comma instead of a semicolon. To be fair, I guess I do teach students certain phrases like "fragment" and "runon," but for the most part, this book is about function - not terminology.
3) Perhaps most importantly, this book includes something I haven't seen in others: comprehensive assessment. How many of us have successfully taught the difference between "their," "they're," and "there," only to have the same errors pop up in students' writing two weeks later? The quizzes in this book are cumulative, so students are less likely to forget what you taught two weeks ago.

This open book is licensed under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC). You can download Conventions 101 ebook for free in PDF format (0.2 MB).

Table of Contents

Unit 1
A Lot; There, They're, Their; To, Two, Too
Unit 2
Your, You're; Its, It's; Woman,Women
Unit 3
Where, Were; Could Have, Could "Of"; Lose, Loose
Unit 4
Whose, Who's; Fewer, Less; Choose, Chose
Unit 5
Accept, Except; Who vs That; Lose, Loose
Unit 6
All Ready, Already; I vs Me; Affect, Effect
Unit 7
Everyday, Every Day; Defiant, Definite
Unit 8
Capitalizing Pronouns; All Right vs "Alright"
Unit 9
Commas in a Series; Commas After Introductory Phrases
Unit 10
Commas with "So," "Or," "But," "And"; Commas with Interrupting Elements
Unit 11
Comma Review
Unit 12
Fragments and Run-Ons
Unit 13
Semicolons
Unit 14
Punctuation and End Quotation Marks; Punctuating Titles
Unit 15
Colons
Unit 16
Apostrophe Pre-Assessment
Unit 17
Apostrophes
Unit 18
Subject-Verb Agreement
Unit 19
Final Exam; "Rejected" Notice; Cheat Sheet

Book Details

Title
Conventions 101
Subject
Medical
Publisher
Open Oregon Educational Resources
Published
2016
Pages
49
Edition
1
Language
English
PDF Size
0.2 MB
License
CC BY-NC

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