Are Chantal Francois and Elisa Zonana’s students like yours? Economically, linguistically, and culturally diverse; excited to write; yet underprepared for the kinds of writing demanded in middle school and beyond? Don’t be daunted. Francois and Zonana found a solution, and in Catching Up on Conventions they share lessons that help kids quickly master Standard English grammar.
Catching Up on Conventions will make a difference in your writing workshop and in your middle schoolers’ lives. With Catching Up on Conventions and its annotated lesson plans, you’ll:
- make key grammatical rules explicit and scaffold learning through highly structured, tightly focused lessons
- strengthen students’ narrative and expository writing
- give students specific tools for editing and revising
- support code-switching between the language students use outside the classroom and Standard English.
