An Inquiry Grammar Lesson Plan Find a short piece of mentor text that illustrates the concept you wish to teach. A phrase, a sentence, a paragraph will do. Have students discuss what they notice about the mentor text—e.g., sure are a lot of clauses in this sentence.” “There CALKINS See if they can give the observed phenomenon a name. If not, supply it. This is your teachable moment. NAMING-CALKINS Ask the question, does this structure do for the piece?” “What Makes it clearer, more interesting etc. CREATING THEORIES- With the teacher, look at several other examples from the text at hand. Have the students find their own example from the text. Have the students write their own original phrase, sentence, paragraph utilizing the structure from the lesson. Make sure the student writes a sentence phrase or paragraph from the text into their writer’s notebook. Also have them put their original demonstration of the structure in their writer’s notebook. Appendix #7c2
An Inquiry Grammar Lesson Plan Find a short piece of mentor text that illustrates the concept you wish to teach. A phrase, a sentence, a paragraph will do. Have students discuss what they notice about the mentor text—e.g., “There sure are a lot of clauses in this sentence.” See if they can give the observed phenomenon a name. If not, supply it. This is your teachable moment. NAMING-CALKINS Ask the question, “What does this structure do for the piece?” Makes it clearer, more interesting etc. CREATING THEORIES- CALKINS With the teacher, look at several other examples from the text at hand. Have the students find their own example from the text. Have the students write their own original phrase, sentence, paragraph utilizing the structure from the lesson. Make sure the student writes a sentence phrase or paragraph from the text into their writer’s notebook. Also have them put their original demonstration of the structure in their writer’s notebook. Appendix #7c2
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