As a primary teacher, I know that children learn from doing. In Anderson's book he gives tips and ideas about how to incorporate grammar into everyday lessons using a variety of children's literature. There are no worksheets and no time consuming lessons. Much of this book is geared toward middle school aged children, so I modified some of the lessons that he created so they would work for my Kindergarten and First grade students. Below you will find a variety of activities we have used in our classroom this year. I feel that the ideas Anderson tries to encompass in this book are as follows:
• short daily instruction in grammar and mechanics within writer's workshop
• using high-quality mentor texts to teach grammar and mechanics in context
• visual scaffolds,including wall charts, and visual cues that can be pasted into writer's notebooks regular, short routines, like "express-lane edits," that help students spot and correct errors automatically
Picture: In the picture above, I have created a wall chart called "What is a courteous writer?" And we discuss different grammar techniques that we use in K/1 such as capital letters, punctuation, nouns, spacing, verbs, etc. The book has wall charts with grammar for older children so I modified the typical grammar chart and told the students that they could be a courteous writer when they used these techniques in their pieces.
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