Conventions and Craft: A Full Year of Literature-Based Micro-Workshops to Build Essential Understandings for Grammar Sentence Structure &

BEST-SELLING AUTHOR LINDA HOYT knows exactly what educators need to teach the craft of writing. With the Conventions and Craft kit, teachers receive a year's worth of conventions instruction (i. e., sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and capitalization, word study, and general editing). Hoyt takes one concept, or ""understanding,"" to be covered each week in a series of ""micro-workshops""-ten minutes of instruction, most likely at the start of writing time. Teacher's Guide: 192-page, two-color, spiral-bound, tabbedMentor Texts: 14 full-color short texts (i. e., informational articles from Scholastic magazines) in an anthology6 informational trade books by well-known nonfiction authorsCompanion Website: Assessment ToolsSample Student Papers for use in lessonsSkills Continuum, K-5, inspired by CCSS, TEKS, and VSOLSample Year-Long PlansVideos of Linda modeling lessons and interviews with authors of the mentor textsWelcome Letter KEY FEATURES: Easily fits into any curriculumA year's worth of conventions instructionLessons are quick- just ten minutes a day | Conventions and Craft: A Full Year of Literature-Based Micro-Workshops to Build Essential Understandings for Grammar Sentence Structure &