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Patterns of Power, Grades 1–5
Inviting Young Writers into the Conventions of Language
Student Notebooks also available
Instead of chanting grammar rules or completing countless convention worksheets, Jeff Anderson and literacy coach Whitney La Rocca invite young writers to explore conventions as special effects devices that activate meaning.
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Their students study authentic texts and come to recognize these “patterns of power”—the essential grammar conventions that readers and writers require to make meaning.
The first part of the book introduces a way of thinking about grammar instruction and sets up everything you need to immerse yourself in the process of inviting elementary students to experiment and play with language. The second part of the book offers more than 70 practical, ready-to-use lessons.
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This book offers teachers practical, classroom-ready advice to take their teaching of conventions to the next level. Whitney and Jeff offer planning moves to teach students about any convention, and dozens of lessons that are already planned...the advice they give is to always connect the teaching of conventions to craft and style, not just to memorize rules.
Jennifer Serravallo
Patterns of Power
Watch Jeff Anderson and Whitney La Rocca, coauthors of Patterns of Power, as they work in real classrooms to create sustainable instruction in the area of grammar and conventions.
