權力模式－寫作和語言的慣例

Conventions of writing allow writers to specify the exact way a word or phrase should be interpreted by the reader. They help the reader understand exactly what the writer had in mind. When you can't be there to read your writing to someone else, conventions can help do the reading for you. Students study authentic texts and come to recognize these “patterns of power”—the essential grammar conventions that readers and writers require to make meaning. My lessons introduce 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. I always connect the teaching of conventions to craft and style, not just to memorize rules.  My lessons offer teachers practical, classroom-ready advice to take their teaching of conventions to the next level. I incorcorate children's literature and PowerPoints.

Lesson 1- Mercy Me!- Capitalizing Names
Lesson 2- I am Capital Worthy- Capitalizing the Pronoun I
Lesson 3- Time of Your Life- Capitalizing Months and Days
Lesson 4- Entitled to Be Capitalized- Capitalizing Titles
Lesson 5- A Crayon Has a Reason- Capitalizing Letter Openings and Closing
Lesson 6- Spending Your Allowance- Know Your Nouns
Lesson 7- Give Peas a Chance- Plural Nouns
Lesson 8- Pluralisn- More Than One Noun
Lesson 9- Verbs Move- Verbs Mean Action 
Lesson 10- Tell It Like It Is- Verbs of Being ( Are, Was, Were, Be, Been, and Am 
Lesson 11- Highly Irregular- Nonconforming Verbs
Lesson 12- Subject/ Verb- The Teeth of a Sentence
Lesson 13- More Than Anything- Simple Sentences
Lesson 14- Let's Eat- Apostrophe Ownership
Lesson 15- Standing in for a Crayon- Pronouns and Antecedents