1. Signs of Quality Writing:
Integrating grammar and conventions during the writing process
Road To Success
Leslie Fitzgerald
Pueblo School for Arts & Sciences
Southern Colorado Writing Project Teacher Consultant
MrsFitzReads@gmail.com

2. DOL
Please find and edit the following sentences in your packet on page 2.
The old woman remembered a swan she had bought many years ago in Shanghai for a foolish sum.
If I draw a cartoon of a flower, then every man, woman, and child in the world can look at it and say, Thats a flower.
The seats were big and soft like a sofa, and there was a little white cat in the back window whose eyes lit up when the car stopped or turned.
3. Writing & Discussion
4. Language Common Core Standards
http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf
5. Isolationvs.Integration
Isolation or Part to Whole 61%
Integration or Whole to Part 39%
Adapted from Mark Pennington & Harry R. Noden
6. Meeting in the Middle
7. 8. Choose the shortest mentor text possible, preferably a single sentence.
Invite students to create an example together using the mentor text as a model.
Send students back to their drafts to practice the technique.
Seek out high quality student writing to highlight.
What Does Integration Look Like?
Visualize
Co-Create
Apply
Share
Watch for opportunities to review and practice new skills multiple times.
Repeat
9. AAAWWUBBIS
10. Subordinating Conjunction

Creating a mnemonic device gives students

a scaffold for new knowledge.

AAAWWUBBIS

After
Although
As
When
While
Until
Before
Because
Is
Since
Since U Been Gone
AAAWWUBBIS
Jeff Anderson, Mechanically Inclined
11. Student Samples
You Cant Murder Murder
Through the killing of Osama bin Laden, there is the relief of many people.Osama was a killera murderer.Then when we murder a murderer, how does that change anything?Dont get me wrong I am personaly relieved as well that this man is dead.For he started this awful war, and now we really dont have to worry as much anymore.In Dr. Martin Luther King Jrs speech, Where Do We Go From Here?, he says, You cant murder murder.Yes, we can murder a murdererbut killing and hatred and disaster will continue.
*As we continue into our future history as a country, we need to look into the positive, not the negative.*
*Since Osama has been gone, we can breathe a sigh of relief.*
12. Student Sample
Fun times, happy times.All the good food that there.The food that is getting ready to be eaten.All the memories of people who have gone before us.All the fun times we have had with them.There fun times we have cherished together.All their favorite things are up on the alter.Their faith is up there.They have the mother Mary of the catholic faith.
All the memories I have of Carla.Was a central fan.She always came by and honked like crazy, central won the bell.Carla always loved baseball.She loved to sing take me out to the ball game.Carla passed away on October 26 2005, at St. Mary Corwin.She was more than my cousin; she was like an auntie to me.
*Because she had pass I can pass the mories of her to Arina, Hayle, Alex, and Abrey.*
*Is there I time where I will ever forget Carla?*
13. How Can I Use This?
14. Experts Say
Steve Graham & Dolores Perin Writing Next
15. Select content area vocabulary terms students need to understand and apply through writing.
Have students pull a vocabulary word from a hat and keep the word secret.
Give students five minutes to write a story that includes the word.Their goal is to disguise the word by utilizing other content knowledge & vocabulary.
Hide the Part of Speech
16. Student Samples
17. Student Sample
18. Why Would I Use This?
19. Experts Say
NCTE Guideline: Some Questions and Answers About Grammar
20. Grammar Beyond Parts of Speech
Constance Weaver Grammar to Enrich & Enhance Writing
21. Choose, or have students select, a challenging sentence structure from a text related to your content.
Students divide the sentence into meaningful chunks and illustrate how the chunks are related.
Sentence Chunking
22. Student Sample
23. Student Sample
24. How Would I Use This?
25. Experts Say
Constance Weaver Grammar to Enrich & Enhance Writing
26. Image Grammar
Look at this image and write a sentence about what you see.
27. Image Grammar
28. Painting with Participles: An ing verb placed at the beginning or end of a sentence.
Painting with Absolutes: combining a noun with an ing participle.
Painting with Appositives: a noun that adds a second image to the preceding noun.
Image Grammar Brush Strokes
Harry R. NodenImage Grammar
29. Image Grammar
Write a new sentence about this image using participles, absolutes, or appositives.
30. Student Sample
31. Student Sample
32. Experts Say
33. Express-Lane Edits
Students return to a draft and spend two minutes reading their work from end to beginning searching for one type of error (eg. Apostrophe, Comma, Spelling, Capitalization etc).
Jeff Anderson Mechanically Inclined
34. Student Sample
35. Experts Say
Jeff Anderson Mechanically Inclined