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Publisher
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
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Grade
3rd - 6th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Number of Slides
25
Instructional Strategy
Writing
Year
2010
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Conventions Chart

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Help your young writers pay close attention to their conventions and move toward revision with a straightforward chart. Learners can analyze 11 sentences on this page by noting down the first letter in each, the first of words in each, words that may be misspelled, a grammar note, the number of words in each, and the end mark.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

revising writing, revision, sentence variety, sentence structure, punctuation, spelling, writing conventions

Additional Tags

writing conventions, revision, writing revision, Grammar, spelling, punctuation, sentence variety, english language arts

Instructional Ideas

  • Use this to pick apart an essay; similar to a checklist, it will show pupils what they need to fix (punctuation, grammar, spelling, sentence variety, etc.)
  • When practicing writing complete sentences, have individuals use this chart to track their own writing and progress

Common Core

L.3.1.a L.3.2.a L.4.1.a L.4.2.a L.5.1.a L.5.2.a L.6.1.a L.6.2.a

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