Bundlr - Spelling and Grammar Guide - 0 views
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Progressive Language Skills
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practice
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build on
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find out what has worked and do more of that
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foundational language skills and content
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new skills are best acquired when students notice and understand
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language acquisition
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Students must have a strong command of the grammar and usage of spoken and written standard English to succeed academically and professionally.
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grammar
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usage
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devise instructional approaches to replicate this success for other un-mastered language content and skills
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explicit instruction
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scaffold instruction
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build upon prior knowledge
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this comma and period inside the quotation marks business is strictly American usage. The British don't do it that way. They are inclined to place commas and periods logically rather than conventionally, depending on whether the punctuation belongs to the quotation or to the sentence that contains the quotation
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that this comma and period inside the quotation marks business is strictly American usage. The British don't do it that way.
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differentiate
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comprehensible
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oral language
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input
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pay attention to how you’re using the active and passive voices
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even more important is the matter of consistency
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usage issues
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skill and content areas
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we want to make sure our best feet are forward. That means making sure errors like typos or poor grammar don’t detract from what we have to say
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make a conscious effort to use them in a way that produces clear, direct, and compelling posts
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help the student practice skills and content already learned
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Teach language form and meaning concurrently.
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active listening
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inside the U.S., periods and commas go inside quotation marks
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Think about each sentence
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what do you want to emphasize?
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How can you construct a sentence that gets your point across and is engaging to read?
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The rules in American English are different from the rules in British English
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meaning influences form
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Form influences meaning
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In America, we use a hard-and-fast rule that was supposedly designed by compositors to protect the tiny commas and periods (1, 2). We always put periods and commas inside quotation marks.
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interactive discussion
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inform the student as to “what is correct and what is not” via immediate feedback
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provide a meaningful rationale
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analyze how writers and speakers use the language skill and content
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Some emphasize the verb as the key part of speech, showing students how the sentence is built around it and how vivid verbs create vivid sentences.
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It’s one thing to read about the rules, but another to put them into practice.
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When combining exclamation points and question marks with quotation marks, however, Americans follow the same logical system as the British. Where you place the other marks relative to the quotation mark depends on the context of the quotation.
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If the whole sentence, including the quotation, is a question or an exclamation, then the question mark or exclamation point goes outside the closing quotation mark; but if only the part inside the quotation marks is a question or exclamation, then the question mark or exclamation point goes inside the closing quotation mark.
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In Britain, they use rules that require the writer to determine whether the period or comma belong with the quotation or are part of the larger sentence.
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think about the function of voice when evaluating your writing
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In American English, periods and commas always go inside the closing quotation mark
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semicolons, colons, asterisks, and dashes always go outside the closing quotation mark
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question marks and exclamation points require that you analyze the sentence and make a decision based on context
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if you are an American, you need to keep your commas and periods inside your closing quotation marks, where they belong
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why, you may ask, do they belong there?
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Writing
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Spelling/Vocabulary
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only American printers were more attached to convenience than logic
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Grammar/Mechanics