Grammar Review

Ongoing Homework: Students should remember to read for thirty minutes each evening. Remember there are no restrictions on what you choose to read, but please remember to record the date, the title of what you read, and how many pages you read.

Today in language arts the 6th graders had a grammar review. The students discussed their attitudes towards studying grammar, and towards grammar’s relationship to writing. Some of the students stated that thinking about the rules of grammar was challenging, and sometimes even annoying. We all recognized that sometimes it felt as if grammar got in the way of the creative flow of writing.

Using the SMART Board, we created a piece of unpunctuated writing, and then set about punctuating it in order to get it to say what we wanted it to. In this way, we explored the role of punctuation in organizing and ordering the words we write. We then too a look at recognizing conjunctions, and the role they play as a part of speech. The students were asked to write their own sentences using conjunctions in various ways.