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This 15-minute video shows how Jeff Anderson uses playful strategies and mentor text to engage writers in grammar and editing. In the "Apostrophe-thon," Jeff's sixth-grade students in San Antonio, Texas search through a mentor text excerpt to find examples of apostrophes and then cate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Anderson, Jeff
Other Authors: Power, Brenda
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Portland, ME : Stenhouse Publishers, 2008.
Series:Education in video.
Subjects:
Teaching > Methodology.
Classroom management.
Composition (Language arts) > Study and teaching.
Classes (Éducation) > Conduite.
Composition (Exercice littéraire) > Étude et enseignement.
Course Content
Writing
Educational.
Alexander Street Video.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Alexander Street Press)
Description
Summary:This 15-minute video shows how Jeff Anderson uses playful strategies and mentor text to engage writers in grammar and editing. In the "Apostrophe-thon," Jeff's sixth-grade students in San Antonio, Texas search through a mentor text excerpt to find examples of apostrophes and then categorize them as possessives or contractions based on a wall chart the class has compiled. Using real text, the students never fail to come up with some interesting examples such as "O'clock" and the two meanings of "they'd."
Physical Description:1 online resource (14 min.)
Playing Time:00:14:45
Audience:For teachers of Primary; Middle students.