Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.  ~Author Unknown

Lessons for Conventions

Download the following lessons or click on links for targetted grammar /style issues. Consider using this document as a single page (front and back) model and cover the top issues which are the most common errors in high school through college writing.

Capitalization

Clauses

Dialogue and Quotation Marks

Fragments

Parts of Speech Review

Punctuation

Verb Tense

	TIP
	Teach conventions throughout the year based on student papers. If you collect a paper each week and target a single skill, then post that single skill on the board with references to extra help, that should be the only time you teach it. By the end of the year you can cover 36 lessons from their own writing--more than enough. Several will need a repeat lesson, but hold students accountable for learning those skills on a weekly basis and USE student papers as your guide for what to teach.

• Check out The English Teacher's Friend collection of 30 Powerpoints CD These come in all formats so you can edit/adapt as you need to with your class. 20+ grammar/style issues for convention lessons.

• Education Northwest has an extensive site for six traits materials, lessons, sample papers, and rubrics.

• OWL - The Online Writing Lab at Pudue University provides lots of resources for wiritng issues.  

 Documents

One Page Grammar/style issues 

Student Version of Six Traits Rubric

Proofreading Marks