Conventions and Craft, Grade 5: A Full Year of Literature-Based Micro-Workshops to Build Essential Understandings for Grammar, Sentence Structure & Wo

By Linda Hoyt

If you're looking for a lively, literature-infused alternative to traditional instruction in conventions, look no further than Conventions and Craft. This breakthrough resource provides a year's worth of instruction in the language skills writers need most--skills in grammar, sentence structure, punctuation and capitalization, word knowledge, and editing. One convention, or "understanding," is covered each week in a lesson cycle made up of five "micro-workshops" that take just 10 minutes a day Each grade-specific kit includes: - 192-page, spiral-bound Teacher's Guide - An anthology of 14 full-color short texts - 6 informational trade books by well-known nonfiction authors - Access to a companion website with assessment tools and videos of Linda Hoyt conducting model lessons - Sample Student Papers for use in lessons - A Skills Continuum inspired by CCSS, TEKS, and VSOL - Sample Year-Long Plans

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1338126601
• ISBN13: 9781338126600
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Scholastic Professional
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 4.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 13.8" x 15.2"
• Age Range: 10 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 5