Getting It Right: Fresh Approaches to Teaching Grammar, Usage, and Correctness
Summary: Getting It Right demonstrates how individual teachers can teach grammar, usage, and correctness more successfully as well as how an entire school or department can work together to improve the teaching of writing.
In Getting It Right, Michael Smith and Jeffrey Wilhelm, director of the Boise State University Writing Project, offer fresh perspectives and engaging methods for teaching grammar and usage in the context of students' own writing. This book demonstrates how individual teachers can teach correctness more successfully as well as how an entire school or department can work together to improve the teaching of writing.
From Chapter One:
"In this book we want to share briefly what research has taught us about the teaching of grammar and then to share much more extensively the research-based principles that have guided our practice of teaching correct language use. We will argue that correctness is best taught when it is in the service of helping students be more engaged and powerful readers, writers, and learners. At each juncture we'll discuss how different teachers in different situations might put those same principles into practice to meet goals for student writing and language use, both in school and out in the world."
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