Jeremy Hyler, Troy Hicks

From Texting to Teaching

Grammar Instruction in a Digital Age

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Produktbeschreibung

Don¿t blame technology for poor student grammar; instead, use technology intentionally to reach students and actually improve their writing!

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 172mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9781138949287
• ISBN-10: 1138949280
• Artikelnr.: 48213549

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Hyler is a middle school English teacher and a teacher consultant for the Chippewa River Writing Project, a satellite site of the National Writing Project. He is co-author with Troy Hicks on Create, Compose, Connect: Reading, Writing, and Learning with Digital Tools (Routledge, 2014). Troy Hicks is a Professor of English and education at Central Michigan University, and Director of the Chippewa River Writing Project. He has authored or co-authored nine books, and over 30 journal articles and book chapters for teachers and other educators.

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on the Book Dedication Acknowledgements Meet the Authors Foreword by Liz Kolb Chapter 1 - What
s the Matter with the Teaching of Grammar? * The Great Grammar Debate, Part 1: 1890s to 1990s * The Great Grammar Debate, Part 2: 100 Years and Counting * The Great Grammar Debate, Part 3: Here Comes the Common Core * Rethinking Grammar Instruction in a Single Year: A Guide to the Rest of the Book Chapter 2: An Approach to Teaching Grammar with Digital Tools * What the Research Says: The (Non) Effects of Text Speak * Redefining Grammar Instruction in a Digital Age * Triple E Framework: Engage, Enhance, Extend * Tools of the Trade: Technologies for Digital Grammar Instruction * Beginner: Getting Started with Screen Capture, Screencasting, and Annotation * Intermediate: Sharing Media and Assessing Students
Understanding * Expert: Producing and Publishing More Enriched Media * And...We
re Off... Ready, Tech, Go! Chapter 3: Learning the Parts of Speech with Flipped Lessons * What is Flipping the Classroom, Exactly? * Critiques of the Flipped Model * Digital Tools for Flipping Grammar * Building a Flipped Video Lesson * Working Through the Video: Steps for Student * Using Flipped Videos from Other Sources * Breaking it Down: Pronouns of the Personal Type * Before the Flipped Lesson * During the Flipped Lesson * After the Flipped Lesson * Building a Personal Grammar Guide * Adverbs and Adjectives * Final Thoughts and What
s Next Chapter 4: Learning Sentence Style with Formal and Informal Writing * Code Switching * Compound, Complex, and Complete: Making Sentences Matter * Sentence Combining with Lino * I Tawt I Taw a Tweet Sentence * Sentence Hacking * Putting Lexile Leveling to Use for Writers * What
s Next Chapter 5: Enlivening Vocabulary * The Struggle is Real * Building Vocabulary with Quizlet * Building "Study Sets" in Quizlet * Building Toward Assessment with Quizlet * Extensions for Quizlet * Breathing Life into Vocabulary with Video * The Vocabulary Video Assignment * Extensions and Adaptations * Student Vocabulary Growth Over Time * Final Thoughts Chapter 6
Mastering Mechanics: Capitalization and Punctuation * Capitalization * The Dreaded Pronoun: "i" * Capitalization Extensions * The Paradox of Punctuation * Taking Time to Pause with a Comma * Is it a Period? Is it a Comma? No, it
s a Semicolon! * Extensions and Adaptations * Final Thoughts Chapter 7 - Assessing Grammar in a Digital Age * From Texting to Teaching: Four Tips * Dealing with Assessments * Summative Assessment through Portfolios * Student Reflections * Students Raise Their Voices: Asking For and Implementing Their Feedback Afterword: Navigating Your Own Grammatical Journey References