Chapter Two, "Putting Conventions in Our In-Tray: Planning Grammar Curriculum," is readable here in pdf format as the full-chapter excerpt from the book, The Power of Grammar: Unconventional Approaches to the Conventions of Language. The authors introduce direct instruction, inquiry, and apprenticeship in order to facilitate teachers in their planning of both grammar lessons and grammar curriculum. The authors look both at individual lessons that model direct instruction and at case studies in inquiry and apprenticeship, considering all the while how grammar instruction fits in writing process and writing workshop. Additionally, some yearlong plans, broken down into school-calendar months, are offered. The authors discuss teaching fluency and teaching writing as well as where reading and writing research (including research by Nancie Atwell, Lucy Calkin, Katie Wood Ray, Heather Lattimer, and Donald Murray) fit into the whole grammar picture.

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