STANDARD ENGLISH CONVENTIONS: LESSON AND RESOURCES

A unit lesson plan with 6 sessions on teaching and learning resources of Standard English Conventions - Sentence Structure, Punctuation and Usage - based on New Bloom’s Taxonomy.

After completing this unit students will be able to:
SESSION 1 - REMEMBERING - Recall and list the conventions of sentence structure.
SESSION 2 - UNDERSTANDING - Order and group the conventions of punctuation.
SESSION 3 - APPLYING - Examine and discover the conventions of language usage.
SESSION 4 - ANALYSING - Analyse and demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing.
SESSION 5 - EVALUATING - Assess and demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English punctuation and spelling when writing.
SESSION 6 - CREATING - Use knowledge of the language and its conventions when writing.

This download includes:
SESSION 1: REMEMBERING - RECALL-LIST
EXERCISE 1 - Describe the concept of syntax, defining it as the arrangement of words into phrases, clauses and sentences.
SESSION 2: UNDERSTANDING - ORDER-GROUP
EXERCISE 2 - Classify and explain various forms of punctuation to signal various relationships within and between sentences.
SESSION 3: APPLYING - EXAMINE-DISCOVER
EXERCISE 3 - Construct and complete the rules one must follow when writing in Standard English.
SESSION 4: ANALYSING - ANALYSE-DEMONSTRATE
EXERCISE 4 - Recognise and correct sentence formation problems and inappropriate shifts in sentence construction.
SESSION 5: EVALUATING - ASSESS-DEMONSTRATE
EXERCISE 5 - Judge and conclude problematic punctuation and add punctuation to clarify meaning.
SESSION 6: CREATING - INTEGRATE-REARRANGE
EXERCISE 6 - Integrate knowledge and skills associated with common practices in formal well-edited English writing and create new sentences.
DIFFERENTIATION
EXERCISE 7 - Demonstrate the knowledge of the language and its conventions in writing.
EXTENSIONS:
EXERCISE 8 - Answer the following questions to demonstrate your knowledge of Standard English Conventions.
PLENARY:
EXERCISE 9 - Answer the following questions to demonstrate your knowledge of Standard English Conventions.
HOME LEARNING:
EXERCISE 10 - Answer the following questions to demonstrate your knowledge of Standard English Conventions.
EXERCISE 11 - Identify the errors in the use of determiners in the following passages and write the correction.
EXERCISE 12 - Identify the errors in the use of verb tenses in the following passages and write the correction.
EXERCISE 13 - Identify the errors in the use of modals in the following passages and write the correction.
EXERCISE 14 - Identify the errors in the use of non-finite verbs in the following passages and write the correction.
EXERCISE 15 - Identify the errors in the use of sentence connectors in the following passages and write the correction.