STANDARD ENGLISH CONVENTIONS: SCAFFOLDING NOTES

This compact review of Standard English Conventions for quick referencing is perfect for teaching Sentence Structure, Usage Practices and Punctuation. These no prep scaffolding notes would be great for ELA lessons or ELA centers. Your students will love this information that is well-planned for student engagement.

After attempting these New Bloom’s Taxonomy-based activities students will be able to:

• Identify and solve the common errors made using double negatives and formal or informal structure.
• Identify and solve common errors made using punctuation to clarify meaning; and analyse the given text to demonstrate the accurate usage of homophones, homographs, homonyms and relative pronouns.
• Identify inappropriate shifts in verb tenses, verb moods, verb voices, grammatical cases, person, number and find solutions to rectify the errors.
• Exercise error identification to ensure pronoun clarity; distinction between determiners, contractions and adverbs; subject-verb agreement; related noun agreement and logical comparison.
• Place phrases and clauses within a sentence, recognising and correcting misplaced and dangling modifiers.
• Revise sentence fragments, run-on sentences, parallel structure, coordination and subordination to create grammatically complete sentences.

This download includes:

• SN 1: Double Negatives and Formal and Informal Structure
• SN 2: Homophones vs Homographs vs Homonyms
• SN 3: Frequently Confused Relative Pronouns
• SN 4: End Punctuation and Unnecessary Punctuation
• SN 5: Common Punctuation Errors
• SN 6: Shifts in Tense, Mood, Voice, Person, Number and Case
• SN 7: Distinction between determiners, contractions and adverbs.
• SN 8: Pronoun Clarity
• SN 9: Related Noun Agreement, Subject-verb Agreement and Logical Comparison
• SN 10: Misplaced Modifiers
• SN 11: Dangling Modifiers
• SN 12: Sentence Fragments
• SN 13: Run-on Sentences
• SN 14: Coordination vs Subordination
• SN 15: Grammatical Parallelism
• SN 16: Standard English Conventions Rubrics