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Introduction: Where Do Reading and Writing Meet? |
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Part 1 Getting Started with the Patterns-of-Power Process |
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Chapter 1 Into Planning: What Do You Need to Do Before Teaching the Invitations? |
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Chapter 2 Into the Classroom: How Do You Teach Conventions with the Invitations Process? |
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Chapter 3 Into Application: How Do You Ensure Writers Apply What They Know? |
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Part 2 Into the Patterns-of-Power Lesson Sets |
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The Power of Sentences: Why Do Writers and Readers Use Sentences? |
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Chapter 4 What Do Capital Letters Do? |
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4.1 Mercy Me! Capitalizing Names (Exemplar Lesson) |
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4.2 I Am Capitalization Worthy: Capitalizing the Pronoun I |
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4.3 Time of Your Life: Capitalizing Months and Days |
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4.4 Entitled to Be Capitalized: Capitalizing Titles |
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4.5 A Crayon Has Reasons: Capitalization in Letter Openings and Closings |
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4.6 History Is of Capital Importance: Capitalizing Historical Periods and Events |
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4.7 Honor Everyone's Heritage: Capitalizing Nationalities and Languages |
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Chapter 5 What Do Nouns Do? |
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5.1 Spending Your Allowance: Know Your Nouns |
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5.2 Capital Offense: When to Capitalize, When Not To |
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5.3 One More Mountain to Climb: Proper Nouns |
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5.4 Give Peas a Chance: Plural Nouns |
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5.5 Pluralism: More Than One Noun |
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5.6 Add Groups to the Noun Collection: Collective Nouns |
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Chapter 6 What Do Verbs Do? |
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6.1 Verbs Move: Verbs Mean Action |
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6.2 Tell It Like It Is (Are, Was, Were, Be, Been, and Am): The Verbs of Being |
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6.3 Have You Got the Time? Verb Tense |
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6.4 Highly Irregular: Nonconforming Verbs |
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6.5 Rain Pummeled the Ground Versus The Ground Was Pummeled by Rain: Finding Your Active Voice |
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Chapter 7 What Do Sentences Do? |
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7.1 Subject-Verb Chomp: The Teeth of a Sentence |
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7.2 Subject and Verb Plus One: Adding to the Basic Noun and Verb |
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7.3 More Than Anything: Just Being Simple Sentences |
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Chapter 8 What Do End Marks Do? |
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8.1 Choral Read Our Way to the End: Punctuation Voices |
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8.2 Never Fear: End Marks Are Here! |
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8.3 You Finish My Sentences: Readers Need Periods |
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8.4 Messy Room: Question Marks and Exclamation Points |
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8.5 Advanced End Mark Exploration |
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The Power of Pairs: Why Do Writers Use Pairs? |
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Chapter 9 What Do Apostrophes Do? |
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9.1 Let's Eat: Apostrophes of Restaurant Ownership |
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9.2 Apostrophe Family Reunion: Contractions and Possessives |
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9.3 Apostrophes Look Like Fingernails: Contractions |
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Chapter 10 What Do Pronouns Do? |
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10.1 Standing In for a Crayon: Pronouns and Antecedents |
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10.2 Magic Tree House Pronouns: Possession |
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10.3 Indefinitely Save Me a Seat: Everybody Loves Indefinite Pronouns |
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Chapter 11 How Do Verbs and Nouns Agree? |
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11.1 They All Saw a Verb: Verbs Make Friends with Nouns |
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11.2 Everyday Agreement: Nouns and Verbs |
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11.3 Clothes Cloze: Finding Verbs That Agree in Number and Person |
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Chapter 12 Which Punctuation Comes in Pairs? |
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12.1 Nerdy Talk: Quotation Marks |
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12.2 Judy Moody Ring: Dialogue |
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12.3 Are They In or Out? Dialogue and End Marks |
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12.4 Insects (Gross!): Parentheses (Provide Extra Information) |
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The Power of Details: How Do Writers Add Detail to Their Sentences? |
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Chapter 13 What Do Adjectives Do? |
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13.1 What Kind of Chimpanzee? Adjectives Answer Questions |
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13.2 Good Enough: Adjectives Before Nouns |
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13.3 Ink a Link: Using Adjectives After the Verb |
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13.4 Photographic Memory: Crafting Adjectives |
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13.5 The Describing Verb: Showing an Action or Use with -ing Adjectives |
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Chapter 14 What Do Comparatives and Superlatives Do? |
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14.1 It Takes Two: Time to Compare |
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14.2 The Anaconda: Superlatives Are the Biggest |
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14.3 Youngest or Oldest: Time to Decide a Winner |
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Chapter 15 What Do Adverbs Do? |
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15.1 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: Adverbs Remain Timely |
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15.2 How'd You Do It? Adverbs That Show How |
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15.3 Sooner or Later: Adverbs of Time |
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15.4 Here and There: Adverbs of Place |
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15.5 Give Me Details on Where, When, and Why It Happened: Relative Adverbs |
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Chapter 16 What Do Prepositions Do? |
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16.1 A Phrase I'm Going Through: PrePOSITIONS |
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16.2 You Rang? When and Where? |
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16.3 One Prepared Pig: Which One? |
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The Power of Combining: Why Do Writers Combine and Connect Words and Sentences? |
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Chapter 17 What Do Conjunctions Do? |
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17.1 Sticks and Stones: The Power of And |
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17.2 Coordinating Outfits: Using And to Combine |
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17.3 Feeling Squirrelly: Using Though to Contrast |
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17.4 Give Me a Reason: Using Because to Show Why |
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17.5 What a Choice: Using Or to Show Options |
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17.6 There's a Negative Correlation: Neither...Nor |
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Chapter 18 Why Do Writers Use Compound Sentences? |
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18.1 Curious and Studied: Combining Sentences |
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18.2 Hearing Voices: Compound Sentences 101 |
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18.3 The Draw of a Compound Sentence: Coordinating Contrast |
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18.4 So...: What Compound Sentences Cause and Effect |
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18.5 Driving Miss Crazy: The Choice Or Gives |
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Chapter 19 Why Do Writers Use the Serial Comma? |
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19.1 Catalogue a Frog: Items in a List |
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19.2 Whatever Rings Your Smell: Items in a List |
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19.3 Sisters, Brothers, or Friends: A Series of Things They Do |
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Chapter 20 Why Do Writers Use Complex Sentences? |
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20.1 If You Give a Writer a Model: The Conditional Subordinate |
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20.2 AAAWWUBBIS: From Garbage to Treasure |
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20.3 Robot AAAWWUBBIS: As You Know |
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20.4 Before You Lose Your Nerve: AAAWWUBBIS Continued |
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20.5 Plenty of Raisins for No Comma: When the AAAWWUBBIS Isn't First |
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20.6 That Which Made Me Sick: What Relative Pronouns Clause |
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Conclusion: Look Up! |
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Professional Bibliography |
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Children's Literature Bibliography |
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Index |
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